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A Real Tragedy He could stand poverty and privation. He could not stand humiliation. And so, he killed himself in a room in a poorhouse at Evansville, where he had been taken when he could no longer support himself. That is the story of a ihan once known as the best furniture salesman in the state, a man whose kindly smile, knowledge of his job and personality helped to build an industry in that city. Came age, a broken bank, the loss of savings and with it the physical ailments that come with the years. He tried up to the last to earn his own living. But in these times it proved too hard a job and so, his money gone, his relatives dead, there seemed to be no place for him but that Elizabethan institution ‘‘over the hill.” On his very first day he preferred death to the long years of institutional life, branded and set apart as just another inmate. Those who assassinated the old-age pension measure after it had been passed by the legislature, through insistence of the Eagles lodge and humanitarians generally, might read this item and reflect. They may revise their estimates of “doles.” They might with profit to themselves and to the state look into the stark eyes of the man whose crime was that he was old and penniless and learn a lesson of man’s inhumanity to man. They even might be converted to a system which does not drive men mad with the horror of almshouse life and to self-inflicted death rather than the disgrace and monotony of such existence. That may be too much to expect. But jsome day there will be men or a man in the statehouse who can pity old men and old women and who will permit the people to write laws that are kind.

Ready to Fight Day by day the public protest against the present suicidal tariff law grows wider and louder. The six million unemployed are discovering that the tariff which killed foreign trade closed the factories in which they were making a living two years ago. The merchants are discovering that a tariff which helps cause unemployment leaves customers without money to buy the merchants’ wares. The manufacturers are discovering that a tariff which forces foreign retaliations closes the market abroad which took their surplus production and made their profit. The bankers are discovering that the tariff w r hich prevents foreign nations from selling to us impoverishes those nations to the point where they may be unable to pay their debts to us. All these discoveries were made a long time ago by the economists and experts in international trade .—as witness the protest of the 1,038 leading economists who appealed in vain to President Hoover and congress to prevent enactment of the Hawley-Smoot monstrosity. After a year of costly experience, business leaders and conservative politicians are joining in the demand for downward revision. General Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania railroad and former Republican national committeeman from the arch-protection state of Pennsylvania, and Representative Snell of New’ York, conservative Republican candidate for the speakership of the house, are typical of that belated awakening. Meauwhile, in Washington, many speakers at the International Chamber of Commerce convention are pointing out that these tariff barriers are one of the chief causes of the world depression and impediments to revival of prosperity. Therefore, this is an auspicious time for the formation of the new council for tariff reduction, announced Thursday. The council is to include several hundred prominent manufacturers and lawyers, as well as editors and economists. In its letter to George Theur.is, president of the International Chamber of Commerce and former premier of Belgium, one of the leaders of the lower tariff movement abroad, a provisional committee of economists of the new council stated: "Our members realize that lowering of tariff walls is the paramount necessity to permit economic laws to act in restoring world trade and national prosperity, a necessity pressing upon the several nations, and especially our own country, which, unfortunately, has led in the enactment of skyscraping tariffs.” Among the signers were such recognized authorities as Irving Fisher, F. W. Taussig, Edwin R. A. Seligman, Edwin F. Gay, Norman H. Davis, Robert Undewocd Johnson and Harry A. Garfield. The best part of this announcement is that the new’ council is not to be merely another resolutionpassing organization, but a fighting unit. The council stresses the unwillingness of the political parties to face the issue, and proposes to make congress act in line with the majority demands of the country for tariff revisions downward at the next session. That is good news. When a representative fighting organization gets into action the politicians will begin to listen. Yellow Dogs Depart Yellow dog contracts are on their way to join the debtors’ prison and the inquisition in a better-for-gotten past. Following the debate over Judge Parker, when thousands of folks learned about these contracts for the first time, a wave of sentiment against them has swept the country. At that time Wisconsin was the only state barring Ihe yellow dog contract. During the last winter and •.pring, four cihers have joined her. Oregon, Arizona md Colorado acted first, and Governor' George White lust has affixed his signature to such law in Ohio. The case against the “yellow dog” contract probably never has been better stated than in the Wisconsin legislature which forbids it. Laying down the broad principle that terms and conditions of labor should result from voluntary agreement between and employes, the statute says: “Government authority has permitted and encouraged employers to organize ... in dealing with eu-.h employers, the individual unorganised worker is L . : • t-> exercise actual liberty of contract and to m. ' v <

