Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 254, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1931 — Page 6

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The Highway Tragedy That a committee carefully selected for that very purpose has given an alibi to the state highway commission does not erase the ’eal facts of inefficiency or worse. lhat department takes twenty millions of dollars of the money of the people. It is presumed to build roads. It has built friendship of a dubious nature and political iences for the obscure and the selfish. A minority of the senate investigators called attention to the fact that the commission has failed in the real reason for its existence, which is to collect federal aid, and because of that fact the state has lost the use of many millions of dollars to which Indiana is entitled. The conduct of the commission has been as scandalous as the administration of its present director has been stupid. The grip of Murden, looked upon as the craftiest of the members, on the Governor has long been recognized. The fact that Murden came from the Jackson administration placed him, naturally, under suspicion. His conduct invited more. It required the fine legal mind of the at-torney-general to discriminate between the sale of asphalt or cement by a member and the sale of trucks and automobiles to relieve him of legal proceedings. The distinction may be legal. It is immoral. Two years ago he lobbied for the automobile, which he was successful in getting l or the use of the Governor and was then so callous as to remind that official of his obligation. The department takes more money than all other departments of government. But its results are far from satisfying. The senate will do less than its duty if it I ails to wipe out this commission and place in it stead a board whose members gave all their time to the important job of spending twenty millions of dollars. The Governor needs the advice of the senate in approving such nominees. Left alone, his judgment seems to have been bad. And for the people it. is too bad. The Progressive Conference In the lame duck session of congress now ending, the only group with a definite program has been the progressives. s They have fought for direct unemployment relief, lor sundry measures to control and limit future unemployment, for constructive farm legislation, for tariff reform, for Muscle Shoals and federal regulation of interstate electric power, and for a long list of measures such as abolition of anti-labor injunctions and lame duck sessions of congress—to restore constitutional civil liberties and representative government. Most of the progressive program has failed of enactment. That was to be expected. Tine group is a small minority. The session was under dictatorial control of the administration, with the aid of a conservative Democratic leadership. This control was made easier because it was a lame duck session. Now the progressives have called a round-table conference in Washington next week. The purpose is to go over their legislative program, to extend and perfect it for use in the next congress, elected last November in the anti-administration landslide. In calling this working conference, Senator Norris and his progressive colleagues of both parties demonstrate two things: First, they recognize that the economic depression and suffering has revealed the lack of leadership of the Republican and Democratic bosses to many voters—as witness the November election. Second, these progressive senators recognize that while theirs was the only constructive program before congress, it was inadequate. Therefore, they now propose to take counsel with progressive Governors and mayors, and with economic and government experts, to work out a better practical program for enactment by the next congress. The wisdom of Senator Norris and his colleagues is indicated by their determination that this round-table shall be wholly nonpartisan and unrelated to ahy third party ideas. Instead of thinking about the election of November, 1932, they are planning for the opening of congress in December, 1931. They feel properly that the immediate practical problem is so great that it should receive the undivided attention now of all persons in positions of political responsibility. With the effort of the progressive group—and of any other group, official or otherwise—to rally the best thought and courage of the country to cope with our serious economic and political problems, this newspaper is in fullest sympathy. To our mind the most discouraging aspect of the depression has been the failure of representative groups of political officials, or of business leaders, or of both, to formulate a constructive program to stabilize and equalize prosperity in the future. The need is not for some Utopian design. But cer--1 ainly if we are an intelligent people, we will come out of this depression with enough experience and foresight to prevent its return. To that end, we heartily welcome the nonpartisan progressive conference on a practical reform program or the next congress. The Real Culprit Now that murder may have been added to the long list of crimes committed in the name of sex purity in New York City, it is particularly desirable to get to the bottom of the whole issue involved in vice cases. Who or what is the real culprit? In an article in The Nation, Miss Isabel Paterson logically and courageously insists that the real blame rests, not upon savage or corrupt magistrates, venal policemen, or infamous stool-pigeons, but upon the law under which they operate: ‘ With all the indignation that has been expressed over the convictions by paid perjury and framed evi- • dence, of girls charged with soliciting on the streets of New York, the protests significantly and rather sickening]y have avoided touching the real issue. “Nobody has cared or dared to face the fact that the law under which such convictions were obtained —and the New York law is typical of most American state laws on the subject—is a source of corruption

