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Not in the Stocking One of the things which Indianapolis will not find in its stocking is a reduction in the bills for water and electricity. Apparently, rate reductions for utility services must be obtained with something more than pleas for Justice and for mercy. The water company, bold, brazen and greedy, answered the appeal of Mayor Sullivan and the south side civic clubs with a threat that a fight before the public service commission and the courts for lower rates would be followed by an increase. The Geist interests have had luck in the past with the commission and the courts. But it is possible that luck may have turned and the people may now have their inning. The electric monopoly is more gentle in its open attitude and seems pained to think that any one would question its willingness to do all that it can for and to the city. A little matter of $3,000,000 a year tribute to the holding company in excessive cost of coal seems trivial to it, but it is willing to be convinced that the price of coal may have gone down. Other little items that amount to a million for the holding company each year can be scrutinized, but in the meantime the public will be forced to keep on paying. There is no apparent eagerness on the part of either the water company or the electric interests to have an early settlement of the question of rates. It is true that prices of everything except utility service has fallen. Labor is deflated both in wages and earning power. The prices of every bit of material that goes into utility plants is at the lowest. The ability of the people to pay has shrunk, but these fixed tributes to the monopolies are still as firm as Gibraltar. They are rapidly becoming impossible and may prove self-destructive. If there be little joy in the hope of relief this year, citizens may begin early to plan for another year. A legislature is to be elected next year. Men may be selected who will revise laws so that it will be easier to get relief. They may revise them to the point where people will not be compelled to beg for Justice, but can really demand it and get it. Making public ownership of competitive plants easy would probably take away some of the present assurances of the Geists and the Clarkes.

Youth—And the Depression For ten years the American people have been sunk first in the political lethargy of war-weariness and then in the stupor of the great inflation. They are coming out of it. There has been more thought and more feeling about public affairs in the last year than in the ten which preceded it. There is, too, anew generation at the threshold of authority, the generation which survived the war and the post-war era, and they have no emotional commitments to that past. They are tired of the old dull calculating faces. They are tired of stuffed shirts. They are tired of the fawning and the flattery, of the evasiveness and the straddling, of the soft and the fat and the timorous, of the shoddy optimists, the ignobly self-indulgent, the greedy and the parvenu who fattened upon the distortion of values which the inflation produced. So writes Walter Lippman. And now- how does the new generation view things? "Tlie Press Box” is a column in The Williams Record, college publication edited by the new generation. There we read this: Hum: r 'ty is in a serious plight. Her economic Situation ; ht be compared to a horse running down a very s.c-.j and never-ending hill, pulling a wagon load of rocks by a rubber tongue. Every step that the horse takes separates him a little from the wagon, but at the end of each step he kicks up a stone into the wagon which makes it heavier and brings it a little closer on his heels. The faster the horse runs, the closer the cart tomes; if he stops running, the cart, with its heavy load of rocks, will come toppling down on him and iWill destroy him. He can turn neither to the right hor the left—his only course is directly down the hill at an everlasting break-neck speed. The horse represents man and his wealth; the cart, the burden of the age of machinery. Each step that the horse lakes represents man’s enterprise with capital, the building of anew bridge, the laying of a hew railroad, the invention of a labor-saving device, or the discovery of some short-cut for production. Each is a quondam achievement; each produces foew wealth by the expenditure of real cost; each provides temporary labor for an ever-increasing population; each step brings the wealth of nations a bit farther from destruction. But what arc these stones that the horse consistently is kicking up into the wagon—these stones that make the wagon heavier and bring it faster upon !his heels? The stones simply represent the application of Newton's second law to economics—every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Each enterprise which man undertakes is a temporary advancement, but when it has been taken, he eventually is the loser, for each new bridge, each new railroad, each new labor-saving device, and each new short-cut for production eliminates both the possibility of that enterprise being undertaken in the future, and the opportunity for more men to earn their livings in the days to come. So the new generation answers pessimism with pessimism. It sees the present generation, now in the saddle, as one made up of baffled experts, political leaders who have failed to lead, big business men shrinking small —a world out of joint, with those who are supposed to “know how” groping in the fog of their puzzled indecision. Youth in times that are normal has its heroes. This man stands as the super-statesman, that as the great business leader, and so on. But today they all seem lame and halt and ill-shapen. So Youth joins in the chorus of gloom and expresses mingled contempt and hopelessness for the system that the elders have built up—but joins only temporarily. For, thank God, hopelessness and Youth can not for long be synonymous. If they could, the world’s first depression never would have ended. Despite the protestations of pessimism which characterize Youth at one stage, Youth nevertheless symbolizes Hope, not Despair. And fortunate it is that the time has arrived when the new generation is getting on the job. It is entering the scene at the opportune time. Moses and Wisecrackers The sad experience of New Hampshire’s senator, George Moses, might have been dodged if he had let history teach him what happened to other and more famous wisecrackers. His own wisecrack about the “sons of the wild Jackass’* has further consolidated the western progressive Republicans and lost him leadership. In other limes and places, smart phrases have lost battles, unhorsed dynasties, even remade the world’s map. “And who is Caesar?” smart cracked Arlovistus, chief of the Marcomannl. It cost him 80,000 soldiers to find out. Queen Marie Antoinette, when told that her people were crying for breed, made history’s famous wise-