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protect his freedom of labor, and thereby to obtain acceptable terms and conditions of employment. “Therefore, it is necessary that the individual workman shall have full freedom of association, self organization, and designation of representatives of his own choosing, to negotiate terms and conditions of employment, and that he shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor . . . “Yellow dog’’ contracts hereby are declared to be contrary to public policy and shall not afford any basis for the granting of legal or equitable relief.” The Fate of Bad Men Killer Fred Burke, “the most dangerous man alive,” wanted by Uncle Sam and eighteen states for many murders and some $1,000,000 worth of robberies, escaped the chair by being sentenced to life under Michigan’s anti-capital punishment law. Gangster A1 Capone, Chicago’s “public enemy No. 1,” may go to jail for six months for contempt. Gangster Legs Diamond, New York’s Capone, who was arrested twenty-two times, is out on bail for assault. The killer of four San Diego women and girls in as many brutal, cold-blooded murders still is uncaught. For the corruption of the federal government in the shameful Harding administration’s oil scandals, one man went to jail for six months for contempt. For the purchase of judgeships in New York there have been a few dismissals. Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, innocent of murder, but guilty of militant union activities, are serving terms equal to Killer Burke. Mooney would have been hanged but for the intervention of President Wilson. Both have been in prison fifteen years. We continue to teach school children that American justice is a blindfolded goddess who punishes bad men and protects the innocent accused, who never discriminates between rich and poor, who can not be “reached.” Can we permit such discrepancies to bedevil our moral standards and bewilder our young people? Gotham Versus Sodom One hastily pictures Sodom teaching New York City citizenship ideals or the principles of civil liberties. But the distinguished publicist, Gerald W. Johnson, suggests in Harper’s Magazine that Gotham may learn something from Sodom. In the latter place people were safe in their owm homes from the wrath and violence of those with different moral ideals. But in New York City of late a woman in her home is in a more precarious condition than upon the streets, if a vice cop or stool pigeon essays to frame her. “Sodom itself was a safer place of residence than a city in which the police are capable of “framing” any woman, innocent or guilty. In Sodom, as Lot’s experience when he stood at the door and argued with the mob prpves, one at least could heps for a measure of safety while he remained indoors. “But in New York, if the stories are true, a woman is in more danger from the police while she is indoors than while she is outside, where she may at least hope to have witnesses of any outrage.” The least we can ask of New York is to catch up with Sodom in its respect for the liberties and immunities of the human individual. As Bryan Untiedt watched Mr. Hoover sweat through a medicine ball session at the White House recently, he must have said to himself: “I’d rather be light than President.” In Vermont, where a cow is pictured on the state seal, we suppose the party chiefs are called political bossies. Walter Hampden, stage star, called New York critics short-sighted when they gave unfavorable reviews of his performance. That’s not the way to act, Walter. Hoover traveled to Cape Henry, Virginia, to honor the Ending of John Smith. The fact he got wet there indicates he might have got John all mixed up with Al. Asked how she was getting along, the facetious telephone operator replied, “Oh, just plugging along.”

REASON ■>

THE other day Mrs. Hoover took Bryan Untiedt, the boy guest from Colorado, to the national zoological gardens, but it would have been a greater thrill if they had him come when congress was in session and let him behold all the different kinds of Republicans and Democrats. a ts ts A cable from Berlin states that Professor Einstein thinks of spending his future winters in California, which wall be most mortifying to the go-getters of the state of Florida. It's now up to them to counter by landing the late King Alfonso. son There's a lot of promise in the activity of the federal law enforcement machinery in Chicago, which just has arrested twenty-three' leading gangsters for being engaged in the booze business, but what has paralyzed the federal arm all these years? a a a TWO women have been temporarily accepted as jurors in the Kirkland case at Valparaiso. These who are in favor cf “woman’s rights’’ regret the placing of women on juries in cases where the testimony is so insanitary that jurors ought to be supplied with gas masks. o a a By taking her life in her hand and remaining by the bedside of her son, Crown Prince Michael, Helene of Rumania proves that she is something far greater than a mere queen—a real mother. tt s a The Reno divorce court is handing out decrees with lightning rapidity. America is the land where a divorce case is tried in five mnutes and a murder case in five years. How much better it would be if this condition was reversed! tt a a ITALY and France are again at swords points'! Hois trouble would be settled in five minutes if Premiers Mussolini and Briand had to do the actual fighting, instead of passing the buck to the innocent bystanders of their countries. a tt 'tt Os course it is important to remove this cataract from the eye of the king of Siam, but what this world needs is an operation on the leading rulers of Europe which would enable them to see a century of peace, instead of constantly visualizing “the nest war.” * a tt tt If two of the best men in any neighborhood constantly think and talk about fighting each other, they win clash sure as fate, and it’s the same proposition with nations, which are only bundles of men.