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because it is inequitable by intention. In itself it is a kind of blackmail, being a legalization of privilege, of the double standard . .. “Men of decent instincts avoid thinking of it. When forced to do so, they save their feelings if not their self respect, by denunciation of the mere incidents of its operation. They don’t care to stand up in court beside Chile Mapocha Acuna. But that is where they belong, as long as they approve the law , . . “With such a law, the employment of an agent provocateur inevitably follows. He is pernicious, but he is a symptom, an effect, not a cause. Whose agent is he? . . . .Good men and true who are willing to defend the laws against soliciting, as it stands, ought not to repudiate Chile Mapocha Acuna; they are all members of the same club.” It is hard to escape Miss Paterson’s logic: Either enforce the law against both men and women or get rid of it altogether. There must be two parties to any commercial transaction, including sex relations. There is no reason why one party should escape and the other be punished, unless one party obviously can plead youth, innocence, or intellectual incompetence. The most sensible thing to do is to wipe off the statute books all such laws. Sex relations are intrinsically as much a matter of private determination and judgment as ones sartorial tastes or gastronomic practices. The law should safeguard one against the matter of abuses—annoyance by soliciting women or men, seduction of the young and innocent, public vulgarity, giving of venereal diseases, the burden of pregnancy, palpable fraud and the like. There already are adequate laws to secure these results. Let the contemptible law under which vice squads operate be sent to oblivion along with laws against witchcraft and blasphemy, which are of comparable intellectual and moral vintage. If one holds that sex relations outside marriage are wicked and reprehensible, it is obvious that they are no more wicked for women than for men. Nor is it any worse for a woman to sell her favors than to bestow them gratis, if no special sentiment or personal affection is involved in either case. The latter merely shows an inferior sense of thrift. We should go to the core of the matter. Anything short of this is boxing with windmills and merely toying with symptoms of a dread disorder. Peace News Pending publication of the new Franco-Italian naval agreement negotiated by Great Britain, all that the state department and the American public can do is to join in the general hope that the agreement is as satisfactory as advertised. Washington apparently Is somewhat nervous over semi-official reports regarding some of the details such as reduction in size of capital ships. Probably this apprehension is unnecessary. So long as the United States sticks to the principle laid down by Hoover before the London conference —but forgotten several times by the American delegation at the London conference —we have nothing to worry about. That is the principle that the United States is ready Jjp go as far a' .and as fast in its disarmament ratio as any other power, and the faster the better. Despite all the ballyhoo about the London conference last year, it failed to limit auxiliary craft as the Washington conference limited capital ships. It failed because of the Franco-Italian disagreement, which necessitated inclusion of an “escape’’ clause in the treaty under which the United States, Great Britain and Japan were free to disregard treaty limitation if the Franco-Italian building race continued. If the new agreement has been reported correctly it will make the London treaty really effective for the first time and improve the chances of success of the general disarmament conference of 1932. Moreover it should stop the preparation for a Franco-Italian war, which has been the most dangerous aspect of the international situation for many months. “Butler Would Speak to Aid Unemployed." Headline. Would you call that idle talk? Atlantic City has made a bid for the next Republican convention. T should be a good place for President makers—and breakers.