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crack, “Then why don’t they eat cake?" She had her pretty neck guillotined. Joseph Foullon, French administrator, suggested hay for a popular diet, only to find himself hanging by the neck to a lamp post with a bale of hay strapped to his back. Louis XIV is credited with another unhappy bon mot: “The state? I am the state!” Germany's most eminent wisecracker was the late Chancellor von Bethmann Hollwegg, who made a slogan for the allies by saying: “Just for a scrap of paper, Great Britain is going to make war.” And George 111 spoke out of turn when he said: “I have beat ’em! Beat all the A nericans.” Here are some bright dyings that went wrong In our own short history: William Henry Vanderbilt in Chicago: “The public be damned!” A phrase that gave the muckrakers a text. Dr. Samuel Burchard in New York: “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion,” an appellation he applied to the Democratic party that forthwith defeated his candidate, James G. Blaine, and elected Cleveland in 1884. Boss William Marcy Tweed of New York: “Well, as long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?” He died in prison. President Roosevelt in California: “I took the Canal Zone and let congress debate; and while the debate goes on the canal does, too”—a boast for which congress years later had to pay Colombia. President Hoover can recall two boomerang phrases of his Palo Alto speech of acceptance. They are: ‘A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far reaching in purpose.” He referred to prohibition. “Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years we shall, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.” He referred to the late HardingCoolidge boom.

Obvious Relief If congress votes itself a long Christmas holiday without voting the families of 7,000,000 unemployed some form of relief, the country is apt to think that congress is more intent upon personal pleasure than public duty. That would be especially unfortunate because—unless we are mistaken—it is untrue. Two reasons explain congress’ delay to date in this crucial matter. One reason has been the lack of time, the President's failure to call a special session having left only about a fortnight for congressional action before the regular holiday recess. The other reason is that the multiplicity of relief bills and proposed panaceas has slowed down legislative action. Despite these two legitimate reasons for delay on general relief legislation, however, there is no excuse for withholding action on one simple and easy measure over which there is no wide disagreement and no need for long discussion, that empowering the federal farm board to turn over wheat for poor relief. Many state and local relief organizations need these government stores to add to the depleted and inadequate rations now being distributed to the jobless. Local conditions can determine whether the wheat is needed in the form of flour, with local millers contributing their services free or at nominal cost, or whether the wheat is served as a highly nutritious boiled cereal, as recommended by some physicians. Hardly less desperate than the condition of city families of the unemployed is the plight of farmers, now in the tenth year of agricultural depression. The senate resolution would help the farmers by reducing the giant wheat surplus which is depressing their market. The farm board’s 180,000,000-bushel surplus is holding down the market far below the cost of production. Disposal of 40,000,000 bushels of wheat through existing relief agencies thus would not only feed the hungry of the cities, but at the same time improve the lot of 2,000,000 farmers. The resolution has the support of the senate agricultural committee, the farm board, and unemployment relief agencies generally. Here Is one case in which congress, if it will, can act quickly to meet a grave emergency. Josephus Daniels to the contrary, this is no age of special privilege. One man can starve as well as another. British farmers say it doesn’t pay to raise crops, so they live on their savings. But American farmers still are coming a cropper. A duck in Los Angelas is trying to hatch an ostrich egg. That’s certainly a big undertaking.

