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Practical Religious Unity There has been much talk about religious in recent years, yet little of practical significance has been achieved. A chief reason is that the movement has been backward looking. It has tried to find a basis of unity in harmonizing theological creeds which evolved in the dim past—in a wholly different Intellectual age of man. Relatively minor theological differences still are idequate to keep Jew, Catholic and Protestant apart, jften in savage controversy and conflict which extends to the political realm. If these groups would project their interests into the solution of those problems of social justice today on which there can be no differences of opinion among reasonable men. union would not be long in coming. The problems of the nature of God and tire means of salvation will gat on dividing religious groups for centuries, but the issues of common humanity most certainly would hasten harmony, good will and a common front. A splendid example is afforded by the current announcement in the press that a religious committee is being formed to agitate for the release of Mooney and Billings. Bishop Francis J. McConnell Is chairman, and the committee numbers among its members such eminent representatives of different faiths as Charles K. Gilbert, Harry Emerson Fosdick, W. Russell Bowie, Sherwood Eddy, John Ha>nes Holmes, Btephen S. Wise and John A. Ryan. Few selections of men in the country would be harder to get together on purely doctrinal grounds, but they can unite with enthusiasm on a plan to end this notorious judicial lynching in California. Let this be a precedent for further developments. '2O, ’2l, ’23, ’24 —’3l In 1920, Herbert Hoover was vice-chairman of President Wilson’s industrial conference which recommended "enactment of appropriate legislation by congress making provision for an employment clearing house under federal control.” In 1921 Herbert Hoover was chairman of President Hardings conference on unemployment which recommended "an adequate permanent system of employment officers.” In 1923 Herbert Hoover, as secretary of commerce, appointed a committee on business cycles and unemployment which recommended "a national system of employment bureaus.” In 1924 Herbert Hoover appointed a committee on seasonal operations in the construction industries, which, in its report, called attention to the recommendations of the 1921 conference regarding a permanent system of unemployment exchanges. In 1929 Herbert Hoover became President of the United states. Since then there has been pending in congress the Wagner employment agency bill to enact into law Herbert Hoover's recommendations of the last ten years. During that time the presidential hand has not been lifted in its behalf. Instead, Hoover's new secretary of labor, Doak, an advocate of the Wagner bill until he took office, has drawn a substitute measure! And the administrationcontrolled house is preparing to pass it. The substitute bill is a futile and meaningless collection of words. It provides for nothing that could not be done under existing law. Playing politics with human misery is just as reprehensible now as it was a month ago, when President Hoover misdirected the phrase at the senate. Capone on the Spot Detroit s latest contribution to the conquest of crime is the prohibition of the sale of gangster biographies. Lives of A1 Capone have been put on the spot by the police commissioner. That will not bother Al, of course. Busy as .he is at the moment getting free publicity directing soup kitchens in Chicago from his Florida arsenalmansion, Scarfacc probably won’t even hear of the Detroit crusade. Anyway, he is so used to being put on the spot In one way and another that the news probably only would bore him. The Detroit method of fighting gangsters impresses us as a clear case of cribbing from some volume of anthropology. It was the custom of certain savage tribes to conquer an enemy by making an image of him and then destroying the image. Less Criminal The administration is trying to prettify prohibition. Killings by dry agents, hootch poisoning by the government, and wire-tapping by law officers made the public question the nobility of the experiment. Now the government is curbing some of its criminal methods. Dry agents are shooting innocent motorists less frequently. People still are dying from liquor poisoned before Jan. 1, but since that date the government is spiking alcohol in a way to sicken without killing the drinker. The attorney-general told a congressional committee Thursday that he had issued an order against wire-tapping by federal agents. Unfortunately, he had to confess that the order is only temporary, and that exceptions to the order are allowed in cases approved by bureau chiefs. These half-way reforms are all to the good. When the reforms are completed, they may revive public respect for the governments, sadly weakened by its own legal lawlessness. But they can not convert the country to prohibition. Too much liquor has passed over the dam since the eighteenth amendment was forced on the country for the people to believe that the unenforce•ble law can be enforced—or that it should be enforced. The Price of Bread Chain bakeries in Washington and elsewhere are lowering the price of broad, aa the result of an investigation by a senate committee under Senator Capper. This is as it should be, with so many people hungry and the price of wheat about half what it was when the bread prices were established. And with so many men out of work, congress reluctantly giving help, and then only to persons outside cities, while our elevators are bursting with grain, a quotation from Thomas Hood comes in mind. It’s more than a century old—and Hood, strangely enough, was rated a humorist as well as a poet: “Oh, God! That bread should be so dear. And flesh and blood so cheap.” The Myth of a Peaceful Nation Every state loves to represent itself as composed of a peace-loving people who have been attacked regularly by brutal and aggressive neighbors. These they have hurled back sadly but effectively, bea tint their Sf ords into ploughshares once the job was overt The United States has been conspicuous in develop-