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M. E: Tracy SAYS:

No Fortress, No Contract, No System Ever Can Take the Place of Honest, Straightforward Thinking. YORK, May B.—There is merit in the argument that the price slump warrants a re-examina-tion of war debts. Debts, whether private or public, are affected by any change in the general price level. The farmer who owes SI,OOO must produce one-third more to pay it off with com at 75c a bushel than with corn at SI.OO. Reversing the proposition, creditors or consumers could buy the same amount of corn with % of the money. For the sake of stabilization, it Is desirable to keep contracts, no matter what hardship they involve, but there comes a time when stabilization is served best by recognizing the influence of realities. # a a Even Gibraltar Is Jarred THERE is nothing so solid or permanent in this word that it can’t be jarred. Geologists say that target practice has weakened the rock of Gibraltar, and that if something isn’t done to prevent the damage, it will lose out as a symbol of impregnability. In the final analysis, the security of man-made institutions is far more dependent on men than on anything else. No fortress, no contract, no system ever can take the place of honest, straightforward thinking. n tt u Another Citizenship Ban ANOTHER alien has been denied American citizenship because he refused to take the oath “to bear arms.” He is Alexander Dougal, a Scottish minister, and he told the court that while he would be willing to go to the battlefront and aid the wounded and help in hospital work, he could not engage conscientiously in any combatant activity. In denying his application, Justice Luhring said that no conditional citizenship would be granted to foreigners. “I’ll deny citizenship,” the justice said, “to any man who seeks to impose a condition or a reservation on the oath to defend the country.”

Why Not All of Us? IF aliens should be to take the oath “to bear arms” as a requisite of citizenship in this country, wily not the native born? On the other hand, if such oath is not required of the native born, why should it be required of aliens? Outside the fact that no alien can become President of the United States, citizenship means exactly the same thing whether acquired by birth or by naturalization. Just as every native-born American has the right to become a pacifist or a conscientious objector at any time, the naturalized alien can do so fifteen minutes after taking the oath of allegiance. a a a Hurt the Innocent WHETHER we’re promoting the proper kind of patriotism by all the requirements and regulations in regard to citizenship for aliens, we are causing a lot of trouble for innocent people, now and then. Here is Mrs. Emma Dent Uhler, mother of a five-months-old baby, whom the immigration authorities won’t admit because she was born in Canada, and whom the Canadian authorities Won’t allow to remain in Canada because she married an American. Now what great, constructive purpose is either serving? a a a A Scientific Souse SOMETIMES you wonder whether the idea of trying to be smart has not become an obsession with everybody. Danish scientists induce seventy young men to get drunk so they might study the particular and peculiar effects of alcohol on different individuals, just as though 10,000 3’ears of experience had not furnished more than enough evidence. And what did they learn that any old sot couldn’t have told them? Some of the victims went under fifteen minutes after taking the first drink, while some kept their heads more than an hour. Those who hadn’t eaten for three or four hours were the first to become woozy. The effect on some was to make them ugly, while others giggled and still ethers went to sleep. If any one else had staged such performance, we would call it just a plain souse, but science elevates it to the dignity of an experiment. a a tt Court Turns Social ■jY/TAGISTRATE GOLDSTEIN of ivi New’ York makes some pertinent observations in the “Law Journal.” Most of the cases that come before him, he says, are social rather than legal. He finds ‘himself handling more human beings in one day than does a court of general sessions, or the supreme court, in one month. “The issue is handling, or manhandling,” he remarks. When he sat in the traffic court he found SCO defendants all summoned for 9:30 in the morning, though the courtroom had cnly 159 seats. Do sweet potato vines bear flowers? In the extreme south, sweet potatoes blossom, especially in Florida and the lower Gulf region. In the Virgin islands they flower profusely. The flowers resemble the morning glory, but are much smaller. They flower about mid-summer. How many breweries were in mine Is, Minnesota and New Ycrk in 1918? Illinois had 63; Minnesota, 37, and New York, 114.