Just Every Day Sense B MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

is a term that is very much misused. It is subject to many interpretations. Advocates ot drawing-room mannerisms contend that men owe certain polite courtesies to women and that because they realize the potential mother in all that is feminine they love to practice them. Therefore, when a man springs to his feet or takes on his hat in the elevator when a woman enters, there burns within him the inborn desire to protect her. That statement, it seems to me, may be subjected to intelligent questioning. For the truth is that most of these magnificent gestures made by the oldfashioned gentleman were plays to the grand stand and did not represent at all his true attitude toward what he loved to regard as ‘the weaker sex.” We always have confused politeness with chivalry, "i et many a polite man is the veriest scoundrel in all his dealings with women. A chivalrous man, on the other hand, is one who is brave, gallant, magnanimous. And he may possess all these virtues, though he has not mastered perfectly the drawing-room graces. • a a themselves have been deceived badly by ▼ ▼ the generally erroneous idea of what constitutes chivalry. They have been taught that the gallant man will fly to the protection of the innocent. What they have not learned is that he also will, if he is a true hero, fly just as readily to the defense of the erring when injustice impends. Mistake it not, there are knights these days, just as surely as there were in days of old. They may not wear plumed helmets, or stoop to kiss a lady’s hand. But they are the men who are willing to give the fallen girl another chance, who are decent to black as well as white maidens, and who are capable of seeing all women in human instead of merely feminine terms. Old-fashioned chivalry flourished in feudal days. During their duration there was more actual injustice dealt to both men and women than all their gay tournaments and romantic deeds can hide. In the name of common sense, let's not look back upon them with regret.

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Leaders of Both Parties Arc Trying to Soft Pedal Prohibition Because They Can't Guess Its Effect on Next Year’s Election. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—1 tis never more than a short step from the commonplace to the tragic, or vice versa. Unable to resist the impatience of their 7-year-old son, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Oman of Muskegon, Mich., forestall Santa Claus by giving the boy a sled. He dances joyfully out of the house with it to slide on the near-by lake. Watching from a window, the parents are horrified to see him disappear through the crackling ice. They hurriedly launch a boat in an attempt to rescue him, but it capsizes. Three neighbors come to their assistance, with the result that all seven are drowned. A tragic w’aste of life, but it symbolizes that sympathy for those in trouble. That willingness to face anything and everything for the sake of helping them, which alone justified continued faith in men. tt tt tt Rabbit —Discoverer A DOG chases a rabbit out in New Mexico and the El Rey mine, which contributed so much to make the court of Montezuma magnificent and to gladden the hearts of its conquerors with loot, but which has been “lost” for more than 200 years, is discovered. Though long since drained of its treasure, the mine is rich in old Spanish documents. Human beings will claim the credit for this find, but it really belongs to the scared rabbit. # tt tt Crimes and Motives ANGERED at being discharged, a Japanese butler murders his wealthy employer in Poughkeepsie with unbelievable brutality and viciousness. One would like to believe that horrible crimes center around some deep, if not justifiable emotion, but more often than not, they originate in trivialities. It is on record that a stranger once was shot on the streets of a great city, for no other reason than that he had been the eleventh person to remark to the killer, “it’s a hot day.”

Values Perplex Us THE hardest thing to learn is a sense of value. Statesmen smile as though it were of no consequence when sending nations into a life and death struggle; neighbors contract enduring hate for each other over trespassing chickens or barking dogs. We forever are discovering that what one person considers all-im-portant, may appear to another as trifling, and that it is well-nigh impossible to find two people to agree on what is most important at a given moment. a a a Congress Dallies TO a majority of our senators and representatives the cancellation, or even revision, of war debts seems unthinkable, particularly because of the depression. Holding such a view, one would suppose that they would waste no time in passing relief measures. Asa matter of fact, they have done nothing except talk about authorizing the farm board to give away forty million bushels of wheat. The senate has been content to remain deadlocked over Moses, while the house has found satisfaction in psycho-analyzing Mr. Hoover and some big bankers. a a a Skip Prohibition CONSIDERING all that has been said on the subject, prohibition ought to be regarded as a paramount issue, but instead, leaders of both parties are trying to soft-pedal it because of their inability to guess its effect on next year’s election. Dry or wet, they would rather see the federal deficit grow and the American people burdened by a great and unnecessary increase of taxes than take up a question which has irritated the public for ten years. Such an attitude would be easier to understand, if the problem involved were not obviously responsible for so many of our ills.