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ing the pacifist legend. Fourth of July orators dwell at length upon our always having been on the defensive, repelling ardent but unwise invaders. Pompous publicists even have gone so far as to declare that we never have fought an aggressive war. Historians know well enough that such talk is nonsense, as much for us as for other states. But the man on the street may regard the historian # as a Bolshevik, dreamer, or impractical man. Hence it is gratifying to find a brave dog of war like General John K. O'Ryan showing the courage to come out candidly and tell the truth about our war record. He shows that all our foreign wars except the World war have been wars of aggression. We started the Revolutionary war and refused George Ill’s offer of conciliation. We made war on Tripoli because we ! would not recognize her right to tax foreign shipping, j We assailed the mother country to grab Canada i in 1812. We attacked Mexico, though, it must be ad- j mitted,after great provocation, and wrested vast ter- j ritory from her. We attacked Spain in the Spanish- ! American war after Spain had conceded all of McKinley’s demands. Hence the rest of the world looks askance at our pacifist pretensions: "Europeans, pointing to our military history, accord us the world's record for effective military conquest within so short a period of time. They regard us as a people who, starting from scratch with a population of but 3,000,000 inhabiting a strip along the Atlantic seaboard, expanded themselves with the aid of aggressive warfare into more than a hundred million people, occupying vast and far-flung territories.” General O’Ryan might have added the World war to our list, for all fair-minded students have to admit that either we should not have fought, at all, or else should have defended our rights against both Britain and Germany. • In the light of this record, Europeans hardly can be expected to take too seriously our claim that we do not need the league or world court to be good. At Last—A Long Last Congress should pass quickly and President Hoover should sign the Muscle Shoals compromise bill agreed upon after ten years of dispute. The bill is not everything everybody had hoped for; but it is a fair compromise. It provides that Muscle Shoals shall be operated for the benefit of farmers by being utilized for the manufacture of cheap fertilizer. It allows the concern which leases the fertilizer facilities to have preferential rights ir. a large block of electric power. At the same time, it retains for the people who paid for Muscle Shoals, the hydro-electric power facilities there; and it provides, for that, great east Tennessee development, Cove Creek dam. It keeps this electric energy out of the hands of private power interests, and allows the government to build transmission lines to states, counties, and municipalities within transmission distance. Unless members’ convictions are overridden by party leaders, the house Mill approve the compromise, this newspaper believes. Senate approval thereafter generally *s conceded. The President should be thankful that congress is prepared to lift this old problem off his shoulders. If he wants to help the country generally, the south and the farmers in particular, Hoover will sign the compromise. It’s surprising how much red t*pe is necessary to budge, obsolete blue law. Skating rinks, says a news item, are to have colored ice. Will hockey teams henceforth win or lose by a shade? One of the cruel facts of life is that after you muster up nerve to go to the dentist, he takes it from you. ■ "If I had the wings of an angel - ’ is the prisoner’s song. It also might go as the pedestrian's. A detective has become a film director In Hollywood. Leave it to him to know what goes on behind the scenes. Some New York magistrates,. like a third-string ball player, seem to serve no other beneficial purpose than warming the bench.

