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Wages and Taxes Facid by an empty treasury, city and school officials are forced to face the task of reducing wages of public officials and employes. That there has been waste in government is admitted. Jobs have been created in prosperous days for the purpose of regarding the politically efficient. But in general, government has been about as efficient as private business. The wage level of those who really do the important work In the schools and in city affairs has been below, rather than above, the average of wages in industry. The wages of the school teacher and the policeman have not been exorbitant. The men who re'pair the streets and keep traffic going have not been overpaid. Unfortunately, the question is becoming not one of how much public employes will receive, but whether they will receive any wages at all. Real estate Is breaking under the burden of unfair taxation and can no longer stand the drag upon its resources. The delinquents in tax payments in November were enormous They will be greater in May. That means that there is a steadily decreasing fund for keeping local governments in operation and wage reduction? are apparently the one inevitable method of carrying on. Os course, the situation is as absurd as it is monstrous. Each move only adds to the problem, instead of solving it. Lowered wages means less purchasing power and less purchasing power means more unemployment. The situation docs suggest that those who control Governors and legislators are very unwise to longer delay a special session of the legislature to deal frankly with the situation. The farmer and the home owner must be relieved of a part of the present tax burden, even If income taxes must be levied on those who have incomes from other forms of wealth. The shifting of a part of the gasoline tax to other uses is strongly Indicated. The people can probably worry along with fewer concrete roads and better schoolle. Some of these funds would enable counties now in trouble to continue the relief for the jobless which is nearing the end because of lack of fundst A cautious Governor, even if he had no plan of his own, might read the signs clearly enough to call upon the proper branch of government to solve the problem. Wage cuts and reductions in school terms demand something more than political bickering.

German Fascists Having failed to capture Germany with ballots, the Hitler Fascists may be foolish enough to attempt a military putsch. But apparently those who control the party are trying to restrain their own hotheads with the argument that time is on their side and that they can afford to wait. If, however, the Hitlerites fail to win the Prussian diet elections on April 24, attempts at counter-revolu-tion are probable. Sunday’s national run-off election was not the unmixed Hindenburg victory advertised. While the aged national hero polled 53 per cent of the total vote, compart with 49 per cent in the March election, Hitler increased his share from 31 to 38 per cent. Considering the fact that Hitler was hardly more than a national joke two years ago. and that his present army of followers is a disciplined unit contrasted with the shifting and uneasy coalition rallying around President von Hindenburg, the German Fascists naturally are hopeful of future success. Not Hitler, but Hoover, MacDonald and Tardieu will determine in large part whether Germany this year or next goes Fascist. Unless America, Britain and France permit a reparations-war debts settlement and a tariff-trade readjustment allowing the German republic to live, the German people, doubtless will turn to Hitler and his militarists for self-preser-vation.

Trade vs. Breadlines Better relations with Russia may be only a theoretic issue with the state department and politicians, but to American business men and workers it is a bread and butter proposition. Any one reading the series of interviews carried in this newspaper during the last week with Amercian business men on the need of Russian trade must be convinced that here is one way to escape depression. “Russian trade has been the balance wheel of our business for four years; if it had not been for Soviet contracts in 1931, we should have had to close our plant and throw hundreds out of employment,” says S. D. Wright, general manager of the Atlas Car and Manufacturing Company of Cleveland. “Our business with Russia has been above quibble. When money was due, it was paid.” The role of the American government's antiRussian policy in destroying the legitimate business of American Arms and the jobs of American workers, which the American government is supposed to protect, revealed in the statement of Robert S. Alter, vice-president cf the American Tool Works of Cincinnati. “The United States government's stand has forced us and others, who formerly did a huge business with Russia, virtually to close our plants, and throw thousands of men out of work.” Alter reports. “If normal intercourse were established, there is hardly a doubt that enormous orders would be given American manufacturers. Prospects for huge orders are in view for the near future and others are developing. “Under existing conditions, American manufacturers can not obtain financing in this country. But German and other bankers borrow money in the United States and use it to finance Russian business for their manufacturers. Proper relations between America and Russia would facilitate banking accommodations. "We sit. over here, refusing to make a move to restore normal relations with that country and our industries remain idle. Workers who otherwise might have good jobs are in the breadlines. “Certain of our industries are in the place Russian business is most necessary to prevent almost a complete collapse. The machine tool business is one, a business upon which our own government would have to depend in case of war." Or take the experience of Thomas A. Morgan, president of the Curtis-Wright Export Corporation, the Sperry Gyroscope Company, and director of a dozen other American corporations: “I have known Russia for nineteen years, both before and since the revolution,” he *ays. “We have nothing to loSe and everything to gain by establishment of normal relations with that country. “When millions of American workers Mre compelled to live by charity alone, and upward of 100,000 Jobs could be created, producing commodities for ex-

