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Same Old Story The Constitution of the United States says in language not to be misunderstood, that whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of congressman, the Oovemor of the state shall call a special election. There is a vacancy caused by the death of Representative Vestal. Congress will be in session until March 4. The vote of one member might conceivably change the whole course of legislation! Governor Leslie saya he will call no election unless compelled *o do so. That may indicate the extent to which respect for the Constitution has slipped in the past decade. Even governors may now ignore it. Os course, the real reason for inaction is not the cost but the disinclination of the Hoover boys to have a showdown in advance of the November joust on the issue of supporting him. Prejudice Kills Trade Citizens who can not get jobs or who can not keep their businesses afloat in these hard times doubtless wonder why their government is so intent on destroying trade with Russia, which could help revive prosperity. We wonder ourselves. We have been investigating. The answer is prejudice. Certainly the antiRussian trade policy is not based on facts or reason. Usually only one condition is imposed, on a purchaser. Will the buyer pay? In addition to that question, the state department, in rare cases, has asked also whether the goods sold would lead to war and occasionally has banned trade in war materials. Russia has a clean bill of health on both counts. She wants to buy peace goods from us, not war materials. As for payments, she is one of the few countries in the world during the post-war period that have paid all their commercial obligations. During the last six years, Russian purchases in this country on credit have amounted to about half a billion dollars, without loss of 1 cent to American sellers. This is what James D. Mooney, vice-president of General Motors, calls “an enviable record.” In these days when other foreign obligations to Americans are being defaulted right and left, and when so many American companies can not pay theif bills, Russian trade seems to be among the few safe risks. At this point, however, some victim of anti-Russian propaganda is apt to arise and say that Russia can not be trusted because she refuses to settle for expropriated property and the Kerensky government debt. That is not true. Repeatedly the Russian government has stated that it would welcome negotiations for such settlement. Unlike the United States government, which refused to make any settlement with the American victims of the American expropriation of the liquor industry, the Soviet government adjusted the old claims of the General Electric Company, with which it now has a $25,000,000 contract. As for the Kerensky debt of sl92,ooo,ooo—part of which was given by the United States to counterrevolutionists and used in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Soviet government—Moscow does not use apparently good precedents in international law to refuse a settlement. On the contrary, she says she is ready to negotiate on those American claims and Russia's counterclaims arising out of American intervention in Siberia in 1919-20. That American intervention is described by General William S. Graves, commander of the American forces, as “a deliberate interference in the internal affairs cf the Russian people, prolonging the civil war, and entailing untold loss of life and property.” In view of that bloody American intervention in Russian internal affairs, it is rather hypocritical for American officials today to say that we can not have normal relations with Russia because she might interfere in our domestic affairs. Foreign debt payment today is ridiculed in most debtor countries. We already have canceled war debts from 25 to 80 cents on the dollar, and then given a moratorium even on that reduced amount. If we gave Russia an 80 per cent reduction, as we have given to the Fascist dictatorship of Italy, Russia would not ask for an additional moratorium. Indeed the Russian (Kerensky) debt is so small that Moscow could afford to pay it all if she had to. Prominent American business men, who have dealt with Russia for years, agree that there is no real reason of any kind for Washington to continue its trade-killing policy against Russia.