REASON

SECRETARY MELLON’S marvelous and sympathetic insight into the needs of the veterans of the World war causes one to speculate as to which front he fought on in the late struggle. Did he take the Argonne forest, or was it Metz. a a a Those great bankers who are disposed to chide Mr. Mellon for his generosity should bear in mind that it is only natural for him to wish to make another appropriation for his comrades every time he removes his B. V. D.s and oounts his scars. a a a WHILE the question of taxation is before the house, permit us to suggest that we take half the fortune of every American heiress who invests in a foreign title, this brilliant suggestion coming to us as we read that Kathryn Cornell of Oklahoma, rated at $3,000,000, has just closed her option on Count Drohojowski of Poland. a a a If there's any good in mud baths, Mayor Thompson and Judge Lyle of Chicago should be immune from rheumatism the rest of their lives, after this present campaign. tt tt ft r Charley Chaplin’s publicity agent says he declined an offer to make twenty-six radio talks for $650,000. There are just a few of us now filling the ether who get this much cut of it. a a a SECRETARY OP STATE STIMSON talked to the Blackfoot Indians in the sign language the other day at Washington. It would have been a whole lot better if Stimson had talked like this to Mussolini about the Butler case. a a a Ambassador Guggenheim in Havana has handed a problem to President Hoover by importing ninetyeight cases of booze from France. Our embassy property in Havana is “American soil” and if Guggenheim can have ninety-eight cases, it’s natural for others on American soil to become peeved when they're pinched for having one small pint. - mam WHEN the Chinese of Cleveland recently dedicated a $300,000 building they shot off a lot of firecrackers to expel the evil spirits. President Hoover doubtless would like to perform the same ceremony in the senate chamber. m m m The authorities of Mexico claim that earthquakes cause ladies to rush into matrimony for protection. The difference between Mexico And the United States is that down there the earthquake precedes the ceremony and up here it follows it.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

For a Country That Claims to Favor Fair Play and Good Will, We Are Doing Some Queer Things. El PASO, Tex., Feb. 20.—Mexicans charge that they are being forced to leave El Paso, either by United States immigration officers or by persons posing as such. One Mexican declares that he was stopped on the street by two men who told him they were inspectors; that he was asked for his immigration papers, which were torn up when he handed them over; that he was told he would be put in jail for thirty days if he didn’t leave the country, and that, when he protested, the two men forced him into their automobile, carried him to within a few feet of the Santa Fe street bridge, dumped him out, and told him to beat it across the river and stay there. Both the Mexican consulate and the American Immigration authorities have started an investigation. Local opinion is inclined to believe that there may be some truth in the complaints, because of the feeling to which a tense labor situation has given rise. * u Policy is Silly EACH morning seme 1,800 Mexicans come across the two bridges from Juarez to El Paso, do a day’s work, for which they get an American day’s pay, and then go back in the evening to take advantage of the cheaper living conditions which prevail on their side of the river. Nor is such a condition confined to El Paso. You find it at Laredo, Brownsville, Detroit and Buffalo, as well as every other American city on the Mexican or Canadian border. whatever else may be said of it, it makes our immigration policy appear rather ridiculous. Though barring those out who would like to make permanent homes among us, become citizens of the country, and accept their share of responsibility for its protection and support, we let any oile get on the pay roll who lives near enough to go back and forth each day. BUS We’re the Monkeys lAM not arguing that the daily trek should be stopped, but it does seem as though we might do something one way or the other to make it more consistent with our general immigration policy. If we have a quota law., why not let it apply to everybody. And if such a law is intended to protect our own labor, why leave, the payroll to aliens who can work among us, while they eat and sleep under their own flag? The idea of restriction undoubtedly is sound, but why one kind for the Japanese, another kind for the Irish, and- still another kind for the Canadians and Mexicans? As between the two, isn’t that foreign labor which comes in for eight or ten hours each day more pernicious than that which once was imported for two or three years? As things now stand, it looks as though we were making fish out of some, foul out of others, and monkeys out of ourselves. B B U. S. Holds the Bag FOR a country that claims to be whole-heartedly in ' favor of peace, fair play, good will and a beter understanding among all people, we are doing some queer things, with our eighteenth amendment, our Grundy bill, our Japanese exclusion act, and our indifference to the world court. Yes, and don’t forget those debt settlements, by which we are standing in the way of general rehabilitation and thwarting the natural processes of reconstruction, and in which we once more treat some countries differently than we treat others. England pays in full, because she is too proud to ask favors. France pays less, because she is smart enough to measure our bluff. Italy pays less still, because we seem to have a peculiar weakness for jumping whenever Mussolini bares his teeth. Back of it all looms a vast, complicated and, perhaps, hopeless net work of paper obligations which is tying up international trade through the coagulation of gold in centers where it can do the least good. BUB We're in the Wrong WE’VE got the gold—more than we know what to do with—and double the credit for which we can find good security, yet the big idea seems to be that we must go on hoarding and accumulating, throwing up protective barricades and making it ever harder for those whom we ought to be helping for the sake of our own selfish interests, if nothing else. The depression, from which we barely have begun to emerge, is a warning. Though world-wide in scope, it was largely of American origin. We alone had the power to clear the channels of trade, but failed to exercise it. We alone had the credit with which to finance an obviously demoralized commerce, but failed to use it. We alone practically could have wiped the slate clean of those reparation and debt entanglements, but wouldn’t. We alone could have stopped the tariff, restriction, and embargo craze by setting the right kind of example, but, instead, we encouraged it.