Daily Thought

And a corse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord year God, bat turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.—Deuteronomy 11:28. Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.— Halibur ton.

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Body Builds Tissue From Proteins

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN, Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia. the Health Magazine. ..... PROTEINS probably are the most important food substances. From the proteins the body builds tissue and takes care of damage and repair. Before modern organic chemistry, entered the situation, it was taken for granted tha? there were not many kinds of protein. It now is realized that there are numerous proteins, that no two are alike, and that because of their differences they vary greatly in their ability to provide the body with nutrition. Gelatin is a protein, but is incomplete in that it does not provide certain important constituents. Thus, if one eats gelatin and supplements it with other protein substances which provide three other protein constituents, he will not suffer from nutritional disturbances which he does suffer when eating gelatin alone. The protein of milk, which is called casein, supplies most of the constituents called amino acids, and therefore life can be maintained satisfactorily fat longer on a diet

IT SEEMS TO ME by h i™ d

ON May day I went to’ my first Communist meeting. It was my intention to get to Union square in time for the Socialist rally. But when I arrived the more violent school of radicals already had taken possession. I think it would be an excellent thing for everybody, no matter what his political or economic beliefs, to watch a Communist group in action. Here, without question, are the disinherited of our present economic system. I don’t mean the entire mass of ’those who suffer from slack times and loss of jobs. For that would include an army larger than any city square could accommodate. The logical reaction to suffering and injustice is protest. I am puzzled not by the size of Communist groups, but by their smallness. I never cease to wonder that hard times have not turned a greater number into the radical ranks. Probably the explanation lies in the fact that we are a very sentfmental people. Even the men on breadlines have not yet cast away all belief in the American tradition of Cinderella. a a a Reed of Harvard THE Communist whom I knew test was John Reed. He was in my class at college, and I saw quite a lot of him in a small course in English composition headed by Professor Copeland. In the year 1909 it would have taken somebody . .with , prophetic vision to predict that Jack Reed would come to be the first Communist martyr out of America. He lacked entirely the traditional alliance with the working class. In Harvard he was socially popular and lived in the fringe of the more expensive dormitories, known as “The Gold Ccast.” Biff, though I was no prophet, I

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Tim 35 —Asa reader and subscriber to your valuable paper, permit me to say a few words on prohibition. I was a resident of Indianapolis fifteen years, when it was wide epen, and I never sav; or heard o! very many car accidents or arrests by city police as now, not only in Indianapolis, but all over the' U. S. A. Prohibition, the way I see it, is net a success and never will be. Did you or any one else ever hear of our county and state institutions being as full and running over from the sale and drinking of whisky back in the good old days, as we are wont to call them, as they are now? Do our cities get any revenue from the nun seller of today? If all intoxicating liquors were made and sold by our government, as in pre-war days, the money that cur government gives to the AntiSaloon League would have gone a

Speaking of Grand Canyons

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consisting largely of milk than it could on a diet of gelatin. Because of the relationships of £h'ese proteins to the maintenance of life, they have been listed by the biochemists according to their biologic value. . Tl*us the proteins of milk are at the top and those of meat follow immediately thereafter. The eminent biochemist McCollum of Johns Hopkins found that the proteins of kidney rank first, those of liver second, and those of. the muscle meats third, in supplying the body’s needs. After these proteins come the pia’nt proteins, such as the cereal grains, including wheat, corn, oats, rice, peas and beans. These substances contain the necessary amino acids, but not in quantities sufficient to make them compare favorably with milk or meat. It is obviously important to have this knowledge in attempting to evaluate diets. Such knowledge explains why a purely vegetarian diet is not as suitable as a mixed diet for the vast majority of people. A diet of meat alone, of milk alone, or of cereal grains alone thus is not as satisfactory as a diet