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port to Russia, prejudice should be set aside and facts looked in the face.” The factii are on the side of these hard-headed American business men. who were among those selling $150,000,000 worth of goods annually to Russia until our government's anti-Russian policy destroyed that business. Last year American sales to Russia fell off 60 per cent, while Germany’s trade with Russia increased 62 per cent. Since then our sales have fallen 95 per cent, and Germany's has risen 112 per cent. „ "The irony of it is,” as Morgan points out, “that Europe is financing her Russian trade with American money. And while the financial pages of daily newspapers tell you what is happening to these European securities, Soviet Russia has not defaulted on a single dollar’s worth of commercial orders.” By its failure to restore normal relations with Russia, the Washington government is increasing American bankruptcies and American breadlines. That is the testimony of American business men.

Hope Deferred Tom Mooney's embittered outburst against the delay of Governor Rolph of California in acting upon his pardon plea is, perhaps, unfortunate for Mooney. But it is understandable. For sixteen years Tom Mooney and Warren Billings have been in San Quentin and Folsom penitentiaries. They have been forced to give these best years of life to prison along with crooks and degenerates. They have grown old long before their time. For fifteen years of their servitude, every one who has studied the trials fairly has admitted their innocence, has wondered at the perfidy of perjured witnesses who sought to send them to their death, has expressed horror at the treason to justice and law involved in the conspiracy. Ex-Governors Stephens, Richardson, and Young all evaded, dodged, postponed. Each in turn was repudiated at the polls by the people of California. Now Governor Rolph appears to have adopted the " ame policy. At least five delays have been announced at Sacramento. So often have the people been fooled that they pay little heed to the latest news that Rolph will act on April 21. "Think,” exclaimed Mooney in letters to his friends outside, "of playing ‘cat and mouse’ with the life of an innocent man, who already is spending his sixteenth year in prison!” Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. This applies not only to the two wronged men, but to the of justice-loving people of America and the world, who look to California’s new Governor to erase an ugly stain upon the nation’s honor.

Finland’s Saturday Night After thirteen years of whatever is Finnish for “noble experiment,” Finland last week celebrated its first legally wet Saturday night. Was it a drunken debauch a saturnalia of vice, a wow of a party, such as the drys warned it would be? It was not. “Finland is congratulating itself on the order of the first Saturday night of the wet regime," says z press dispatch from Helsingfors. “The police report there were not as many arrests for intoxication as had been customary on Saturday nights during prohibition.” There was great jollity, but no evidence of drunkenness.” The best hotels served good liquors in place of pooi bootleg schnapps. The cheaper places served mostly beer and wine. Glasses were smaller than in the speakeasies of the passing regime. The government, of course, reaped a harvest in much-needed revenue.

Doak’s Position An editorial on government economy in The Times last week said in part: “The secretary of labor proposes slashing 10 per cent from such humanitarian services as the children’s bureau, women's bureau, the bureau of labor statistics and the employment service. He is silent about $1,577,000 included in the 1933 bill for deporting aliens and an additional $500,000 for this purpose in the first deficiency bill.” Secretary of Labor Doak calls our attention to the fact that his letter on this subject to the senate appropriations committee, while stating that a 10 per cent cut in the total for his department would mean a reduction to that extent of each individual service, did not advocate or approve any of the cuts. The Times regrets the error. A1 Capone is weary of prison life already, a news Item says. Maybe he's just learning that the hardest thing to kill is time. A poet must have both ambition and fire, a critic says. And what about money? Few writers worry about clothes, a writer says. That s right. Most of them think food comes first.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ONE of-the extablished traditions which we might be better off without is the fashionable “honey, moon trip,” which now is almost a sacred rite among the well-to-do. It may be a surprise to a good many dry Americans to realize that the honeymoon had its inception in the drinking of intoxicants. A long time ago it was the custom to drink mead, a liquor made with honey, for thirty days after marriage. This developed into our present idea that some form of a celebration should follow a wedding. Romantic as it may appear, the honeymoon trip must have a bad psychological effect upon both bride and bridegroom. For slowly and gradually, because of it, we have acquired the feeling that when the honeymoon is ended, marriage must settle down to drabness and love becomes practical. So we have come to regard marriage as a vacation rather than as a permanent mode of living, and we overlook the fact that a honeymoon is not a period, but a state of mind. * m m BEING human, and therefore wont to behave a little like sheep who follow a leader, thousands of couples spend money taking a marriage trip that much better would be spent in getting settled into a home. And can you think of anything more barbarous than a newly married {lair gadding about railway stations, among crowds of people, subjecting themselves to the artificial necessities of the average Pullman, or even of doing a mad jaunt over pavements crowded with other hurrying automobiles, only to end up in a strange hotel room, as alien to both as would be another world? It's a wonder the frayed nerves of the average bride ever survive such an ordeal. As we grow poorer and more civilized, we probably shall discard the large showy-weddings that have been popular so long, and perhras give up as well our belief that we must begin married life by leaving instead of going home.