The Tax Bill (From the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette] The new tax bill goes to the senate. As it stands, it seems to be adequate to balance the budget, though Secretary Mills says it still lacks a little. Probably the senate will add the necessary fringe to splice the bill to the budget. The thing that seems to have been slighted by the house is inheritance tax. There is the fairest tax that a nation can assess. It leaves men free during their lives and takes youths back to the toe mark when they start. An inheritance tax gives man his liberty and preserves to society the sense of opportunity and equality for all its members. There is no great reason why any man should inherit more than ten or fifteen million dollars. Everything above that should be taken. The shock to the economic and industrial organisation would be no greater if the surplus beyond any reasonable amount like this should be taken at death—no greater than the shock that follows when fool sons-in-law and dilettante sons get into great business organizations and wreck them. If a man has a wise son or son-in-law, he will make him full partner, and so more or less escape the inheritance tax. If he has a fool son. he can not do it. If a father can not trust his son, why should society trust him with the father's money? Let the budget be balanced by a stiff inheritance tax and America will be a better and fairer country. One State Acts Urgent as are the issues of efficiency and economy at Washington, local communities should remember also that, like charity, these begin at home. The biggest tax leaks are in the extravagances and duplications in district, township, county, and state governments that use up twice as much of the tax dollar as does the federal government. North Carolina progressive bellwether of the south, believes not only in states’ rights, but in states’ duties. In 1930 Governor O. Max Gardner called upon the experts of the institute of government research of Brookings institution to make a state survey. One result was the enactment last year of a set of laws that all but revolutionized Old North’s governmental machinery. This progratn, lifting at least

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$12,000,000 from the backs of general property owners without curtailing essential services, included: Transfer of 45,000 miles of county roads to the state, taking their administration from 100 county boards, prying from pay rolls 600 local road officials. State control of city and county credit through formation of a local government commission to pass on all bond issues. State responsibility for financing the entire school system through state income, franchise and property taxes, acompanied by a 20 per cent reduction in school budgets. Anew revenue act, shifting $12,000,000 of tax burdens from real property to franchise, gas, inheritance, and income tax increases. Besides these. North Carolina adopted such administrative reforms as consolidation of the state university and establishment of a central purchasing system. Basic as are these steps toward centralization, the people of the state apparently are pleased. Paul V. formerly of Brookings, who served as Gardner’s technical adviser, reports: "So long as tax'relief is possible; people in North Carolina are little interested in such factors as preservation of the rights and prerogatives of local selfgovernment.” Modern transportation and communication have made larger governmental units possible. Oppressive taxes have made them necessary. Without sacrifice of efficiency or democracy, other states can do what North Carolina has done. That is one way to lower taxes. The Cost of Coal The cost of coal is fairly low in dollars, but terribly high in human happiness. How much a ton of coal takes out of an American family is being learned through leaks in the censorship that seeks to isolate the coal mine terror of eastern Kentucky. How it robs youth of life, limb and joy can be, learned from a report on boy labor in the mines of Pennsylvania. This report, just made public by the department of industry and labor of Pennsylvania, reveals that of 5,300 boys under 18 who toil in the state's coal mines, 739 in 1930 suffered accidents (this is one out of every seven). Five were killed and eleven permanently disabled. Most of the injured were between 16 and 17, while six were under 16. Coal mining is five times more hazardous than manufacturing, and boys are injured mere frequently than men in the bituminous fields. With millions of men seeking work, it seems a lamentable thing that boys should be sent down into mines to be worked, broken, and killed. Garage builders are in better shape than others in their line, a news item says. And they’ll keep busy just as long as women insist on backing their cars into the garage themselves. New York papers say government there costs $2,000,000 a day, but they probably mean misgovernment. Spring is just around the corner, says the weather man. From all this cold weather, you might think it was around the same corner as prosperity. Posterity always has affairs of its own to look after, .says Clarence Darrow. And we’re going to leave them a few more. A man in divorce court complained that his wife threw an alarm clock at him. He should have been thankful he didn’t own a grandfather clock. War may cost 70 per cent of the total sum spent by the national-government, but that still leaves 30 per cent for the politicians. An injured Hollywood movie extra must remain in a plaster cast for several months. Well, at least she’ll be in a cast regularly. Peace in China now seems assured. The only obstacles left to be overcome are the Japanese army and navy. The depression has changed many a lazy loafer into an unfortunate victim. Orly four kinds of taste exists, a scientist tell us. He must mean sweet, sour, bitter and spinach. The real trouble at Washington is that the government has been living beyond our incomes. Maine Republicans have indorsed a dry plank. Weil, all of us are not that close to Canada.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