REASON

MAYOR THOMPSON is renominated, but his margin of victory is much less than anticipated and the fact that his two opponents had a majority of the votes between them argues his defeat at the polls, for factional prejudice is stronger than party ties in Chicago. 0 0 0 Thompson has no right to exhort the Republican brethren to support him, for he openly bolted Ruth Hanna McCormick, the Republican candidate for the United States senate, and supported James Hamilton Lewis. To a man up a tree, it looks like Cermak, the Democratic candidate. u n u ACCORDING to the papers, this murder trial at Valparaiso, where the former star football player is charged with assault and murder, is attended by many boys and girls. The trial judge should make it so hot for them that they would get out and stay out. o*o At this trial and the Schroeder trial in Indianapolis, the dear defendants sit in the midst of their families. If you want to know how many relations a fellow has, just put him on trial for murder. 0 0 * A CRISIS in the life of the sovereign state of Oklahome has been met and handled by Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray. This is the way it happened— Alfalfa Bill was being shaved in the executive barber shop and the barber cut his excellency, whereupon his excellency had the barber's contract canceled, his passports confiscated and his royal peacock feather plucked. 000 Before we condemn the barber, we want to know more about it, for there may be extenuating circumstances. For instance, the barber may have been pruning around Alfalfa Bill's Adam’s-apple when the slicing occurred, and if so. there are many things to say for the defendant. * 0 * WE are not familiar with Alfalfa Bill’s Adams’apple; we have never seen it; and we can’t find anything about it in the encyclopedia, so we can't say whether it’s large or small, whether it’s a mere rambo or a bellflower. But we do know that when a fellow is getting shaved and his Adam s-apple starts to go some place, anything’s likely to happen. an r We wish the Wickersham commission mlght-inves-tigate the matter, but then if it did we probably would be unable to tell whether it was an Adam's-apple or a bunch of bananas. f

RY FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

4 rthvr H end er son, Who Helped Put Over the Fran-co-Italian Navy Pact, Bulks Large in Europe's Horizon. Oklahoma city, okia., March 3—Thanks to the kindly offices of Arthur Henderson, British foreign secretary, France and Italy have reached a naval agreement. That’s not only big news, but good news. Whatever else may be said of such agreement, it shows that the two countries concerned were not too sore at each other to get together. A good many people had come to suspect that it might be otherwise with France and Italy. No prophet of impending conflict has enumerated the signs and possibility without giving the Franco-Italian wrangle first place. The failure of these two countries to reach a naval agreement has been taken as a grave indication of their animosity. Now that they have been brought together, we can forget that particular source of apprehension. n n a He’s Real Uncle ARTHUR HENDERSON, who performed this feat, is bulking large on Europe’s political horizon. | By common repoyt he is due to inherit Ramsay MacDonald’s job as : leader of the labor party and perhaps as premier of England when the jitter steps or is pushed aside. They call him Uncle Arthur over there, and means everything the expression is supposed to imply. He not only has grown up with the labor party, but entered it in overalls, a real honest to God working man, who climbed all the way up without losing his simple faith, the kind with whom some disagree, but none distrusts. Ten years ago, a great English merchant asked, "Why do the laborites have all the brains?” He would have come nearer hitting the mark had he asked “Why do they have all the character.” an m We Prefer Wlsecracker Character still counts in politics if people only would give it a chance, but we aren’t sold on the idea in this country. What we prefer is the smart man, the wisecracker, the one who responds to our passing emotions. That’s why we get so many and have to run them out, or put them ir jail afterward. It isn’t what a man believes with regard to this or that particular question that tells the story, but what he believes with regard to conduct in general to his duty as a citizen or public official. We have kidded ourselves with the old catch phrase that “this is a government of law, not men,” as though such thing were possible. We have piled up law until we don’t know what to do with it, but the government isn’t getting any better because of the accumulation. Maybe if we paid more attention to men, especially to men of character, we’d find a way out. # a u Catch-as-Catch-Can WE are coming to another presidential election. Presidential elections always are important, but this one will be especially so, because of the peculiar conditions and circumstances surrounding it. We have no idea whether Mr. Hoover will be renominated by the Republicans, much less whom the Democrats will select. That’s a sorry state of affairs, when you come to think of it. We don’t put a man in charge of a second, or even a third-rate business, unless he has shown some signs of fitness in a subordinate position, yet we approach the selection* of a presidential nominee as though it were of no consequence and called for no more thought than the choice of a Santa Claus for some backwoods Christmas party, or the country, but just wait till the time comes and bet on catch-as-catch-can luck. England’s*Way Best TNDEED “this is a government of A law, not men.” v/e spend scads of time thinking up law and more still thinking up ways to get around it, but are content to take pot luck when it comes to men. In England, they do it differently. In England, they don’t put a man at the head of the government unless he has been in the public eye a long time, and not only that, but In line for the job. In England, they know exactly who would be premier if the conservatives should win, or MacDonald were to resign leadership of the labor party. At the same time, they let the law grow normally and naturally by force of custom, which guarantees that, no matter who is premier, there will not be an overdose of law.