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M: E: Tracy Says:

Prejudice, Appetite, Sentimentality Have Run the World Ever Since the Kaiser Set It an Example. New YORK, April 12.—Fifteen years ago. Hindenburg was about the last man to whom the “allied powers” thought they ever would look for safety, but to hear Englishmen, Frenchmen or Italians talk right now, you’d think one of their own war heroes had been elected president of the German reich. It s all Hindenburg, if you please, ‘‘good old Pau*,” the iron man. who stands between Europe and chaos. Paris crowds are ready to throw up their bats and cheer for the general whose mere name was sufficient to kindle hate in their souls less than a generation back. It’s the same story here, though with less verve. A stupendous somersault in public opinion throughout the civilized world, for no reason at all. except that we failed to judge men and events correctly, yet we go right on imagining that the same stupid emotionalism which has been leading us astray for the last two decades still represents something akin to divine wisdom.

Orgy of Emotions SOME day a historian will write the truth about this era. When he does, he will describe it as an orgy of emotions, a continuous sob, a souse in smush. Prejudice, appetite, sentimentality, have run the world ever since the kaiser set it an example. Military efficiency results in prohibition, a war for humanity winds up in the yell for a cash bonus, and the peace movement finds Japan taking what she wants from China without let or hindrance. So, too, that “good understanding among nations,” by which we set such hopeful store, finds every government barricading itself behind unscalable tariff walls and wondering why trade slumps. tt a u Gross Miscalculation PEOPLE the world over, but especially in the so-called civilized parts of it, have been consulting their feelings, rather than their brains, have been guided by their hopes, hates, desires and fears. Optimism has become a philosophy, the singing of such refrains as “Happy Days Are Here Again” has been elevated to the level of a magic incantation, arithmetic has been subordinated to‘ greed‘and elemental rights to the whim of reformers. There never was a similar length of time in which so many important undertakings failed, or so many major events were miscalculated. One can not review what has happened since 1914 without being staggered by the blunders and mistakes of our supposedly best minds. Politicians couldn’t see the war coming, bankers couldn’t see the depression coming and prohibitionists couldn’t see the bootlegger coming.

Taxes and More Taxes BECAUSE of deflation, taxes automatically have risen in this country by 30 or 40 per cent, yet those running the government can think of nothing but more taxes. They could put a tax on beer in a few hours and take for public use hundreds of millions of dollars which now are going to finance an illegal trade. They could give the country a healthy degree of inflation by careful and gradual expansion of the currency, but that problem has become involved so hopelessly with the demand for a cash bonus as to make it a menace. It sounds plausible to obtain inflation bjthe issuance of two billion dollars in paper money for the exclusive use of veterans. It sounds like killing two birds with one stone. But if we are going to meet our obligations by such a method, why not go right down the line? Why not give the unemployed their share, pay off government bonds and, if the necessity arises, meet the government pay roll. u Dangerous Precedent DON’T be misled by good intentions. Everybody admits that we owe the soldiers a debt of gratitude, and that the country could stand a reasonable amount of inflation But is that any reason why we should rejuvenate the old “greenback movement” under anew name? Paper money is paper money, regardless of the purpose for which it may be issued. When issued for the relief of one class, other classes in need merely have been given their cue Pay the soldiers with greenbacks, and you have only set a precedent for paying other crowds and cliques the same way.