THE rift in the home life of Harry Bannister and Ann Harding, motion picture actress, is a fine commentary on our current warped idea of marriage. The two are separating, so they say, because the husband is losing his identity and becoming a background for the activities of his wife. He is known in many places merely as Ann Harding’s husband. This demonstrates perfectly our subjection to a stupid tradition. After all, is there any logical reason why a wife should not be more famous than her husband, except the reason that is created by the male ego? Have not millions of gifted women lived within the shadow of less gifted husbands? Yet very little outcry ever is made about that injustice. Here we have a situation that is not unusual these days and that will grow more usual as women have opportunity to develop their talents. A husband and wife say they love each other. They have a child, a home. Yet they can not continue their relationship because the husband is receiving less public notice than the wife. Can men honestly say that they are fair, just, or even intelligent when they uphold such childishness? Does this arrogance mark a sex that is truly superior? * * ft I HEARTILY agree that no person should be compelled to live with a mate who dominates him and prevents the fullest development of his capabilities. I also am aware that such conditions exist in many marriages. But the fact that the spotlight has been turned for a little while upon the woman rather than upon the man should not create an untenable position in marriage. And the spotlight of the movies makes this attitude even more unjustifiable. For the chances are that, like most screen celebrities, Ann Harding's day will be brief. In this world, where all things pass, a strutting upon the stage is ended soon. It seems to me that the husband who can not bear fame for his wife, if he loves her, will not ever be likely to get much on his own accc&nt.

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Our Cue on War Debts Is to Shut Up and Let Europe Begin Negotiations. We Didn't Borrow the Money and Don’t Owe It. NEW YORK, April 16.—Whether those war debts should be re- ! duced, canceled, or let alone, it is poor policy for us to do all the j worrying. If European countries need a re- | adjustment, they can be depended jon to ask for it. Common decency : suggests that they be given a | chance to do so. This continuous ! parade of plans and advice on our j part must be offensively patronizing. • Besides, it is working us into a | position where we are likely to be j traded out of our shirts. What can a creditor expect after telling his debtors why and to what extent they should not pay? Or are we ! out to force repudiation on the world even against its will? nun Costly Meddling TO hear the chatter on this side of the Atlantic, one would think Europe did not have sense enough to add up its bills, much less to realize the pickle it is in. We take it upon ourselves to tell the people “over there” not only how much they owe, but how they j ought to get out of it. • Apparently, we can’t bear not to meddle, though meddling may be to our great disadvantage. Apparently, we are obsessed with the idea of telling other people what they should do. even to the detriment of our own interests. nun Europe’s Listening BUT don’t imagine that Europe is neglecting to keep a record of all the nonsense, or that Europe will neglect to make the best possible use of it when the time comes. Every little debt revision chicken we have hatched is coming home to roost one of these days, and we are not going to like the way some of them have grown between whiles. Every little scheme to soften the debt situation we have proposed, v/hether for politics, or just in fun, is going to be tossed right back at us when the time comes to trade. n n n We’ve Not Defaulted EUROPEANS merely are waiting to see how far we will go, to get us committed on every possible front, and we are foo'i r li enough to play right into their hands. It is not, and never has been our place to do the talking. We have not defaulted on payments to any one, or asked a moratorium. Except for its indirect bearing on credit and trade, we would be much better off if the debt settlement were to remain as is. There is no reason on earth why we should be interfering with it, yet we are. Interference has become a habit with us. We just can't stand to let other folks alone. nun Let’s Shut Up WHEN Europeans get good and ready, they will show us how to trade with regard to those war debts. They will give us all the plans we want, and then some. They will kick the ground from under our feet by quoting some of our own gratuitous gab. They will use our own propositions against us and spoil our arguments before w e have had time to make them. They will put the responsibility for readjustment, or repudiation, on us. They will leave us holding the bag not only in an economic, but a moral, sense. Our cue is to shut up and let Europe begin negotiations. That would square the issue with the facts. We did not borrow the money and we do not owe it. We stand in no need of revision, or cancellation. We should not permit ourselves to be placed in a position where we can be charged by future generations with encouraging, or suggesting a breach of contract. Assuming that such a thing is necessary, or legitimate under the circumstances, we should not take the initiative, even by inference.