M TODAY £53 IS THE- Vs WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

BOLSHEVIST FEACE PARLEY December 22

ON Dec. 22, 1917, peace negotiations began between the central powers and the Bolshevist government. Count Czernin, speaking for the central powers, proposed an immediate peace without forcible annexations and indemnities. The allies lost heavily in naval warfare—France lost nine ships of more than 1,600 tons during the week ending on this date, and England suffered the loss of three torpedo boats, thirteen officers and 180 men off the Dutch coast. Torpedoes or mines were thought to have caused the explosions. England successfully repulsed attacks near the Bapaume-Cambria road and southwest of Armentieres, while Italy regained the ground lost in the region of Monte Asolone on Dec. 19.

Questions and Answers

Where did Patrick Henry deliver his “Give me liberty or give me death” speech? Before the Virginia house of burgesses, meeting in an old church near Richmond, Va. What Is the salary of the president of the American Federation of Labor? He receives $12,000 a year. WTio owns “Mutt,” the horse used by Hoot Gibson in “Wild Horse?” Gibson owns him. What kind of a tube is used in a television reproducer? , A neon tube.

Adults Are Not Immune to Mumps

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of th American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. WHEN the glands below and in front of the ear swell suddenly with the appearance of fever and without any other adequate explanation, the condition probably is mumps. Exact cause of this disease is not known, but it is quite certain infectious. Contact with cases of the disease results promptly in the appearance of other cases. The contact may be with the secretions from the nose and throat directly or by contact with articles contaminated by such secretions. The disease usually appears from

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T WENT to see the big contract bridge men at work and was delighted to be drafted as a referee. Fortunately, my responsibility consisted of nothing more than the obligation to sit just behind Mr. Lenz and keep my mouth shut. The match, beyond argument, constitutes the overemphasis of a pastime, but from my point of view contract of this sort is more thrilling for the spectator than either college football or professional hockey. And yet it was not the rise and fall of the cards which interested me most. As I went down the hall of the Culbertson suite toward the arena I noticed a sign upon a door which read: “Quiet, please. Children asleep and dreaming.” It left me wondering what are the dreams of a little boy and girl living in a contract bridge household. And even more I am curious to I know something about the waking life of the Culbertson children. Indeed, I have tried to imagine for myself the breakfast conversation of the family: a a a. Breakfast at Culbertsons ELY CULBERTSON (speaking to his small son, Jump-Bid Bruce): “You see, daddy was North and mummy was South, and I opened with a one club bid to indicate king, queen, seven, deuce in that suite and the ace of hearts. But bad old Mr. Lenz doubled, and your mother passed”— Jump-Bid Bruce: “I want to hear the story of the three bears”— Mrs. Culbertson: “No, dear, not the three bears. That’s the official system. If daddy bid three bears mummy would have to take him out in to a little slam in tigers. And, besides, papa wouldn’t think of bidding three bears. He forgot to tell you that we were vulnerable.” But very probably that is nothing like it, for even the tension of the big match could not keep Mrs. Culbertson away from her Christmas shopping, and Mr. Lightner took her place at the card table. I was prepared to find a certain tension among the goldfish who are engaged in the card battle of the century, but I had been under the impression that possibly the little spats so frequently reported in the papers constituted nohing more than a flair for showmanship and publicity upon the part of the performers. Now I am prepared to acquit all members of the troupe from that accusation. Even in the role of a deaf and dumb kibitzer, I could feel the blood congeal along my arteries at all the tight points in the match. I felt that a sneeze upon my part might ruin a slam, while a good raucous cough could blow the Culbertson | system into smithereens. a a a \ The Man Who Played God SITTING in a vantage point which permitted me to see the cards of Mr. Lenz, Mr. Lightner and the dummy, it was quite possible to figure out what Mr. Culbertson held. I am not stating that as a great feat in cerebration. But it followed naturally that on many occasions I quite readily could have played more cleverly than any one of the experts, since things re- : vealed to me were still mysterious to the champion racked by that j Hamlet-like problem of “to finesse ! or not to finesse.” j It was not altogether a comfortable feeling to be omnicient and