did perceive in the year 1909 that Reed stood head and shoulders above everybody else in the class as a writing person. He was more alive and vivid than any of the rest. Essentially he was a young romantic. And his first, and also his last, associations with a revolutionary party were conditioned largely by the fact that this seemed to him an exciting way of life. a a a The Millennial Heresy BUT the appeal dies in immediate promises. The I. W. W. was fond of making fun of evangelists, who promised to the downtrodden “pie in the skies.” Nevertheless, it seems to me that this sort of millennial thinking is active in the ranks of those who promise a nearby replica of Russia in the United States, though they boast that their political philosohpy is the most realistic of any now extant. It seems to me that they blink rapidly over hard facts. There is, as I have said, a certain Freudian significance in their oratory and arguments. I moved into the center of a group standing close to a Communist orator. And a newspaperman on the fringe said: “You’d better not go in there. If you get recognized, they might maul you around. They don’t like Socialists.” I was aware of that fact. And yet it seemed to me unlikely that anybody would molest me, because a gun lies between Communist protestations and Communist performances. To be fair about it, all radical speeches are fiery beyond the anticipation of the orator. I listened to a young man talk, and he told us of the millions of unemployed in America and of the

. long way toward paying the soldiers’ f compensation loan. Liquor has been made and consumed since the beginning of time, I and there is no doubt in my mind j that it will be until the end of time. | Sol M. Glick says to repeal all laws. I will not agree with Mr. Glick because prohibiton has made criminals out of many young men and young women and Mr. Glick will not have : to go out of Indiana to see that I am right. I suppose some will say I am a | drinker, and others that I’m crazy, i but I am for amendment of the eighteenth amendment. I am a i lover of liberty and justice. I believe in upholding all just and honest laws and the Constitution. D. D. POWELL, Montebello, Va. Editor Times—l think the thing for Mr. Sullivan, our mayor, to do ‘for the poor to to sow vacant lots

containing some or all of these important substances. There are certain diseases in which it has been urged that a high protein diet is dangerous, and undoubtedly under some circumstances it may be. However, in the vast majority of cases, the human being hardly can eat a sufficient amount of proteins to throw too great a burden on his heart, his liver or his kidneys. If the diet is a mixed diet and contains some of all the important food, the amount of protein probably will not be excessive. M’Lester, in a recent consideration of nutrition and diet, concludes that man must eat a liberal quantity of good protein in order to take care of his body’s needs. By a liberal quantity he means at least 100 grams daily, which is approximately one-fifth of a pound. It must be borne in mind that few substances are pure protein. Os this nature is egg white. Thus an ordinary glass of milk would weigh 220 grams, of which 191 would be water and only seven grams protein. These seven grams would represent in the total daily demand approximately one-fourteenth.

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

responsibility which the nation owed to them. And I quite agreed with all he said. But suddenly he shot his right fist out and cried, “Fut us in power, and in five years we’ll wring your necks!” The group which listened was composed largely of his own adherents, and I suppose that the threat was intended for a circle in the big buildings which surround Union square. But there was in this exclamation something characteristic. I believe an analyst could find in the Communist drive those sadistic roots which all of us possess. It doesn’t matter very much whose neck is to be wrung. The mere grip of hand and fingers is sufficient for all who feel that they live in a world which either ignores or rides upon them. a a a One Fish and Others BUT Ham and Fish and others ’ who take such phrases literally do no understand the enormous amount of vicarious release by which man lives. There is perhaps just as much satisfaction in shaking your fist at a tryant as punching him in the nose. If Fish were a far more shrewd psychologist he would join those who encourage the spread of what is known as revolutionary propaganda. The man who makes the most ardent threats happens to be also the individual who dissipates his energy in talk. He goes home to sausages and cabbage, quite content with the fact that in fantasy he has pulled down the smug and tramped across their faces. The whole truth of the matter is that the real revolutionist seems to his critics a much milder person. rCcnvrizht. 1931. by The Times)

in black mustard and kale this spring. It would be a great benefit, as there is a great need for something to be done. A. ALLEN. 1905 Southeastern avenue. Editor Times—Your slogan, “Give the people light and they will find their own way,” isn’t so good. Have you ever heard of too much light blinding people? Have you ever come face to face with some one’s lights cn the road at night? What do they do to you? That’s what you are doing to the people in regard to prohibition. Why not print some dry propaganda once in a while? There are loads of it. Good, hard substantial facts, too. Why do ypu excuse people for breaking the prohibition law and condemn them for breaking other laws? If w get rid of the eighteenth amendment, let’s throw out the whole constitution. M*s. C. R. DAVIS