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GERMANS ADVANCE April 16 April 16, 1918, three fresh German divisions were thrown into the battle on the Lys sector in France. After an all-day struggle they stormed Bailleul, Wulverghen and Wytschaete, and held the greater part of Messines ridge. German losses during the day were described as "very severe’’ by official British bulletins, which pointed out that British soldiers had been withdrawn to previously prepared positions only after hard fighting, in which their losses were small compared with those inflicted on the enemy. The German long-range gun again bombarded Paris, killing sixteen and wounding forty-two persons during the day. In the United States. Charles M. Schwab was appointed director-gen-eral of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. -

Daily Thought

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.—Proverbs 23:5. In bringing up the child, think of the old man.—Joubert. How many radios are there in the United States? How many radio stations? According to the latest census, there are 12,563,737 radio sets in this country. The radio division says that there are 603 broadcasting stations in the United States. What is the address of Dwight Davis? 17 Westmoreland Place, St. Louis. When was the S-51 sunk and how many of her crew were lost? The S-51 was lost by collision with the S. S. City of Rome, Sept. 25, 1925. Thirty-seven members of her crew were lost and three were saved.

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Friday’s Times: The Soap That Grows on Trees —The soap tree (Sapindus saponaria), which grows in the southern United States, usually is from 30 to 40 feet in height. The pulpy fruit, which contains saponariufn, makes a frothy mixture when combined with hot water and can be used as a substitute for "soap

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Skull Injury Needs Immediate Care

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association) and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. y^vCCASIONALLYsome one picked up unconscious on the street is thrown into a cell with the diagnosis—“drunk and disorderly” on the police blotter. Later it is found that the individual had a fracture of the skull from which he died before he came to trial. Physicians recognize that a person who suffers with an injury to his skull or to his spine needs immediate and well-advised treatment to save his life. A person found unconscious and in shock should be wrapped immediately in warm, woolen blankets,

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MR. L. T. G. of Montclair, N. J., wants to be a newspaper colunmist, and he would like information as to what he should do to achieve his ambition* The only answer to that is that a columnist does nothing. His appointment is a matter of sheer luck, and he serves through good fortune, rather than behavior. It is, I suppose, the easiest of all newspaper jobs, and I am not at all sure that the qualifying phrase of “newspaper”, is at all necessary. I blush profoundly whenever anybody says: “I don’t see how you do it. I mean writing six columns a week.” Outsiders fail to realize that producing a column every day is far simpler than creating one every week. Under the latter assignment, the public expects too much. It feels that the journalist has had seven whole days to think things over and that he ought to come out of that period of hibernation equipped with helpful suggestions, epigrams, and quips. n n Merely Matter of Rhythm BUT serfs of the daily stint are able to promulgate the notion that theirs is a fearful task, to be received with merciful allowances. I have found and also observed that one need be neither Milton nor Shakespeare to survive. “That's good enough, all things considered,” gets him by. Congressman Sirovich brought up an old problem when he complained to his legislative associates that many of the critics of the drama were former baseball reporters and prize fight experts. I did not quite feel that he was pointing in my direction, for it was only among actors that I was rated as * one technically familiar with baseball. Indeed,' after one world series story Chief Meyers, the Giant catcher, came up into the stands in search of me to make a personal protest against intrusting the art of baseball to any correspondent versed only in the dramatic unities. Having been shoved out of both the drama and the diamond, I sit more happily, since nobody expects a columnist to be expert about anything. Least of all the columnist himself, I may add. nun By Watching the Clock SUCH fortunate situations never come about through perseverance and hard work. Even ambition has little to do with it. All my life I have been a watcher of the clock and a worker who strived mightily to get by on the smallest amount of effort possible.

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in the laundering of linen and other textiles. The seeds of the fruits were formerly used as buttons. I saw the Sapindus berry used as soap during my stay in Algiers last year. , A Most Miraculous Escape From Death—ln January, 1931, while flying over Surrey, England, at a high altitude, the motor of Flight

because the loss of body heat at this time may lead to death. A physician immediately examines the skull for the presence of any open wound or laceration of the scalp, with a view to finding out promptly whether the skull has been injured. Os course, an X-ray picture should be taken as soon as the patient’s condition permits. The head of the unconscious person always should be kept lowered. If there happens to be any hemorrhage from the nose or ears, the patient should be put in a position where breathing will be as easy as possible. The physician who examines such a patient feels the pulse to know whether the circulation is going on correctly.

I owe what I humorously call “my success’’ to native sloth and acquired indolence. My first step upward I owe to the unfortunate state of a colleague’s liver. It troubled him into retirement, and he happened to be the book editor of the journal by which I was employed.Back in the dark ages of which I speak the status of a book critic was low, even when he managed to preserve his health. It was a job assigned to those not competent to read copy or hold down a reportorial assignment. And so I got the job. But even in this obscure post, my laziness came to the attention of the managing editor. I was supposed to say something about three novels each week, and that seemed to me a task beyond my strength. Accordingly, although the column most palpably was labeled “Books,” I strayed off into extraneous topics. One standard of ethics I did maintain. Never was I willing to say anything about an author’s offer unless I had perused the first twenty-five pages. Less conscientious reviewers frequently get themselves into trouble. I remember the mess which a friend of mine fell into. It was his custom to read the blurb upon the jacket or, failing that, to note the title of the book under consideration and make some neutral notes which seemed appropriate. One review sent to him he glanced at hastily and noted it down upon his list as “The Missing Gallon.” Naturally he thought it was a story about prohibition, and in his review he spoke of the book’s being a lively and exciting yarn concerning rum runners, revenue men and the coast guard. Later it turned out that he had been guilty of a typographical error in jotting down the title. It was actually “The Missing Galleon” and proved to be an historical novel about the Spanish Armada. The author was justifiably angry at the reviewer. * u * Evading the Issues BUT I made no mistake of that sort. At such times'as I had dipped into no books I wrote about buying a farm and rearing a son and a dog. The managing editor was not of a literary turn, and so he said, “I think your best book stuff is in those columns when you don’t mention any books.” After awhile we quit calling it “Books” and named the space “It Seems to Me,” so publishers should not be fooled. And so I would suggest to any

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Lieutenant H. M. A. Day’s plane froze, precipitating the machine 20,000 feet to the ground. Death seemed inevitable, but by some extraordinary trick of fate, hording on the miraculous, the flier escaped uninjured when he emerged to survey the ruins of his ship. Monday—Ripley in the South Seas.

If there is interference in the brain due to blood, the pulse is likely to become exceedingly slow and the breathing likewise. By putting a needle into the spinal cord, the physician determines whether there is blood in the spinal fluid. Presence of blood in this fluid indicates injury to the brain. Far too often a person who has had a head injury gets up promptly as soon as he begins to feel at all well and later relapses from a progressive condition. It is at this time that special care must be taken to detect the first signs of headache, dizziness, general weakness or disturbance of vision and hearing, which not infrequently follow injuries to the brain or to the spine.

Ideal* and opinions expressed in this co’nmn are those of one of America’s most interesting: writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with th editorial attitnde of this paper.—The Editor.

newspaper recruit who is columnisticallv inclined that he make a point of not working too hard and of picking a paper upon which the men above him are not in particularly good health. In my more mature years I have begun to feel an excutive itch, and recently It has been my practice to ask the managing editor each day, “And how are you feeling?” He doesn’t seem to like it. I’m afraid that he is sensitive, or maybe superstitious. (Copyright. 1932. bv The Time*)

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How many successive years must a teacher serve before he is considered a tenure teacher? Can a trustee refuse to hire a tenure teacher without due cause? A teacher must serve five years, and must receive a contract for the sixth year to become a tenure teacher. A trustee must show cause, as outlined in the tenure law, to discharge a tenure teacher. What is the address of Alfred E. Smith? Empire State Building, New York, N. Y.