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HAIG’S FAMOUS ORDER April 12

ON April 12. 1918, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig issued an order to British troops on the front in the Lys sector to “fight it out to the end.” “The safety of our homes and the freedom of mankind depend j alike upon the conduct of each one j of us at this time,” his general or- ! der read. Despite the great tenacity of the outnumbered British soldiers in the Lys sector, German storm troops pushed them back after a day of terrific fighting. German bulletins claimed their men had reached their objectives for the day and said that they had entered Neuve Eglise. American troops on the Toul sector captured thirty-six German. prisoners in a trench engagement of unusual severity. Germany announced a submarine blockade of Spain, following the signing of a commercial agreement between that nation and the United States. How is vitamin pronounced? Vi-ta-min, with the first i long, as in kite and the last 1 either long or short. Accent cm the first syllable, i

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Cereals Are Valuable Diet Addition

BY DR. MORRIgJ FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. T'vURING the last twenty yeans •*-/ the American breakfast has changed. There was a time when it included a variety of foods which were taken in large amounts. Today breakfast for most people includes, if they eat anything, fruit, cereal, coffee, egg, and occasionally a small strip of bacon or ham. ' Women seem, however, to have reduced breakfast merely to fruit juice and coffee, and those who reduce may even eliminate the fruit juice. Under present circumstances, cereals have developed a place of increasing importance in the breakfast menu. A committee of the American Public Health Association has listed

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“'T'HE further a disabled veteran X was from the fighting on the western front, the more money he averages each month from the federal treasury.” The quotation is from the opening of a news story by Talcott Powell, of the World-Telegram. And it seems to me to throw a great deal of light upon a subject which has been vastly misunderstood and misrepresented. Both sides have contributed to the confusion which surrounds discussion of the bonus, or, if you will, adjusted compensation. Disciples of federal economy have made speeches in which they asserted that it was monstrous to insult the brave boys by offering them filthy money for their sacrifices. I agree thoroughly with those legionnaires who insist that these disciples are merely caking a roundabout way of saying, ‘T don’t want to pay so much income tax.”

Nobody Really Likes Taxes NOW, I do not deny that a desire for smaller quarterly payments is a natural instinct in us all. It is a sound, selfish desire to give the government as little as possible. But it should not be camouflaged in lofty language. I hate paying taxes, but I will not complain at those which prevail or even higher ones just so long as I feel that the money is to be spent in the relief of want and distress. My objection to the bonus does not enlist me in the ranks of those who are pleading for federal economy. It seems to me that our government should spend a great deal more in public works as a palliative for unemployment. Not for a minute do I believe that even the most extensive program of direct relief actually gets to the cause of poverty and joblessness'. But when a patient lies in agony, only the harshest sort of physician will deny an opiate to tide him over. Morphine and road building are not cures, but they may serve to provide a short breathing spell during which we can get at fundamental ailments and provide drastic remedies. The finances of the government will be strained to the uttermost if a billion is handed out to the veterans now. The resources of the government ought to be strained. The balancing of woe and of misery is even more vital than balancing the budget. • * * Not Just the Soldiers AND yet I see no reason why a particular group should be singled out for disbursements, regardless of individual needs. Many veterans are among the jobless. In the ranks of those who suffer acutely can be found hundreds of thousands who served in the army during the war. But the bonus proposal makes no attempt to draw any distinction between the haves and have-nots. We are in grave danger of creat- ! ing within our democracy a Fascist group which is to constitute a super-government. If the legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars have but to ask, then congress becomes a rubber stamp and that old joke about “making the world safe for democracy” grows into an even more bitter jest than usual. The legion contains so many persons of varying views and attributes that It wqjjild be silly to draw an Indictment against its entire memDreshlp. Still, Ido not think it un-

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190 cereal breakfast foods which gradually have invaded the field formerly controlled by whole wheat and oatmeal served hot. A list prepared by Dr. Bailey of the Connecticut agricultural experiment station includes five barley preparations, 29 corn products, 27 oat derivatives, 14 rice products, 63 wheat preparations, 11 wheat bran preparations and 31 miscellaneous products. When cereals are finely ground they leave the stomach more rapidly than when they are in their crude form. The modern prepared cereal is much more digested than the lumps of oatmeal which were a part of the breakfast of an earlier day. Cereals are abundant in starch, include a small amount of protein, all have about the same mineral ingredients, and their vitamins, except for the germ of the various grains, are not important.

fair to say that in most of its official and semi-official functions the organization of veterans has been far from a healthy factor in our national life. To a considerable extent the legion has taken on a klanlike complexion, and in various parts of the United States pasts have served as extralegal agencies for the baiting of radicals and liberals and flagrant interference with the right of free speech. * * The Lesson of History I THINK few will contend that the G. A. R. made for purity and courage in American politics, and now the legion threatens to take over the same sort of function as a bloc existing largely on the ground of personal self-interest. Government by a group, even

