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Back to Work More gift* of a charitable nature were given this year than in any previous Christmas season, according to reports from large cities. The reason is not in a more generous spirit or a broadened acceptance of the doctrine of human brotherhood, but in the dire needs of more people. The distribution of food to 3,000 people at the jtatehouse could not have happened in other years. There could not have been found that many who needed food which they could nqf. provide for themselves. Every charitable agency discovered greater needs and more needy. Redoubled efforts were necessary to dispel distress on this one day of days when hearts are filled with generosity. The cause, of course, is unemployment. Too many men are out of w'ork. Too many who have contributed to industry in the past can no longer find the opportunity. The appeal of the Governor that odd jobs be found for the jobless before Christmas only emphasized the precarious basis of industrial life. The temporary jobs were needed badly. Permanent jobs for all are more essential. Christmas giving demonstrated that charity is not the answer to industrial and economic ills. Charity might conceivably be financed by the employed and the financially sound. It can not be tolerated by tile recipients as a permanent basts of life. This state could, if it had the vision, use the labor of every unemployed person. When ceilings fall upon school children, it is evident that the idle carpenter and builder can be utilized. Idleness in the building industry does not proceed from “overproduction." The state could use wider and better roads. Unsightly slums in cities might be replaced by sanitary and beautiful homes. What can be done in cities ia demonstrated by the contrast between the present and former condition of Sixteenth street. Widening of that street for a few blocks created a miracle. That could be duplicated in many sections of this city. It would, in the end, be cheaper to do these useful things than to permit men to live in idleness. Whrn the federal and state governments finally decide to start industry on the path back to prosperity by putting men to work, there will be an end to the ghastliness of charity by wholesale. Federal aid may be unwelcome. But there are other things that are much worse. When the people determine that they have the inalienable right to a job, they will get jobs. The People’s Health “The evidence of the public health service shows an actual decrease of illness and infant and general mortality below normal years,” President Hoover says. “No greater proof could be adduced that our people have been protected from hunger and cold and that the sense of social responsibility in the nation has responded to the need of the unfortunate." Unfortunately, evidence from social workers is not so comforting. For instance: “Reports reaching the Red Cross indicate that a serious health problem may face the nation for several years to ceme as a result of curtailed diets, inability to pay for medical and hospital expenses, and withdrawal of funds from local health work. The rffect upon the public health of widespread lowered standards is cause for grave concern to the health services of the Red Cross.”—James L. Feiser, acting chairman. “It is of vital Importance that the public, should not be misled as to the influence of unemployment on the public health by optimistic generalizations having a tendency to divert financial support from the hospitals, which never before were in so great need of help.”—Homer Wickenden, director United. Hospital Fund of New York, following survey of 141 hospitals. “The municipal hospitals treated 2,000 more cases in the first seven months of 1931 than they did in (he first seven months of 1930." —Dr. Mark L. Fleming, general supervisor municipal hospitals for New York. “Illinois reports an increase in deaths from intestinal infection, most of them in children under 2, and believes that families have bought less milk and eggs because of economic distress."—The Survey. “At a health center in New York City, where percentages of undernourished children has been diagnosed carefully for three years, malnutrition has increased from 18 per cent to 60 per cent since 1928 . . . one organization in Louisville reported that, compared with 1929, 1,000 fewer in that district were able to meet the public schools’ blue ribbon’ standard of health because of underweight . . . since October, 1929, the demand for bedside nursing alone increased 73 per cent of the reporting agencies."—National Organization for Public Health Nursing. “Wc never have been in such a depleted state physically, the relief agencies tell us; the amount of minor illness la Increasing—minor illnesses not in the nature of scourges or epidemics, but are due to the effects of malnutrition. All of the free hospital work has increased. Every physician whom I know tells me he never has been so busy, nor collected such a small proportion of his fee. Lowered health standing is a result which we will not understand fully until several years have passed and the crisis is over. We then will begin to see the rickety young people who got rickets from not having enough orange juice, milk, etc.”—Miss Frances Perkins, industrial commissioner of New York state. “Tuberculosis increased steadily in all age groups during the first six months of this year. More children under 16 died of tuberculosis in these six months than in the full year of 1929 or 1930.”—Public Health Nurse Quarterly, Pittsburgh. Federal aid is needed. Buying Elections Something obviously is wrong wish the system that permits a senatorial candidate and his agents to spend more than fifteen times the senator’s annual salary to get a job in the upper house of congress. There need be no argument about that. Yet that is exactly what happened in November of 1939, according to the report the Nye committee just has submitted to the senate. Imagine it—some thirty senators! The Nye committee is shocked by the vast expenditures it unearthed. It has introduced a bill proposing a method for removing from congressional and presidential elections these flagrant abuses. If the 1932 presidential election is to be tree from the taint of corruption, every effort should be made by congress within the next few weeks to the Nye committee bill, or some similar measure to curb