Questions and Answers

What is the value of a United States 3-cent piece dated 1831? It is cataloged at 6 to 15 cents. Is there more than one city or town in the United States named New*York? No. When did the first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson die, and when did the President remarry? Mrs. Ellen Wilson died Ang. 14. 1914, and President Wilson married Mrs. Edith Galt, Dec. 18, 1915. Has Florida an income tax? The state constitution prohibits income or inheritance tax. Is'’ there a federal reserve bank in Cleveland. O.? n Yes.

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Foreign Trade Often Proves Chimera

BY ROBERT P. SCRIPPS EARLY in this century, and up to a few years ago, it was the theory of certain economists that when, in the United States, technological improvements in industry enabled per capita production to catch up with and surpass a population increasing at a diminishing rate, business would find a ready-mads “cushion” awaiting it in the form of an accelerated foreign trade. Early in the century, certain nations of Latin America were advancing rapidly in their civilization, with consequent increases in their demand for manufactured goods which long had come to be classed as necessities in this country. Even in the face of European competition, ours was an expanding trade with these countries. In the face of foreign competition, this trade generally was not so healthy just prior to 1914, but the World war, and the economic confusion in Europe following the war, gave it fresh impetus. Now, however, it is beginning to slack off again. B tt B THE New England states are full of abandoned shoe factories, for instance, that used to make shoes for the Argentine. Now Ar-

IT SEEMS TO ME

SOMEWHERE WEST OF THE HUDSON capacity I always have felt an obligatf&n to familiarize myself with the night life of any town. From a purely sociological point of view, of course. At first Tucson, Ariz., did not seem promising. Left to my own devices, the best I could scare up after midnight was a choice between the.. Coney Island dairy restaurant and the Pioneer lunchroom. I asked a native. "There’s always Nogales,” he said. "But that’s quite a distance, isn’t it?” I inquired. “Oh, no,” he answered. ‘lt’s only about sixty-eight miles, and almost any of the taxi men can get you there in a little over an hour.” “They can’t get me there that fast,” I remonstrated. “Not if they tell me beforehand.” B B B Break No Records EVENTUALLY I found a driver was willing to limit himself to sixty on the straightaways, with something off for caution on the curves. “Just loaf along, and try to take as much as an hour and a half,” were my instructions. I found the native had been guilty of exaggeration. Not as far as the speed of the taxi man went. That lived up to my worst expectations. But I should have caught the stress in the phrase, “about sixtyeight.” A southwestern’s “about” is more treacherous than a Kansan’s “mile.” Besides, nobody had mentioned the detours. Most of the way the roads are good, but there remain spots which keep Nogales from being precisely Tucson’s Harlem. After a vast roaring progress through a moonless night the driver turned to me and said, “Only three miles more and we’ll be in Nogales.” He had a nasty habit of turning around to impart information or to tell jokes while the speed was still breakneck. Fortunately no anecdote was current when it became necessary to jam down the brakes. The car pawed the air like a broncho and came down in an eddy of dust. “What’s the matter?” I asked. I was afraid it might be bandits, and in a fraction of a second I wondered whether column readeis could be induced to contribute anything to a ransom. I decided that this was unlikely and resolved to sell my life dearly. But there were no bandits. The driver pointed to a sign and cursed softly. It read, “Bridge down; use detour for Nogales.” BBS A Long Trail THIS seemed something less than utterly tragic. Asa veteran of the Boston Post road, I’ve met detours in my time quite calmly. I had not yet cbme to a complete realization tha/.kout in Arizona they do things in a ,big way. "How long is the detour 3* I asked.

The Seven Days Wonder!

gentinian shoe factories are “rolling their own”—and of course with relatively cheap Argentine hides as their raw material. In the first decade of this century the cotton spinning business of Manchester, England, waxed very profitable indeed, turning Egyptian and Indian raw cotton into print goods for consumption, to a large extent, in those very countries. Now India, at least, has her own looms, and because of Indian cheap iabor, as well as because of the elimination of carrying charges, Manchester can not compete. Manchester looms, and Manchester spinners, are idle. It is true Manchester capital and Manchester management largely have financed and organized the Indian spinning industry, and that considerable profits come home to a few individuals who maintain at least legal residence in that smoky city, but this benefits Manchester laborers and tradesmen to a very slight degree. The city, as such, is in a decidedly bad way. tt B tt IT is interesting to reflect that the English cotton-s Dinning industry experienced a similar period of prosperity, followed by depression, preceding and succeeding the de-

“Well,” said the driver, “of course, we’ll have to go over the mountains now. I should say it was about twenty-one miles.” We were just barely holding our own. For a moment I wondered whether it would not be quicker to turn toward New York and make for Tony's. Then my iron will asserted itself. ‘ Drive over the mountain,” j I said in a chill, steel voice. It was, as I have remarked, a moonless night, or there would have j been less chill, less steel and no : detour. During the subsequent thirtythree miles I was aware of the fact that we seemed to be turning considerably, but I was happily ignorant of what lay below and the manner in which the daring young- j ster overlooked the frequent sign “Soft Shoulders.” 0 Below—oh, far below—the valley turned and twisted. Around abend we slid, and then we saw the lights of Nogales, twin town of the southwest. A little lane called International street draws a hairline be- 1 tween two divergent civilizations. Law and language are split by

FftCCiAWI&THe-

J. JEFFERSON’S BIRTH ✓ February 20.

ON Feb. 20, 1829, Joseph Jefferson, one of the most famous of all American actors, was bom at Philadelphia. He was the third actor of this name in a family of actors and managers. He made his first stage appearance at the age of 3 and throughout his early youth he underwent all the hardships connected with theatrical touring in those days. He was 19 when he made his first pronounced success as Asa Trenchared In “Our American Cousin.” This play proved to be the turning point of his career. A year later Jefferson made a dramatic version of Rip Van Winkle and acted it with success at 'Washington. In 1865 the play was given its permanent form by Dion Boucicault in London, where it ran 170 nights, with Jefferson in the leading part. Jefferson was one of the first to establish the traveling combinations which superseded the old system of local stock companies. He died in 1905.

Daily Thought

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.—Romans 6:12. Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God.—j Richard Alleine.

'vclopment of the industry in the United States. These are only two cases in point, but they serve to emphasize a very real economic law. Asa permanent thing, foreign trade to any great extent with so-called backward peoples is a chimera. Teach people to wear shoes and they soon learn to make them. | Having cheaper land than you have, they can also buy cheaper hides. Being what they are industrially, they also generally can find cheaper labor. Os course, for unalterable reasons of climate and geography, there always will be certain tasks that can be performed more efficiently in one country than in another, and hence an economically logical amount of profitable foreign trade for any country. But in times of peace this factor is, likewise for any country, distinctly limited. It is a fact that it is pure fallacy for the leaders of a country like the United States to count on a constantly increasing foreign trade as a cure-all for the current economic ill, i. e., the excess of potential per capita productivity over per capita home consumption possibilities under the present system of wealth distribution.

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some certain half-inch strip which divides the false and true. One might stand with his right foot wet and left foot dry if it were not for the possibility of being arrested for unpersonating a United States senator. s s Over the Border A S we crossed over, Mexican guards eyed us languidly to ascertain whether anybody was carrying gin to Newcastle. In the twinkling of an eye I had changed from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde, but with less internal agony than Stevenson’s hero. Now, if I liked, I could have a drink and violate no amendment, law, local ordinance or personal compact. For the first time in twelve years I could encounter alcohol without sin or denaturants. I wondered what it would taste like. We drew up in front of a building which said most boldly "Bar.” I was returning to the scenes of my childhood. Not only was this a saloon, but it was an old-fashioned saloon, which, as I understand, has been done to death. We pushed through the doors, or, rather, we swung with them. The man in the white coat said, “What will it be, senors?” (Copyright, 1931, by The Times) What particular purpose does the English sheep dog serve? Old English sheep dogs are used extensively in Great Britain by herdsmen and occasionally as retrievers and guard dogs. The herding instinct ha* been highly developed. In the United States they are used chiefly as a companion and watchdog, and the breed has never attained great popularity.

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

FEB. 20, 1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

! Temperature of Sun's Surface Is Calculated as 9,869 Degrees Fahrenheit. THE temperature of the sun’s surface, fixed in the past as appproximately 10,000 degrees, Fahrenheit, has been calculated exactly by Miss Charlotte E. Moore, one of the Mt. Wilson astronomers. She finds it to be 9.869 degrees. Her observations also fix the temperature of the sun-spots. These spots are darker than the general surface of the sun, because they are cooler. She finds the exact temperature of a spot to be 8,033 degrees. A spectrum is a rainbow. Every one knows that if a glass prism is held in the sunlight, it splits the sunbeam into a little rainbow of colors. Scientists attach a series of prisms callled the spectroscope, to a telescope. They call the resulting rainbow a spectrum. The sun’s spectrum is found to be crossed with thousands of black lines, the so-called Fraunhofer lines. Laboratory experiments show that these lines are caused by various chemical elements, and that, they change with changes in temperature, pressure, electrical condition and so on. It is this fact which enabled Miss Moore to use the sun’s spectrum as a means of calculating Old Sol’s exact temperature. tt tt B Tower Telescopes THE vast amount of exact knowledge which modern astronomers have been able to accumulate about the sun represents one of the triumphs of twentieth centurv science. Much of the information has come from Mt. Wilson, where a brilliant group of astronomers, including Dr. Charles E. St. John and Dr. Seth B. Nicholson, devote a major portion of their time to the study of the sun. Perhaps chief credit for the advances in knowledge of the sun should go to Dr. George Ellery Hale, for many years director and nowhonorary director of the Mt. Wilson observatory. A quarter century ago the Carnegie Institution of Washington decided to build its great observatory on the top of Mt. Wilson and called upon Dr. Hale to direct the work. There he designed and built the two great tower telescopes for the study of the sun, one seventy-five feet high and the other 150. He also designed an attachment for them which he named the spectroheliograph. The spectroheliograph furnished photographs of the sun’s surface showing the actual structure of sunspots and many other interesting features. It is impossible to see these things when photographing the sun through an ordinary telescope, because the bright glare of the sun’s light "drow’ns out” all details. The spectroheliograph, by utilizing a single wavelength of light, eliminates this glare. BBS No More Privacy TOWER telescopes similar to the ones designed by Dr. Hale for the Mt. Wilson observatory, since have been built in other parts of the world. There is one at Meudon, France, for example, and another at Kodoikanal in India. The result is that the sun—to use Irrin Cobb's famous expression—has no more privacy than a gold fish. Old Sol now is under observation right around the clock. Somewhere, during every hour of the twentyfour, he is. under the watch of one of these great towers. The spectroheliograph, as designed originally by Dr. Hale, made if possible to photograph the sun. It did not, however, enable the astronomer to make direct visible observations. More recently, Dr. Hale ha* designed an improvement on the spectroheliograph. He calls the new instrument the spectrohelioscope. This makes it possible for the astronomer to make visual observations. With this new device, for example, it is possible to watch the minute by minute changes in a sun spot or a solar prominence. The Mt. Wilson observatory has plans to place a. number of these new devices in various parts of the world, so that they may be used in keeping the sun under continuous observation. It is l hoped that new and important knowledge will result from this intensive study.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—lt seems to me that, the charge made by employment agencies for securing work for the job hunter is sufficient without any added amount. however, the policy of one agency to bleed the luckless unemployed, who are at their mere/, still further by requiring that they buy a book telling them just how they can improve their personality, to make them eligible for a position. Os course, only those who have purchased this book are considered capable of filling positions. The irony in it to the seeker of work Ls, the employer evidently considers actual experience and ability of minor importance. A. R.