Questions and Answers

Is there a specie of hare that turns white in the winter? The Canadian polar hare, or snowshoe rabbit, turns from a brownish color in summer to pure white in winter. It does not come very far south of the Arctic circle; except on the east Atlantic coast, where it is found in Labrador and Newfoundland. Other American hares turn white in winter also, the most conspicuous being the “varying” hare, which is distributed from the middle parts of the United States throughout the northern part of the continent wherever forests grow. What does the name Lenora mean? It is an English name from the Greek word meaning “dauntless.” From what was the moving picture ‘Seventh Heaven” taken? From the stage play with the same title by Austin Strong. Where is the Armour Institute of Technology? At Thirty-third and Federal streets, Chicago. What is the meaning and origin of the name Orem? Iceland, Teutonic, meaning “a serpent.” What does the name Parkinson mean? It is a British family name, derived from an occupation, and means “son of the keeper of the (game) park.”

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Stone Bruise Is Bane of Athletes

BY DR. MORRIS FISH BEIN' Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. WINGATE Memorial trustees have prepared a book called “Intimate Talks by Great Coaches.” Fielding Yost and Tad Jones contribute two of the essays on football, and there are others by authorities of equal note on track, field, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer and similar sports. It is significant that the last of the lectures by Dr. S. E. Bilik deals with injuries exceedingly cofnmon in athletic endeavors. v . Dr. Bilik mentions stone bruise or heel bruise as the most common injury. This is controlled by the use of sponge rubber in the heel of the shoe and the application of heat to control the pain and hasten the healing.

IT SEEMS TO ME

WHEN this appears I will be home again. I have seen mountains taller than the biggest of our skyscrapers and rolling deserts which could engulf our Central park. Mexico offers privileges denied, or at any rate shrouded, in the United States. But lam glad to be back. Aside from certain personal reasons, this pleasure rests largely on the fact that how I may once again read newspaper which I understand. New York is possibly not the fairest city of the continent, but at least you can tell from the headlines what is going on in the world. I have traversed cities where *he fact of the supreme court ruling on the prohibition amendment was buried under the news that Mr. John K. Trenholm cel orated his eightieth birthday quietly. And since Mr. Trenholm (which is not the name) lived in Topeka, I refuse to regard that as news. Margaret Sanger’s fight for the repeal of the old Comstock law in regard to contraceptive information received no more than a line or so west of the Mississippi. Even the stock market quotations refused to divulge a digit as to the promising mine of which I own ten shares. I am ignorant as to whether the bull market has carried it on to 3 or whether it remains 1%, where I left it. a a a A Major Difference BUT the trip has had educational values, even though the tourist found himself cut off from many news sources. For instance, I purpose now to write a short history of the relations which have existed between the United States and Mexico. It is designed for children and will begin: “Many differences have existed between the United States and Mexico. One important one still stands. In Mexico you buy it from the bartender and in the United States from the bellboy.” Had I been in New York I should hardly have allowed the most recent list of “America’s Twelve Greatest Living Women” to go unchallenged. I happened upon it in an obscure corner of a Kansas City paper under the livestock prices. The jury chosen by Good Housekeeping to select its candidates for a mythical hall of fame was not precisely one to fill me with confidence. Newton Baker, Henry Van Dyke, Booth Tarkington, Otto Kahn and Bruce Barton are all intelligent and admirable gentlemen, but it is not precisely a body likely to give much recognition to women rebels. And it is the rebels of the sex who have done most to alter the status of women in the last twenty years. To be sure, Carrie Chapman Catt is mentioned, and no one can deny that Mrs. Catt worked valiantly for the cause of suffrage. Nevertheless, in my opinion, she was a leader much too ready to accept a halt in the advance and say, “Well, now, let’s call it a day.” Alice Paul, Doris Stevens, or Harriot Stanton Blatch would more properly represent the working yeast of the great ferment. a a a One Serious Omission I CAN not understand at all what the literary members of the committee were up to when the list was choseri. Women novelists are