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contributions and expenditures, and provide adequate publicity for both. It is true, of course, that elections in this nation of more than 120,000.000 people necessarily call for large expenditures. But this does not mean that elections must become orgies of spending, with the winner being the man with the biggest and fullest pocketbook. The Nye committee's proposal puts reasonable limits upon the expenditures that may be made lawfully by candidates for the house, the senate, and the presidency. But equally important, in our estimation, is the fact that the committee’s bill is erected on the principle that “the election process, from the time a candidate announces his candidacy or takes any other step looking toward his ultimate election, is a single process, regardless of the method which may be used in any state to determine the will of the electors.” The committee rightly says that “the corruption of any part of this progpss is a corruption of the whole ” The Nye bill, from present indications, will provoke rather prolonged debate in congress, for there are several definite ideas there about how to amend and strengthen the federal corrupt practices act. But all reasonable members of congress will agree that 1 here must be some kind of effective action along these lines. The Tiger Afield Tammany Leader John F. Curry has been In Washington helping Democrats celebrate. He would like a front line place, for Tammany in the great Democratic march to the Democratic national convention of 1932. Our Washington correspondent draws a charming picture of the polite Mr. Curry delighting the Capitol, hobnobbing with Speaker Gamer, exchanging courtesies with leading Democrats from the south and west. We are all for politeness. But we don't for a moment believe the national Democracy has succumbed to the Curry charm, forgotten the Seabury investigation, pinned a blue ribbon on Tammany, or prepared itself to take orders j from the New York wigwam. We advise Tammany not to believe it, either. Despite its recent local “pushover,” Tammany will be wise to go softly and modestly. The moment it shows itself too much of a thruster, what has happened before will happen again. It will And itself j suddenly rebuffed, repudiated and denounced by the I larger Democracy as the same old millstone, the same old party liability. From time to time in the past Tammany has had its chastened, cautious moods. As when in 1901, after j four years of the impossible Mayor Van Wyck, Boss ■ Croker nominated the highly respected Edward M. j Shepard—who lost to Seth Low. But such Tammany • moods never have lasted yet. As for Tammany in Democratic national conven- j tions, remember 1912, at Baltimore. Remember Boss j Murphy's effort to prevent, at any cost, the nomination of Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson carried j the Democratic party to victory in 1912, scoring a memorable triumph for the progressive Democracy of the nation. If Tammany had had its way, Wood- ; row Wilson never would have been nominated. Wbat does the national Democracy owe Tammany? Nothing—less than nothing. If Tammany wants another Democratic President elected in 1932, it will not set out to capture j the convention by thrusting itself forward now as the natural dictator of the party. Never was Tammany J in worse shape for an attempt to domineer in the ; bigger Democracy. A prudent tiger will keep to its own lair—and reduce the disorder therein. Sonets have invited unemployed engineers to come j to Russia for job?, Probably will put them to work : on the steppes. An English professor has okayed slang. Hence- j forth school children will be able to understand their | teachers. Borah frowns on re-establishment of the foreign debt board. What with the 1932 campaign Just in the offing he probably thinks it’s a poor plank. An cx-brokcr was tried as a leader of an arson gang. With business at low ebb he probably was just trying to fire things with enthusiasm. The Japanese were pressing on toward Chinchow. | But if they ever get into chow chow they'll be in a pretty piccalilli. Burma is likely to be autonomous. Which, like ; hippopotamus, sounds beastly. A woman's face (says an ad) is still her fortune. ' And in spite' of the depression, interest is still high. ; Headline: Proposed Tax Will Hit Everybody. But the law doesn't allow taking it on the gin.