Views of Times Readers

Edtor Times —I am a veteran reader, of The Times. Have read with increasing interest views of its readers, have sympathized and ridiculed. commended and condemned. The Times is a bang-up newspaper and is gaining quite a reputation here as a reliable source, of facts and figures. May your circulation increase. Casting no insinuations against Mr. Town or his article of March 1, I am persuaded to ask did you read M. E. Tracy’s column on the same page the same day, and the Digest's national poll on prohibition? Now does the nation propose to continue cramming a law down the throats of the people that has proved such a miserable failure? Ever hear of 3,000 school children being taken out of schoool because there were no funds with which to pay the teachers, before prohibition? Did we ever hear of so many cities, towns and counties being on the rocks? Does having prohibition agents scattered from Vancouver to the mouth of the St. Lawrence river keep liquor from coming across from Canada? A flat sentence of death wouldn’t keep the bootlegger from handling it, or distilling it. Fifteen thousand dollars is a goodly sum to spend erecting or repairing a brewery, and, to quote Mr. Town, “placing their faith in a bubble and grasping at a straw.” Really, they’re placing their faith in vats and waiting for the whistle to blow. Fifty million Frenchmen could be wrong, but 8,000,000 unemployed Americans should be reckoned with. W. D. CAMPBELL. Connersville. Editor Times—The biggest laughs I ever have gotten out of your paper: That Leslie is declaring martial law on poor innocent workers because they are trying to organize and earn a living wage so they can feed their families. That some senators think this country is dry. Boy, that brings a great big chuckle. That the people of Indianapolis got a 1-cent rate cut on water. Wait until their meter goes over the minimum. Another is the World war bonus. The boys were good enough to fight for cheap politicians, but when they need help, they don’t get Ik There

Notwithstanding this fact, the promoters of various special cereal products are likely to place special emphasis on the amount of some mineral ingredient. Actually, grains coming from different parts of the country vary surprisingly in the amounts of such ingredients that they contain, and it seems futile to make broad claims for differential mineral value, unless the special section of the country from which the grain comes is known. A survey of the entire field by the special committee of the American Public Health Association indicates that cereal breakfast foods furnish energy at a reasonably low cost. TTiey are palatable and contain some dietary essentials which are useful in the diet. Even if those are not present in amounts sufficient to supply all the body needs, they form a valuable supplement to a varied diet.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column arc those of one of America's most interestinpr writers and are presented withoat regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

though it numbers two or three million, is oligarchic in a country of more than a hundred million. And in all practicality the power is more concentrated than that. A very large proportion of those eligible for the legion or holding membership is not active. The political power potential in the organization falls into the hands of a few gogetters. The man who says “I speak for 2,000,000 ex-soldiers” in reality speaks for himself and a few friends. But even if the mandate were clear and represented each last one of them, I still say that government by ex-soldiers and for ex-soldiers ought to perish from the earth. The most patriotic thing the American Legion could do would be to assemble a national convention and vote itself out of existence. (CoDyriet. 1932. by The Times)

is no war now, but how about the next one? And this is good. Mr. Hoover asking us to buy automobiles. He is supposed to be an intellectual man. I would really like to know if he knows people are starving to death. Well, I lost my vote last election, but I’m going to the polls again, and the men who are against bootleggers, grafters and martial law for poor people who have to work for a living are going to get my vote. Give us more men like A1 Smith and Jimmy Walker. They know people like their beer. They do, too, and admit it. We want men who are square shooters, not straddlers. Keep up the good work, Times. I’m for you. MRS. L. E. T. Editor Times—We wonder why the city pays men 45 cents an hour for eight hours’ work every day, every week, and then lets us work two days a week for about $2.50 worth of groceries. Why don’t they change it around, week about, give them a basket every other week and give us a chance to get some money. With the basket of groceries and two weeks’ rent from the Welfare we can manage, but where shall we live the other two weeks, and how are we to get clothes for our children? Why can’t they change some of the items in the baskets? We don’t want apple butter, beans, flour, syrup every day. We want green vegetables, a can of corn, peas, fruit, something our children can eat. If there is illness in the family, they can’t eat the same diet all the time. It isn’t unreasonable to ask lor a change. We work for it and deserve it. ANOTHER HOOVER BASKET MAN. Editor Times—A recent letter by a subscriber states that he is entirely pleased with the aid proffered by the trustee of Center township, that he and seven others planted a “tree not bigger than your knee” in four hours. It’s not the work, however. The primary problem is feeding the families. If sufficient groceries are provided, the men are only too glad to do the work. The county has the privilege of furnishing it. But we can -not forget that the families must have a weekly, supply of groceries, whether the work is there or not. DON THOMPSON.