MAY 8, 1931

SCIENCE _BY DAVID DIETZ—

Yale Professor Is Greatest Authority on Motions of the Moon. THE man who controls the motions of the moon. That is the title which astronomers facetiously confer upon Professor E. W. Brown of Yale university. There is another title, however, which they give him in all seriousness, namely: The worlds chief authority upon the motions of the moon. That’s how the first title came into existence. Brown knew so much about the motions of the moon that it was said that the only explanation was that he controlled the moon’s actions. To the facetious remarks of his colleagues, Brown replies with a quiet smile that is as typically English as his accent or his baggy tweeds. Brown is tall and thin and wears a mustache of the typical British sort, sometimes known as a “walrus mustache.” He jokes about his accent, and tells, how when he first taught at Yale, he didn’t seem to make much headway with his students. “I asked them whether they had difficulty in following my mathematics,” he tells with a smile. “The reply was: We can understand yqur mathematics all right; we can’t understand your English.” Brown was bom in Hull, England, on Nov. 29, 1866. He was educated at Christ's college of the University of Cambridge. He has been on the faculty of Yale university since 1907,

An Old Problem AS long ago as twenty centuries, the astronomers of ancient Rome discovered that the motions of the moon were extremely irregular. Ever since that time, the most famous astronomers of the world have sought to understand those irregularities. The modem study of the moon’s motions dates from the day of Sir Isaac Newton, when that great genius showed that it was gravity which kept the moon in its orbit. But no one succeeded in writing a mathematical formula which took into consideration all the irregularities and made it possible to forecast the moon’s future positions with a high degree of accuracy until Brown tackled the problem. The Encyclopedia Britannica, which is net given to over-enthusi-asm, says that his “work may be regarded not only as the last word on the subject, but as embodying a seemingly complete and satisfactory solution of a problem which has absorbed an important part of the energies of mathematical astronomers since the time of Hipparchcus ” In working out his tables, Brown had to take into account al! the factors which disturb the moon's motions. There is the fact that the moon’s orbit is an ellipse and not a circle. Next there is the fact that the earth’s orbit is an ellipse also. This means that the sun’s influence upon the moon varies with the distance of the earth from the sun. Other variations are Introduced by the shape of the earth, by the influence of the other planets, and by many other factors. Tire size of the task which Dr. Brown accomplished can be realized from the fact that it took him forty years to work out his tables of the moon.

New Time-Tables MANY a man would have regarded the successful culmination of forty years’ work as the signal to sit back and enjoy a wellearned rest. But not Dr. Brown. The pastime of making celestial time-tables apparently had become a habit with Dr. Brown. And so a few years ago he decided to make a study of the motions of the eighth and ninth t satellites of Jupiter. Jupiter, unlike our earth which has but one moon, boasts a collection of no less than nine. Four of these were discovered by Galileo and are within the reach of any small telescope. The other five are more difficult to find because of their small size and resulting faintness. The eighth and ninth can be picked up only with the greatest difficulty and only with the very largest telescopes.* The exact orbits of these last two moons are not known and, as a result, astronomers frequently lose track of them, finding them again only with the greatest difficulty. Accordingly, Dr. Brown decided to tackle the problem of their motions, so that time-tables, showing astronomers when and where to look for them at any future date, could be worked cut. It took Dr. Brown forty years to finish the equations for our own moon. He hopes to finish with the eighth satellite of Jupiter in a few years, however. Then he will tackle the ninth satellite. He admits that the ninth will be a longer job than the eighth, but hopes to get it done, nevertheless, in less than another forty years.

BATTLE AT LENS May 8

ON May 8, 1917, the Germans launched a violent counter-at-tack against the British lines near Lens. This struggle was part of the great Battle of Anas, which lasted nearly a month. Philip Gibbs, war correspondent, colorfully describes the 'fighting here as follows: *'l watched this battle cf guns from the old trenches looking across to Lens and giving a wide sweep of Loos to the ground below the sloping shoulder of Vimy Ridge. “This ground was the storm canter of the world’s war last night just* after dark, and before the coming of the moon, lights rose from the German lines. “These rockets rose high. . .some of them burned for a minute or more and the woods and trenches bsneath them were illuminated w;th sharp white lights. One remained hanging high over Lens like a great star. “All through the night the battle of the guns went on and the siv was filled with the rush of shells and the moon veiled his face from this horror which made hell on earth. But in the little wood a nightingale sang all through the njight”