Just Every Day Sense Bl’ MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

“JT is appalling to see the hundreds of good-looking and capable business girlo who daily crowd the employment offices, and who have become confused and dazed after being forced through necessity to exert every possible effort to secure employment.” This sentence is from a San Francisco letter. The writer would like to have a law passed prohibiting married women from getting jobs outside the home. I agree with her that it is appalling to see girls hunting for jjobs that are not to be found. It also is appalling to see men with families searching for honest work. But we arc letting ourselves into mighty deep water when we argue that marriage should exempt a woman from wage earning. It leads us into mental quagmires and by and by we are swamped completely. n n n THE chances are that every one of the fine, capable girls in San Francisco and elsewhere now hunting jobs have had one or several opportunities to marry* and stay home. Why have they not done that? Because the ythought they could not better themselves so far as mone y r and comforts and easy times go by becoming wives. Now, it it is just to pass a law preventing married women from working it would be equally just to piss another forcing a girl to get married when she got a chance. This, as we see it, would lessen the number of people now looking for work. It would put multitudes of women back into the hme. The truth is that thusands of girls refuse to marry, or at least they did refuse before 1929. because they did no Hike the idea of staying home, cooking, scrubbing and washing. They felt that life would be less exciting in th ekitchen than in the office. So not until girls are willing to marry poor men and share their hardships can we wjth justice demand that the married women cease trying to improve their tot in life.

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Shallow, Irresponsible Talk for the Sake of Partisan Politics Has Played Havoc With Leadership and, Public Opinion. YORK, Dec. 26.—With winter officially recognized, It is not out of season, perhaps, for snow to be falling in Sicily, or hungry wolves to be eating soldiers in Siberia, but what about the phenomenon of sugar maples oozing l sap in Ohio and trees budding in Illinois. We have had a great deal of freaky weather during recent years, as is evidenced not only by the records of temperature and storm, but by crop reports. Too much wheat, too much cotton and too much of some other j agricultural products, with glutted | markets and low prices as the result. have helped to demoralize | trade. If some of the economic chaos I can be traced to a curious com- ! bination of wind, rain and sun. why not some of the mental chaos? nun Foggy Foresight MENTAL chaos is, and has teen our chief source of trouble since the Balkan ffacas of 1912 which really marked the beginning . of a world-wide cataclysm. Since that time, the civilized world has displayed amazing in- | ability to foresee the effect of known j causes and tendencies. This lack of judgment has been all the: more astounding because of the great technical knowledge -which . only served to double the catastro--1 phies it brought about. But for the frightful engines with | which it was fought, the war would not have seemed quite so horrible. But for the giant mills and machines which now stand idle, the depression would not be quite so appalling. n n u Befuddled Experts WE keep telling ourselves that restoration of confidence is essential, but how can confide ce be restored as long as our supposedly greatest minds are so palpably at sea, as long as the most highly trained experts can do no better than argue with each other? Who can blame average people for throwing up their hands in despair when economists are unable to agree over such questions as Germany’s financial condition, or what should be done to stabilize American railroads? At the beginning of this week, congress went on record as opposed to the cancellation or revision of war debts. At the end of this week we find an impartial committee of experts reporting that Germany will be in no condition to resume reparation payments when the moratorium expires next July and that a revision of war debts appears inevitable. n n n Trouble-Hunting WHILE shuddering at the thought of what high tariffs in Europe may do to our export trade, we complacently flirt with the idea of making our own tariff still higher. For the last few weeks, we have i been warning Japan to go slow in j Manchuria just as though it were unthinkable that she would adopt the same tactics and warn us to mind our own business. Every one seems to have forgotten that the other fellow thinks and acts as we would, if in his place, that all rules work two ways, that one word usually leads to another and that the best way to find trouble -is to go hunting for it. n n n Petty Partisans SENATOR BORAH suggests that one way of reducing federal expenses would be to cut federal salaries, but no one expects the idea to strike congress favorably, because congress would be included. In other words, while preaching an altruistic attitude publicly and privately, we take it for granted that nothing will be done unless it serves the selfish interests of a sufficiently large minority. Shallow, irresponsible talk for the sake of partisan politics has played havoc with leadership and public opinion, particularly in these United States. We Americans are getting into a frame of mind where we find it hard to think of any problem, rave in partisan terms, and where the next election becomes the most important business in every session of congress, or state legislature.