Always Found T ogether

The calf muscles frequently suffer from cramp because the athlete dehydrates himself by perspiration and failure to drink enough fluids to overcome the condition. The “pulled tendon” usually is the result of sudden or severe effort without warming up first. Asa result, the muscle tissue or the tendon tears and the blood pouring into the tissues bring about pain and irritation. While running, the athlete suddenly feels something give or tear and stops. There may be little, if any, signs of trouble externally, but the condition internally is sufficient to explain the symptoms. * The only hope of relief is prolonged rest, strapping with adhesive tape to fix the tissue in position, thus encouraging rest, and the use of heat and liniment to promote warmth and stimulate healing. The situations usually concerned

adequately in fact, brilliantly represented by the choice of Willa Cather. But how about poetry? Gentlemen, in what way did you manage to omit the name of Edna St. Vincent Millay? And if you will not agree to her claim for inclusion, I’ll wager S2O with any of you that in fifty years she will be remembered as the greatest of American lyric poets of the period. And my next candidate is one whose name I present without enthusiasm. It is with the back of my hand that I push the name forward muttering under my’breath, “Say it ain’t true!” Yet as a logician and lover of the facts I see no way to bar her out. If I understand the phrase “America’s twelve greatest living women,” it does not suggest that the jury shall wholly or even partly accept the greatness as a move in some direction wiiich they approve. Although there is hardly a public figure who stirs me less than Mussolini, I could not deny him a place

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times —What’s the matter with this prize legislator, H. H. Evans, who, according to your newspaper, tacks his name on about 80 per cent of all bills introduced in the legislature? I note that he proposed to “protect” future legislative candidates from questionnaires as to their positions on matters of legislative interest. Well, why shouldn’t the voter nave’ some idea what the man stands for before he, said voter, casts a ballot? By the way, Evans, reputed to be a Republican, need not worry that legislative candidates will be asked embarrassing questions before the

FEAST OF DOLLS March 3 /'■'vN the third day of the third month, which in our calendar ; may correspond with the middle |or last day of April, the festival iof dolls is celebrated in Japan. The festival specially is dedicated to girls. As the sakura trees, which are somewhat similar to our peac'n trees, burst into bloom at this period, Europeans have named this the festival of peach flowers. On this day Japanese girls and women dress themselves in holi- , day attire. The mothers adorn the chamber of stats with blossoming sakura boughs and arrange an exhibition of all the dolls which their daughters have received. The children prepare a banquet for them, which is eaten by the grown folks in the evening, after the dolls are supposed to have had their filL The dolls displayed at this festival are used only on formal occasions and are not regarded as toys. Japanese boys have their doll festival, too, but their dolls consist of toy images of wnjriors.

in the pulled tendon are the muscles in the back of the thigh and in the calf. Sometimes an athlete while running is seized with sharp pains just beneath the ribs which he calls a stitch in the side. These stitches are the result of pressure from the formation of gas in the intestines or some similar disturbance. If they occur frequently, the athlete certainly requires a careful examination as to the condition of his gastro-intestinal tract. Few athletes realize the importance of treating promptly any puncture of the skin, particularly with a spike of a baseball or track shoe. It is exceedingly important that this be given prompt attention by the application of suitable antiseptic methods, to prevent lockjaw or secondary infection.

HEYWOOD BY BROUN

among the important leaders of the day. a a a How About Mrs, Boole? Accordingly i take exception from the judgment of the jury in this case. If you don’t happen to remember, they mentioned: Grace Abbott, Jane Addams, Cecilia Beaux, Martha Berry, Willa Cather, Carrie Chapman Catt, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Helen Keller, Florence Rena Sabin, Ernestine SchumannHeink, May E. Wooley and Grace Coolidge. But what are we going to do with Ella Boole of the W. C. T. U.? I don’t mean what would we like to do with Ella Boole, but how is it possible to keep her out of a hall of fame supposed to include living women who vastly have influenced the affairs of this country? Most reluctantly I move and second her nomination. And I’d also like to have Mary Garden. (Copyright. IS3I. by The Times)