Lifting the Lid

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twelve to twenty-six days after such a contact. In most instances a person who has had mumps once is not likely to have the disease again, but cases do occur rarely a second time in the same individual. Records indicate that mumps is one of the most infectious of all such diseases. Children from 5 to 15 are more likely to be infected than are others, but cases frequently occur among grownups, particularly in dormitories or institutions. Mumps is seen most commonly in the spring and winter, but may occur at any season. Men are infected more frequently than are women. Fortunately the complications of mumps are not

survey human fallibility. It does not surprise me that Jove grew impatient sometimes during his stretch upon Olympus and hurled thunderbolts. I, too, was seized with a grave temptation to interfere with mortals in their mistakes and struggles. There was a moment—or, to be more exact, a period of two and one-half minutes—during which Mr. Jacoby sat in agony trying to make up his mind whether to cover a ten of diamonds with his queen. I could have put him out of his misery by shouting, “It makes no difference; he’s got the ace, king, jack and nine!” a a a The Urge to Interfere THE wild urge to speak aloud and give inspired advice assailed me. A dozen times it was all I could do to restrain myself from touching Lenz or Lightner on the back and saying, “I’d lead that one.” All the press services of the nation were assembled, and even the telegraph wires twitched as they waited to announce to London, Cleveland and Seattle that Jacoby

People’s Voice

Editor Times—What manner of political bug is it that inoculates our secretaries of state with a burning desire to become Governor, and, worse still, starts them building fences around the office before they even have demonstrated their ability to fill any state political office? Former secretaries of State Shortemeier and Fifield now find themselves relegated to the political discard, whence there is no return, because they sought to use tljeir office to attain the governorship, and now Secretary of State Frank Mayr, undismayed by the fate of his predecessors, is employing the same tactics, and is destined shortly to find himself enjoying political oblivion—and justly so. The citizens of Indiana have demonstrated that they will not tolerate an office holder who deems himself above the party that elected him, nor will they tolerate a party within a party. If the Democrat party in Indiana expects to avoid the mistakes that have humbled the Republican party into an object of condemnation and pity, it must nominate men for state offices who will redeem the good name of our state, and not permit any faction of self-appoint-ed “leaders” to bring about the nomination of candidates who have little, if any, chance to be elected, as has been done in many instances during the last several elections. It is a matter of common knowledge that such worthy and representative Democrats as Albert Stump, and others, have been supported only passively, if not actually opposed, by these factions, after they failed to nominate their own candidates. Such a faction now is aligned with Secretary of State Mayr, much to his political peril. Tenures of office of the present “accidental’’ Governor and his unfortunate predecessors make it incumbent upon the Democratic party to nominate for Governor a man with the character and ability to direct a constructive and respectable administration, and not one who is utility controlled and graftridden from top to bottom. JOHN A. ROTHROCK. Martinsville, Ind.

serious, except in rare cases in which secondary inflammation of the sex glands occurs. When mumps develops, the patient at once should be kept away from other people, particularly young children, during the time when the glands are swollen. In the prevention of mumps, the blood of people who have recently had the disease may be injected, but the procedure is not practiced commonly because the disease itself is not ordinarly serious. Certainly the handkerchiefs and any other apparel that is soiled with the nose and throat secretions of the patients should be boiled and thus freed from the menace of conveying the infection.

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

had made his three clubs or gone down two undoubled. Never again will I have such a chance to attain the first page of the papers. Before my eyes there swam the inevitable headline “Kibitzer Killed as Big Match Is Halted for Ten Minutes.” Once Mr. Lenz could not stand the strain of Mr. Lightner’s deliberation and leaped from the table to stride across the room. I wanted to walk with him arm in* arm, for the problem already was settled for anyone who could see with his own eyes the distribution. But Mr. Lightner sat and sawed back and forth with his ace of diamonds as if it had been a violin bow employed to bring forth the sweet strains of “Meditation” from “Trais.” I thought it was only we tyros who get caught up in such muscular instability. a a a Poker Face Is Missing r I "'HERE is, I find, no equivalent for the poker face in contract bridge. Mr. Lenz leaps. Mr. Culbertson has a knee jerk, like that of Floyd Gibbons while doing a rapid-fire broadcast. Mr. Jacoby bites his nails, and Mr. Lightner twitches. And so I went away from there unnerved. What do these men think I am made of? In the room where the telegraph instruments clicked and reporters roared over telephones two card tables had been set up for the working press. “Is it pinochle or hearts?” I wanted to know. “Contract,” they answered proudly. They had a right to be proud—these gentlemen and ladies of the press. Perhaps they played less well than the champions in the roped arena, but they were having a lot more fun. (Couvrieht, 1931. by The Times) What were the dates of the Titanic disaster, and the Johnstown flood? The Titanic. disaster occurred Sunday, April 14, 1912, at 11:40 p. m., ship’s time, (10:45 p. m., New York time). The Johnstown flood occurred May 31, 1889.