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APRIL 16, 1933

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

A Literary Ramble With A. L. De Leeuw Will Teach You Many Scientific Facts. MODERN physics is chiefly a way of looking at things. The universe in 1932 Is the same universe that it was in 1880. But scientists have found out a lot of new things about it and as a result they have achieved anew way of viewing the universe. The scientist, having to deal with other scientists, naturally has built up a terminology to express these new views. This is only a natural and necessary procedure and not proof of a plot upon the part of scientists to conceal their findings from ordinary mortals. The baseball fans follow exactly the same procedure. He talks about “sacrifice hits” and “squeeze plays,’* and the like. But it is easy to read the baseball news, because most of us played baseball in our school days. All of us, however, did not make the acquaintance of theoretical physics in our school days. And some of those who did, have failed to keep abreast the latest developments. Consequently, many readers who would like to catch up with the new developments in the world of physics find themselves baffled by the technical vocabulary of the physicist. To all who find themselves in that predicament, I recommend a book | just published named “Rambling Through Science.” M * u A Skilled Guide A. L. DE LEEUW, a well-known engineer, is the author of “Rambling Through Science.” It is published by Whittlesey House at $2.50. The style of De Leeuw is as informal as the title of the book. The book is literally a ramble, a slow, easy jaunt through the fields of modern science. But it is by no means an aimless ramble. The reader may not know where he is bound when he plunges into the first chapter. But De Leeuw has laid out the path with the skill of a veteran guide—and while the reader never would guess It in a million years, De Leeuw has started him upon an understanding of nothing less than the Einstein theory. How could the reader guess it? Here is the simple and easy start of that first chapter: “Did you ever ride in a fast railroad train when another train met you, going in the opposite direction, and the engineers, according to their habit, saluted each other by blowing their whist? es? “If so, did you notice that the whistle of the other train made different sounds, one higher and one lower? Did you notice that you heard the- higher note when the other train came toward you, and that, suddenly, this note changed to a lower one when the engine passed you? “If you have not already noticed it, keep this in mind and try it out on your next railroad ride. Professor Rijke of Leiden noticed it, too, one day, but was not satisfied with merely noticing it; he wanted to know the reason why . . .” And then De Leeuw goes on and explains this phenomenon since known to science as “Rijke’s phenomenon.” It is a matter of sound waves. More waves reach your ear per second when the other train is approaching you than when it is receding from you. n n n Step by Step AND so, before he knows it, the reader has mastered a formidable scientific concept, namely “Rijke's phenomenon.” From that, so the reader will find, it is an easy step to the "Doppler effect,” and from that another easy step to the fundamental relativity principle that observations are relative to the observer. In similar fashion, with the aid of a spider spinning his web in a room, De Leeuw introduces the reader to the concept of "Cartesian co-ordinates.” And so. step by step, the reader builds up a knowledge of the fundamental concepts of modern physics. A list of some of the chapters serves to indicate the style of the book and some of the ground covered: ‘‘About Spiders and the Fourth Dimension,” “How Tall Are You?” “A New Peg to Hang Our Things On,” “Things to Hang on the New Peg,” “About Bowling Balls and the Solar System.” A large part of modem scientific theory is based upon what is known as the “law of probability.” De Leeuw introduces the reader to this in a chapter called “Gambling.” Another Important law, the first law of thermodynamics, is known as the “law of the conservation of energy.” This, the reader meets in a chapter titled “The Market of the Universe.” I recommend “Rambling Through Science” to all readers who would spend pleasant hours catching up with the newest views of science. Is a blue discharge from the army a dishonorable discharge? It is a discharge “not under honorable circumstances.” It is neither an honorable nor a dishonorable discharge. The color distinguishes It from the other discharges.