election in 1932. He may be a candidate, but that will be all. Any lawmaker who is afraid to tell the people his position on public affairs has no business going to the legislature: and Evans can rest assured that some Democrat will fill his shoes after the next election. It must be that Evans is worried that he will be asked how he stands on the liquor question. If he really wants to be of some service to the unemployed, why doesn’t he originate a bill to put the breweries back to work and provide employment and an added means for the use of grains. Such measure would be an economic advancement and help everyone who then would respect him more than for his pitiable plea that future legislators not be asked to tell how they stand on public matters. LELAND OVERTON. 1110 Wallace street.

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Ideals and ooUods 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.

The 1930 Census

MARCH 3,1931

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

China Takes Great Forward Step in Scientific Research. CHINA, to many readers, conveys the mental picture of a vast nation torn by a series of civil wars, some of them serious and tragic, others of a comic opera variety. Like many pictures which a stay-at-home citizen forms of a distant land, it unquestionably is inadequate. It must, therefore, come as a surprise to many readers to find a great centralized plan of scientific research being earned on in China. The venture is described in a recent publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Chingsung Yu of Nanking, China. According to Yo, when the Nationalist government came into power at Nanking in May, 1927. a plan was launched for establishment of a national central academy of sciences. This important step, Yu says, was taken in accordance with a wish of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen. the revolutionist, who became the founder of the Chinese republic. The academy was established within a few* months with Dr. Tsai Yuen-pei, a veteran Chinese scholar, as its president. An endowment equal to about $250,000 in American money was supplied for the academy. Recently a fund of about twice that size has been made available for erection of new buildings. a a a Nine Institutes THE academy now consists of nine institutes, Yu continues. These are the National Research Institutes of Astronomy, Meteorology, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Social Sciences, History and Philology and Psychology. In addition to these instiutes, the academy has established two museums. Yu is the director of the Institute of Astronomy. He writes of it: “The Institute of Astronomy, although brought into existence only three years ago, may be said, as a matter of fact, to have a much longer history behind it. “In the first place, it has taken over the work of the time service section of the ministry of education, which was created two years previously. "Secondly, it has absorbed the Peping Central observatory, whose history can be traced back some 800 years. “Pending construction a anew observatory on the top of the Purple mountain near Nanking, the institute is carrying on its work temporarily in the historic Drum tower, situated at the center of a public park in the heart of Nanking. The staff consists of director, three astronomers, five junior assistants and secretary. "The major part of our time and energy is devoted to planning, building and equipping of the new observatory. Our additional activities are chiefly of a routine character, among them maintenance of the calendar and time service.” a a a • Memorial Park YU points out that the new institute inherited only a meager equipment of useful instruments from the old observatory. He says: “It will be remembered that the Peking observatory was famous for its old Chinese astronomical instruments rather than for anything else. These instruments of course are out of date for research purposes. _ “They are, however, interesting and valuable from the historical standpoint. Thus the old observatory appropriately has been transformed into an astronomical museum, forming a branch of this institute to -which visitors are admitted upon payment of a nominal fee.” The new observatory, called the Purple Mountain observatory, is to crown the third peak of the Purple mountain, just outside of Nanking. “This mountain forms the central part of a specal district, about ten square miles in area, known as Sun Yat-sen’s Mausoleum park, and holds the tomb of Dr. Sun Yatsen and the famous historic Ming tomb on its southern slope,” Yu writes. “There are under project many ether structures to be built within this district by the government: for example, the national botanical garden, museum, academy of music, library, stadium, swimming pool, etc. “Since the district is to be made one of the cultural spots in China, it is altogether fitting that an astronomical observatory should crown one of the peaks within its fold. “A first-class motor road twentytwo feet wide and about two mile3 long, leading from the foot of the hill to the observatory site, is nearing completion. The peak is about nine hundred feet above sea level.”

Daily Thought

Mercy and truth preserve the king; and his throne is unholden by mercy.—Proverbs 21:28. Mercy often inflicts death.—Sen eca.