.APRIL 12, 1932*’

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Fascinating Book on Power Traces Careers of Its Pto-* veers and Their Epochal Discoveries. POWER Is the basis of oh* Machine Age. the power of steam that drives locomotives across the continents and ships across tha oceans, the power of exploding gasoline that propels automobiles over the world's highways, and the power of electricity that lights the incandescent lamp and operates machinery of all sort. The story of the pioneers of power, the men who slaved and toiled to build the first steam engines, the first locomotives, the first steamships and the' first electric machinery 1s told in “Behemoth, the Story of Power,” just published by Doubleday Doran at $3.50. The authors are Eric Hodgins and F. Alexander Magoun, already well known to the reading public for their excellent books upon the subject of aviation. “Sky High: The Story of Aviation” and “A History of Aircraft.” In "Behemoth, the Story of Power,” they have written a book of exceptional merit. They have done a distinct service in assembling between the covers of one book, a great mass of material which otherwise could be found only by exten- ' sive search of many books, journals, and old records. And they have written the story with so much facility and charm, that it reads with all the interest of a novel. M M M Interesting Pictures EVERY man who loves to watch a big ship ride the waves, who loves the romantic call of a locomotive whistle on the night air, who loves the purr of a gasoline engine, will find the book fascinating. While not written for a juvenile audience, the book should make a real appeal to boys of junior high school age. High school students will find It excellent. My own feelings is that it would make a fine birthday present for any boy between the ages of 12 and 80. A fine feature of the book, calculated to appeal to young and olrt readers alike is the illustrations. These number seventy-one. They include pictures of the early steam engines built by Watt and Newcomen. Pictures of early locomotives are particularly interesting. There i* •‘Puffing Billy,” one of the first locomotives to be used in England, also George Stephenson's product, ‘‘The Locomotion,” the first steam locomotive on the Stockton & Darlington railroad. Other pictures show early American trains, “The Best Friend” and “The West Point.” The “West Point” carried a car piled high with bales of cotton between the locomotive and the car in which the passengers rode. This was a safety-first measure, designed to protect passengers from pieces of flying castiron in case the boiler of the locomotive blew up. Growth of the steamship is similarly traced with a series of pictures of historic importance, showing the Clermont, popularly called “Fulton’s Folly,” Colonel Stevens' ’’Phoenix,” and other famous pioneer ships.

Early Struggles IN a day when we take power so much for granted, expecting engines and motors to function quietly and efficiently, it is interesting to read of the struggles of the pioneers. Hodgins and Magoun tell their story in detail. In fact, that is the book s method, to unfold the story of power through the lives of the! men who did the pioneering. The book abounds in picturesque descriptions. For example, “The * 1759 was a mechanism with the dis% position, but without the strength, of a smallish mule; to apply it to locomotion would have been like applying a cough to the mains'l of a Dutch East Indiaman.” The authors go on to tell how Watt began to experiment with tha steam engine. Watt then was mechanician at the University of Glasgow. “In 1763,” they continue, “it fell to Watt to repair the model of a Newcomen engine which had beep attacked by one of its frequent spells of dizziness and fainting. The engine belonged to tha natural philosophy class, and had balked suddenly at its task of making evident to students the wonder* of the new world of science.” And so the reader follows Watt through all his experiments, his. difficulties, his troubles, and his eventual triumphs. The book makes no attempt to discuss the economic or sociological side of the Machine Age. It seti out to tell one story and does that with success and charm.

Questions and Answers

It hat does Bill Hay say when he announces Amos ’n’ Andy, “Hero they are,” or “Get up?” He says, “Here they are ” very rapidly. Who is the Governor of Texas? Ross Sterling. What nationality is tne name Nadia, and what does it mean? It is from the Serbian and Slavio and means hope. What is the population and area of Java? The population of Java is 37,433,760 and the area is 50.811 square miles. W’hat is the correct pronunciation of radio? Ray-de-o with the accent on the first syllable and the a long as in day. If a person is convicted of a crime in Boston, would he be sent to Sing Sing prison? No. Sing Sing is a New York state prison for persons convicted in that state only.

Daily Thought

Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.—Ephesians 4:26. Men in rage strike those that wish them best.—Shakespeare.