M TODAY 4$ WORLD WAR \ ANNWERSARY

NEW SEA LORD Dec. 26 ON Dec. 26. 1917, the British admiralty appointed Vice-Ad-miral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss as first sea lord to succeed Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, who was elevated to the peerage. Italian and British airmen won a thrilling air duel in a fight near Treviso. These pilots brought to earth eleven Austro-German planes which had been playing havoc with the Italian troops. The Italian army also scored on land when it regained Col del Rosso, lost to the Teutons on Dec. 25. Plans of the United States government to take over railroads in the country were announced. Raymond B. Stevens, shipping board member, testified that several months of delay in the ship building program was caused by repeated strikes, reorganization of the shipping board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation.

Daily Thought

Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie to one another. —Leviticus 19:11. An honest heart possesses a kingdom.—Seneca.

Diet Care Needed During Depression

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hveeia. the Health Maeazine. IN times of depression, dietaries are apt to be restricted. They are not likely to contain the essential vitamins and body building substances that are available in widely varied menus. Because of the recognition of the importance of this fact, the president’s organization on unemployment relief, in co-operation with every national organization having special interest in the public, has issued a bulletin of advice to the public concerning the type of foods and the methods of feeding for children most advisable in this time of stress. The standard of diet of the bread line—coffee and doughnuts —is hardly a well-balanced diet. It lacks practically everything that a well-balanced diet should include. A thick vegetable soup, a glass

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times —It was amusing to a member of the swollen army of the unemployed, facing the bread line, to read your editorial page recently. More taxes, and why? A machine to displace 83 per cent of the cotton pickers. Mrs. Walter Ferguson’s jumping-jack aristocracy. A fitting cartoon of excessive water rates, and M. E. Tracy with an argumentative article further to reduce wages to hold our foreign trade. To me this is a fair sample of every paper every day. This is not only a matter of the blind leading the blind, but also a case of dunces fooling the dunces. There isn’t an editorial writer today who does not know our economic system all over the world is breaking down and why it is breaking down, yet they jolly themselves along, happy in the thought if they can brush up their vocabulary sufficiently to find some new expression of the same old bunk they may hold their jobs a wnile longer. It doesn't require much of a student today to see the cause of this depression, with its world-wide misery* and the troubles resulting from it if it is permitted to continue. The total income of the United States today is sufficient to take care of five times its population at a much higher standard, both in a sanitary way and morally, than is practiced today and the only requirement necessary would be tc recognize merit, abolish special privilege, and distribute equal justice to all. We have one 85-year-old familiar character on Wall street, who gained much fame as a straphanger, who more than fifty years ago invested $5,000 in railroads at a time when the government was selling sections of land for a few cents and giving alternate sections as a premium with the purchase. This small investment, after keeping several families all these years in winter homes, summer homes, yachts and other criminal extravagance, today represents several hundred million dollars. Every editor knows this, every editor knows there are hundreds of such cases or similar ones. Every editor knows there are thousands of cases today where the lion’s share of the nations income is rolling into people who never created 5 cents’ worth of value in return for it or contributed anything in any other way. Every editor knows there is criminal extravagances in the handling of public property and public funds, and that there have been numerous exposes of malicious theft and nothing done, except to appropriate another bunch of public funds to investigate and return the same old moss-covered report, the statute of limitations, or some other alibi. A READER. Editor Times—What is the cause of our financial depression? Is it not the lack of money in the hands of a majority of the people? Is not the lack of money caused by our governmental affairs becoming out of balance with the general public who maintain it? Is this not caused by unnecessary appointees, excessive salaries, and failure of the judges to give justice, and protect people’s equities in property, for which purpose we pro-

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE'

of milk, and an orange would more closely approximate what the human body really needs for adequate nutrition. One of the points most emphasized by the official bulletin is the desirability of feeding children at home rather than in bread lines, soup kitchens, or school lunches. It, is desirable to preserve the family unity if possible. Feeding of children in the mass tends to omit food for pre-school children and is associated with emotional strain and may lead to neglecting proper food for mothers during the pre-natal and nursing periods. The school luncheon has been developed in the past as an educational measure as well as one for safeguarding the health of the pupils. It is emphasized that where the school lunch has been provided in the past it should be maintained with continued emphasis on the educational value.

vide courts, and pay the judges to preside over them and see that justice is given? Has there not under the manner of delinquent tax law enforcement been a sufficient amount of equities confiscated and given to others to pay the whole United States debt? Or remove all possibility of a depression at the present time? Is it a lawful act to confiscate a person's equity in property and give it to another ? Or in other words,

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What are the measurements and cost of the Enrico Caruso memorial candle? It cost $3,700 and is sixteen feet high, 5 feet in circumference at the base tapering to about 18 inches at the top and weighs one ton. It will be burnt one day every year, (All Saints da.y, Nov. 1) and at this rate it is estimated that it will last eighteen centuries. It wa.s made by Antonia, Ajello and brothers of New York in 1921. Is anthracite coal produced commercially anywhere in the United States outside of Pennsylvania? It is produced commercially in the Crested Butte field of Colorado; the Los Cerrillos area of New Mexico; the Spadra and Russellville districts of Arkansas, and in that portion of the Valley coal fields of Virginia. lying in Montgomery and Pulaski counties. Does water ever get any hotter than the boiling point? Beyond the boiling point it becomes steam. What is the area of Montana? It is 146,997 square miles. What continents are included in the geographical division known as Oceania? It comprises such islands in the southern Pacific ocean as are neither Asiatic nor American, including Malaysia, Australasia, and Polynesia. On what date in our calendar was the fifteenth of January, 1902. In 1902 the Russian calendar was thirteen days behind the Gregorian calendar. Jan. 15, 1902, in the Russian calendar, was therefore, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1902, in our calendar. What percentage of the population of Germany is Protestant and what percentage is Catholic? About 64 per cent Is Protestant and about 32 per cent is Roman Catholice. Who played the role of the coach in the motion picture “The Spirit of Notre Dame?” J. Farrell MacDonald. Who is the American ambassador and the American consul-general in Poland? John North Wiilys is American ambassador to Poland and J. Klahr Huddle is consul-general. Has Canada renounced the gold standard for money? Canada prohibited the export of gold Oct. 19, 1931, but the Canadian dollar is still on the gold basis,

Every child who remains at school through the noon hour should be assured of one nourishing, hot dish at least. It is also important, from the point of view of the good of the community that food should be made available to all and that there should be no outward distinction between those able to pay and those not able to pay. The mental hygiene aspects of the situation can not be neglected. It is advised that in rural and in other communities where there are no established welfare agencies to determine the family needs, the schools themselves must take the responsibility. If it seems likely that the meal served at the school is the one meal on which the child can depend especially, efforts must be made to have it include an adequate amount of milk, a hot dish, preferably a thick, hot vegetable soup and adequate fresh fruit.

;* s if lawful to give a deed to another : person’s equity in property without j getting value received, and holding subject to claim by the owner or heirs to same? H. D. ROBINSON, Richmond, Ind. Editor Times—l have read so many people's ideas as to what causes hard times that. I might as j well tell mine. Unemployment doesn t necessarily cause hard times. If j i.t d . id > the rich people would starve. :it is because we can’t buy back what we have already produced, a jgreat surplus. If we all went to work, in a few ! weeks we would have a still bigger surplus and finally we would have I f° n iuc h food we all would starve jto death. , Os course, it wouldn’t do to arl range things so that we could buy | back all we produce. That would be j socialism. A MANUFACTURER. c . Ed l i ? r l> Times~r~ think widows should be given preference when j seeking work. I know widows who I are the bread earners and they must i ave , ork the same as men. It’s I heart breaking when three and four ! m a family bring home their enj ve *°Pes while others are walking the i streets for work. I think employers should investiaTd,5 IVe the work t 0 widows with children, thus the married j salaries Uve ° n their husba nds’ It's true and human nature that .no married woman wishes to give ! !f M„ er pos ifi° n and do on less. But h f a T? e mam ? d women with huskwp thelr posltl °'’*. I eacb have a few days, so thp i widows can get in some time No as e well W L th fh SUffCring and sorrn w children * Unem P lo Ved with children. A REader eafe d °iL Tln A eS ~ I 301 ,ryin * 10 lOcate a Mrs. George Womack in your Win U M d ° know her address. Wm Mrs. George Womack write to her niece in England? Her sister. Mrs. Cooper, is dead and her niece nunt. W ° Uld hkG t 0 hear ITOm SS? Write to Mrs. Eva Croucher Fish- ' SSkS" Dmcastcr ' Y , V, ERNEST G. CHASE. " II Felt street, Salem, Mass.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ _

Comprehension of Einstein Theory Only Matter of Sh a kin g Off Prejudices , Says Russian Savant. PROFESSOR J. FRENKEL of the Polytechnic Institute of Leningrad. Russia, now a visitor in the United States, undertakes to elear up some of the popular misconceptions concerning the Einstein theory of relativity. Perhaps some readers who have struggled with the theory will accuse the Russian visitor of a sense of humor when he says, “Relativity is so simple that the greatest difficulty in understanding it lies in getting rid of one's prejudices.” It is my own opinion that Prof. Frenkel is right. Difficulties in understanding the theory grow out of two things. One is, as he says, our old prejudices. The other is the attempt to compress the theory into one sentence beginning “Relativity is—Relativity is a way of looking at the universe. Wtih a genuine sense of humor, Professor Frenkel remarks. “It is really remarkable that Einstein, who is certainly the most popular scientist in the world, is the author of the most unpopular theory in the world. “I think a greater harmony should prevail in the popular mind between the man and his work.” n n a What Is Relative r>ROFESSOR FRENKEL, begin* X by pointing out that the most common misconception is that Einstein has proved that “everything is relative.” Os course, he has done nothing of the sort. As Bertrand Russell observed, the phrase is meaningless. Things have to be relative to something. Professor Frenkel repeats the opinion which has been previously suggested by others, among them Sir Oliver Lodge, that the theory | might better have been called an absolute theory. j It is true that in the Einstein • theory of relativity it is demonstrated that measurements are relative to the observer. But the chief importance of the ! t heory is that it. suggests a method |of discovering the absolute values behind these relative measurc- ; ments. “The theory of Einstein states ; many things, many notions, ! many qualities which we thought ; absolute are actually relative, but | on the other hand it destroys the ; old absolutes only to build up new j ones,” C r. Frenkel says. “It could be called, with better right, perhaps, the theory of the absolute and not the theory of relativity. “It introduces relative quantities only to build up absolute quantities out of them and to build up rules for connecting them which will be absolute and which will express physical laws. | “Maybe if the theory of relativity | were called the theory of the abso--1 lute it would not appeal so much to the present sophisticated genera- | tion. and there would "'be less talk ; about it." n n a j Newton’s Absolute Space ANOTHER prejudice, says Professor Frenkel, is that the | theory of relativity was entirely cre- ! ated by Einstein. This popular no- ; tion is in no way the fault of Ein- • stein. If you turn to his own writ- | ings. you will find that he gives full J credit to all of his predecessors. “The theory was prepared for by the work of Newton,” Professor Frenkel says. “The relativity of space was incorporated in Newto. 's work; Einstein extended this so as ; to include the relativity of time. “In his celebrated ‘Principia* Newton started by saying that space j is absolute and that space is at rest; also, he added that time is without any connection with other absolute and flowing uniformly without any connection with other events. Let us leave time alone for a while, and consider what Newton j meant when he said that space is absolute and at rest. “I have heard that Ibsen once was asked what he meant by one of his plays, and he answered that when he wrote it only God and himself knew what he meant; but since then he had forgotton. “I think Newton would say the same thing about his absolute space which is at rest, because from the results established by Newton himself it followed that it is physically impossible to discover and furthermore to determine what this ‘rest* meant. “If some frame of reference is supposed to be at rest, and then another frame of reference is introduced which moves uniformly and in a straight line with respect to the first, then all the events will take place in the second ‘moving’ frame as with respect to the first, which was supposed to be at rest, and therefore, so far as we can judge from physical phenomena, there is no difference whatever between the two systems of reference —both of them could with equal right, be supposed At rest.” What are the French and Latin names for God and king? Dieu is God in French and roi is king. In Latin, God is Deus and king is rex.