Home-Made Yule Candy When you know how easy it is to make candies at home, and when you have the simple directions and carefully compiled recipes for making all sorts of candies that are contained in our Washington Bureau’s bulletins on the subject, there will be no reason why they won’t be plenty of Christmas candy in your home this Christmas. The three bulletins containing this information are: 1. Fondants, Fudges and Bonbons. 2. Candied Fruits and Nuts. 3. Hard Candies, Nut Brittles and Taffies. A packet containing these three bulletins can be had from our Washington Bureau by filling out the coupon below and mailing as directed: — CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. B-16, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington. D. C. I want the packet of three CANDY MAKING Bulletins, and enclose herewith 10 cents in coin, or loose, uncancelled, United States postage stamped to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NUMBER CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times.

-DEC. 22, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ _

Books on Aviation Arc Fine Gifts for the Boy Who Is Air-Minded, and What One Isn’t? THE youth of the nation Is airnilnded. If you wish to verify that fact, station yourself near a schoolhouse when the dismissal bell rings and count the number of boys who are wearing aviator helmets. Another interesting experiment is to engage a 13-year-old boy in conversation upon the subject of aviation. Within 15 minutes you wiH be wondering if it isn’t really the secretary of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America you are talking to. That would indicate that a book on aviation might make a fine Christmas present for an older boy. Incidentally, it would be an acceptable gift for many adults who are interested in aviation, either as a profession or a hobby. The most complete story of aviation, which has come to our attention is ’A History of Aircraft,” by F. Alexander Magoun and Eric Hodgins. (The publisher is Whittlesey House and the price $5.) Although written in language easily within the grasp of the nontechnical reader, the book is actually an encyclopedia of aviation history. Its publication filled a spot on the bookshelf which had, until that time, been vacant. tt ft U Complete' Record Given A SPLENDID feature of “A History of Aircraft” is the excellent illustrations. Those range from reproductions of old prints to photographs of the newest airplane* and airships. The book is divided into six sections. The first deals with balloons and parachutes; the second with navigable balloons and airships; the third with ornithopters, that is with attempts at flying by means of flapping wings; the fourth with helicopters; the fifth with gliders, and the sixth with airplanes. The section on airplanes contains an excellent discussion of aviation in the World war and in the postwar period. An appendix, which contains a 25page “Condensed Table of Records,” is particularly valuable to those in need of aviation statistics. Another excellent book for the air-minded is “The Conquest of the Atlantic by Air,” written by Charles Dixon, a British pilot who saw service during the world War. The book is published by Lippincott at $2.50. The book is a history of the important and adventurous attempt* to fly the Atlantic since 1910. Many will be surprised to know that attempts to fly the Atlantic were made twenty years ago. Dixon begins his book with the story of Walter Wellman’s attempt to make the trip in an airship, the America. Wellman) took off on Oct. 15, 1910. The airship was not equal to the task. Fortunately a wireless message brought aid from a ship and Wellman and his crew were rescued.

Cloud Flying Described THERE are many fine illustrations m Dixon’s book. These show, among others, the NC-4, the flying boat which made the first trans-Atlantic flight, the R-34, which made the first airship crossing, Lindbergh’s landing at Croyden, pictures of Chamberlin and Levine taking off for Germany, a number of pictures of the Graf Zeppelin. Kiingsford-Smith and the Southern Cross, and the famed Question Mark. An excellent book for the older boy or young man who is interested in gliders is “The Book of Gliders,” by Edwin W. Teale. It is a handbook of interesting information about this fascinating phase of aviation. In the book Teale describes the sport known as “cloud flying.” The pioneer work in this field was carried on in Europe by Robert Kronfeld. the Austrian ace. The trick is for the glider pilot to get into the rising column of air at the base of a cumulus cloud and permit it to carry his craft up into the air. When that column has carried the glider as high as it will go, the pilot glides toward another cloud, repeating the process once more. The trick is particularly popular in Germany, where it has been christened “cloud hopping.” One of the difficulties of the stunt is that cumulus clouds form and disappear with rapidity at times. Sometimes a pilot will glide toward a cloud only to find the cloud has disappeared when he reaches the spot.

Daily Thought

And I will take thee, and then shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt b king over Israel.—l Kings 11:37. God’s mill grinds slow, but rure. -George Herbert. Is Tullulah Bankhead’s father a United States senator? William B. Bankhead, her father, is a representative in congress from Alabama. Her uncle is Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama.