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The Democratic Platform The Democrats can sweep the country by nominating a presidential candidate as. good as the platform. A President wise enough and courageous enough to keep those platform pledges can lead the nation in beating back depression and restoring prosperity. The platform is the shortest, the clearest and the best advanced by either of the two parties in recent times. On prohibition repeal and immediate Volstead modification it goes all the way. On economic issues in the main it is boldly progressive. It proposes definite banking and credit reform, shorter hours for labor, a 25 per cent cut in government expenses and a balanced budget, taxation based on ability to pay, direct unemployment relief by states with federal aid, public works, state old age and unemployment insurance. On foreign affairs it favors the world court, strengthening the Kellogg pact, arbitration, Philippine independence, and opposes foreign intervention. Os course, the platform is not perfect. It Baiters on tariff; it evades such issues as [Russian recognition and civil liberties. But, as a whole and as a major party platform, it is unique in its clarity and its courage. It is the kind of brief and honest platform first proposed by Newton D. Baker and urged by Alfred E. Smith. The Republican platform consists of 10,000 words of evasion. The Republicans picked a candidate to match their platform. The Democratic platform’s 1,300 words are a charter of hope and leadership. To nominate just another Hoover like Franklin Roosevelt would nullify that platform. The Democrats should give the country a leader who will put their words into action. The Dike Against Chaos In his appreciative defense of Herbert Hoover, entitled “The Truth About Hoover,” Herbert Corey refers to our chief executive as a “Dike Against Chaos.” He assumed this role during the World war and notably ha.s lived up to this characterization ever since. Using the warlike symbolism, Corey thus describes the administration's efforts to restore prosperity since 1929: “As I see it, his strategy—for I am returning to the tanhliar phrases of the war, is found in three parts. “He fell back before the invader, giving ground only as he was forced, just as Father Joffrc did on the Marne. By cushioning the shock, he was enabled to preserve social order. “He organized the forces of relief to minimize the sufferings of those who were out of work. The health commissioners of mast states reported to him, late in 1931 and early in 1932, that the country's health never has been better. "Hoover began to prepare the organization which Khali in the end repel the invader and restore prosperity.” , It is interesting to compare this estimate of Mr. Hoover's rehabilitation program with that offered by the most distinguished of American economists. Professor Rexford G. Tugwell of Columbia university. Speaking before the combined faculty and student body of teachers college at Columbia university, Dr. Tugwell charges that Hoover has been interested in protecting privilege rather than in securing relief; that he has preferred to gamble on good luck, rather than to plan profoundly to produce recovery; that suen policies invite a worse crash or even revolution; and that, almost without exception, all the Hoover policies have been condemned by the overwhelming majority of expert American economic opinion: “It is not too much to say, with the current exhibits of executive recommendation and congressional action before us that our whole program in this emergency has been framed with reference to the protection of privilege rather than with reference to any calculated and fearless analysis of cause and cure. That is why so much of it is futile. . . . "The administration preferred to stake everything on a gamble that the depression would end as suddenly as it appeared to have begun. Prosperity officially was declared -to be just around the corner,’ and administrative satellites seemed to spend most of their time invoking magic of one sort or another. . . . The administrative optimism of this period was so dogmatic and so absurd as to have become one of the great comic interludes of our history . . . “The relief of the suffering among the unemployed has been voluntary, insufficient and delayed; it has been administered as a kind of degrading charity; and the federal government carefully has avoided the admission of any responsibility for it. "But the support of threatened property values, once the administration's bland denials had been swept aside by the determined cohorts of business, has been nationally organized, energetic, and carried out with typical American elan. . . . ‘The real criticism of the measures (to protect property and privilege) is that they have stolen the public attention and usurped the official ingenuity which should have been devoted to remedial action. Nothing of all that so far has been done is more than temporarily and dangerously conservative. “"It is justifiable to say ‘dangerously,’ because a failure of the cycle to turn upward in the near future and to be characterized by rising prices, at once will disclose the artificiality of the values we are attempting now to support with a considerable part of our federal resources. And the resulting crash will be more disastrous than a slow subsidence would have been. . . . “Such ruthless exploitation, such ungenerous grasping, finally may engender revolutionary attitudes, If not during this depression, then during some succeeding one. “And why should it not. since so little is conceded to sympathy, to justice, or even to a stable future? Only in emergencies, when fright is in the air are some few’ concessions wrung from a reluctant government group. . . . “Our public policy durir-g this depression has been outrageously partial and consistently short-sighted. It has been shaped, also, in direct contravention of •conomists’ advice. In no single instance of which I

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am aware has any item of official policy been supported by the opinion of experts. “They usually do not agree among themselves any more than other experts do; but this has*been exceptional—there has been a remarkably consistent, practically unanimous running comment of condemnation directed at the policies of the administration.” Repeal at Last At last prohibition repeal is in sight. The Democratic platform joins the issue. It is frank. It is fair. It goes the whole way. Repeal is in sight because this plank represents more than a convention of political delegates, more than a party. It was dictated to the platform writers by a vast majority of American voters. These American freemen have made the prohibition experiment. They have watched it multiply the evils it was to eradicate. They have seen it corrupt youth. They have stood by, helpless and horrified, while it bred crime and degraded government. Now they demand the return of personal liberty 1 and state rights which they sacrificed on the wrong road to the great goal of temperance. The Democratic plank seems to us a model. It recognizes that a law which does not rest on the consent of the governed is tyranny that can not be enforced. It turns to the states their rightful duty of abolishing or regulating the liquor traffic in conformity with the varying will of the states and their citizens, leaving to the federal government the protection of those states in their decision to be either dry or wet. The method proposed for this restoration of liberty and sanity is the most direct and democratic; “.We favor repeal of the eighteenth amendment. To effect such repeal, we demand that congress immediately propose a constitutional, amendment to truly representative conventions in the states, called to act solely on that proposal.” By going on to urge immediate modification of the Volstead law to legalize—and to tax—beer and light wines, pending repeal, the Democratic party proves its courage and its complete good faith as an opponent of national prohibition. The Democrats have made a wise move politically. But they have done more than that. They have begun to free America from one of the most tragic mistakes in our legislative history. Sun-Kissed Stupidity Very few people know that William Z. Foster is Communist candidate for the United States presidency and few believe the Communist claim that free speech and assemblage exist chiefly in the American Constitution. But California is doing its best to advertise Mr. Foster’s candidacy and help in the spread of his doctrines. On Tuesday Los Angeles’ miscalled “intelligence squad” struck down Foster, hurled gas bombs into the midst of a meeting of people gathered to hear him protest the shooting of a jobless man in an earlier police raid upon a private home, and arrested Foster and three companions on a charge of “suspicion of criminal syndicalism.” Now millions will read about Mr. Foster's candidacy and many will sympathize with his claim. And thus does that state that holds innocent Mooney and Billings in jail do radicalism another service. The charge against Foster is suspicion of advocacy of violence. The charge against California is the commission of a violent and stupid deed. Life in a city certainly is annoying. If some motorist isn’t tearing down the street, some contractor is tearing it up. Automobile manufacturers say they never know how anew car will strike the man in the street. Plenty hard, we would say. Many of our movie stars were so worried over prospective salary cuts that their hair turned platinum over night. A Chicago musician observes that nothing pleases a girl so much as a big brass band. Unless it's a platinum-inset-with-diamonds one, of course. One of the revolting politicians says the United States needs a third strong party. But why not start in the beginning and develop one strong party first? A wire report says that a kick from a mule restored a man’s speech. But what the world was really interested in, is what he said. Tlie most disgruntled man in town is the one who has to walk five blocks to catch a trolley on Monday after playing 36 holes of golf on Sunday.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TO a statement in this column that men have been more preoccupied with women's bodies than with their minds, a reader who forgot to sign his name sends this observation: ‘ What does a woman offer a man these days aside from her body? What chance has he of getting in marriage anything more than a pair of legs and a pamt-bedaubed visage? Let woman learn to show more of her soul and less of her legs and watch our social life move upward toward a cleaner and happier existence.” I am aware that this has a splendid ring. But the gentleman who wrote it was prompted by animosity rather than reason. For it is a matter of common knowledge that it was not until we began to show oqr legs that men became cognizant of our minds. Every time we removed a layer of clothing, we got another citizenship right. During the era when a fellow considered it a wellspent day if he caught a glimpse of a girl's ankle, men were concerned almost exclusively with women's bodies—and many were the jolts poor bridegrooms received to find that some of those lovely feminine curves were fake. a a a IT S all very well to talk about women showing more soul and less leg. so that social life may be improved. but. there's not much sense to the theory, just the same. If we consider that the rights of women to justice and happiness in marriage should be as great as those of men. then our social system is a distinct improvement over that of several generations ago. To be sure, the men haven’t got things quite so fine. There are fewer “yes women” and well-trained domestic servants willing to serve a life sentence without pay except grumbles, but, in the main, all of us have more chances for happiness. Whether we swathe ourselves in raiment from head to toe, or whether we go about in the nude, women are and always will be about the same, a mixture of good and evil, quick to appreciate and respond to affection and ready to shoulder their share of the burdens of the family and society. t

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Says: i For Once the American People Are Clamoring to Vote on an Issue; When This Happens, Look Out! YORK. June 30.—This is one campaign in which the platform will count for more than the candidate, and all because of a single issue. You do not need be told what that issue is. For once, the American people are clamoring to vote on a matter of public policy. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does, look out! The Republican party was bom of just such a situation in 1856, and the Bull Moose movement fiftyeight years later. When the old parties fail to function, there is no alternative but to create anew one. Those leaders who look on straddling and sidestepping as the best way to save their party have misread history. Also, they have misread public sentiment. U U M Storm Is Breaking A STORM is brewing around the eighteenth amendment, and has been for several years. If not recognized and handled intelligently, it will play havoc with party organizations as we know them today. Originally, the eighteenth amendment was looked upon as a simple regulation with regard to the liquor traffic. People were for it. or against it, according to their ideas of temperance. Temperance long since has ceased to be the all-important question. No one thinks of the eighteenth amendment in that light today. The changes it has wrought in our administration of justice, our governmental structure, and our social conditions have served to obscure all other considerations. We find ourselves in a dangerous state of mind toward law, because of this overly ambitious attempt to make people sober by statute. We find ourselves oppressed by heavy taxes, chiefly because vast sums of money have been diverted from support of the government to support of organized lawlessness. We find our children being educated by the example of their elders to regard authority with cynicism and contempt. tt tt M Parties Must Act POLITICAL leaders—many of them, at least—tell us that while the situation is graVe, it is not grave enough to warrant either of the major parties in taking a definite stand. It is of nonpartisan character, they argue, and should be approached in nonpartisan spirit. At the same time, they extol the party system a, essential to good government, insist that it be preserved at any cost, and pretend that a noncommittal attitude on prohibition is in the interest of its preservation. Bunk! What do we have parties for if not to express ourselves on issues as they arise? If we find it necessary, or possible, to express ourselves on such issues without parties, what is going to become of them? Those political leaders who advocate a straddle on prohibition are creating a situation which proves nothing so distinctly as the uselessness of our political parties as they exist. If the American people solve this difficult problem without the straightforward, or even halfhearted, assistance of either party, what are they going to think? More than that, what are they going to do? They are going to do what sensible people always have done when they have discovered that the agencies intended to accomplish a specific purpose had failed. They are going to develop new and improved machinery. If one party, or the other, does not furnish us effectual means for grappling with the prohibition issue, a third party will be formed.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—While listening to the broadcast of the Republican national convention in Chicago, I was surprised to find the number of nationally known wealthy people in key positions. For example; the national committeeman from Connecticut owns and controls one of the largest power trusts in the east; from Maryland, the committeeman is the largest lumber merchant in that state, also in the eastern part of the country. In fact, without exception, every committeeman mentioned in the radio program is a man representing large financial interests. Why have we, and do we, submit to being governed by men of tremendous wealth, who can not possibly get the viewpoint of the average citizen making up the vast majority of voters? Believe me, when I say that the Maryland committeeman gets the power trust’s point of view first and his viewpoint for the citizenship of his state second. These extremely wealthy representatives of big moneyed interests are responsible beyond all reasonable doubt for the lobbyists who continually are pestering our congressmen. Instead of serving a writ of eviction against the poor tenant, we should serve it on the rotten lobbyists. This will enable the congressman to advance an unbiased opinion on bills submitted to the senate. In other words, the good of his home state will be foremost in his mind. I believe there are two kinds of successful business men, one who uses his financial standing to influence his government to enact bills for his selfish needs, and the openminded successful business man who has sense enough to stay out of politics as long as it is polluted with the two-faced individuals now representing the people. The really successful business man is too busy being a success and would not consider entering politics. The solution as I see it is for every true American to rally round tfie man and party who will have guts enough to state clearly their platform. so you and I can put things together and vote the ticket which most reprsents our needs. X. Y. Z. What is the address of former President Calvin Coolidge? \ Northampton, Mass.

‘Far From the Madding Crowd!’

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Canning Causes Little Vitamin Loss

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hvgela, the Health Magazine. IT has been learned from careful investigation that cooking and preserving of foods occasionally interferes somewhat with the qualities of some of their constituents. In cooking and canning vegetables, sometimes the important salts are lost, sometimes the vitamins are destroyed, sometimes the carbohydrates and proteins are modified. In a survey which presents the most recent views of the subject, it is pointed out that vitamins A, D and E and a part of vitamin B are little, if any, destroyed by the canning process. This is in direct contradiction of the common belief. * The vitamin B portion is that which is concerned with pellagra. These vitamins are to be ‘found in canned goods to about the same extent that as in raw foods. The remaining portion of vitamin B which is associated with neurotic symptoms is more or less destroyed in canning. Long continued heat favors its destruction and the presence of acid favors its preservation. Because most canned fruits are acid in their reaction in the can and because they are subject to lower temperatures and shorter pe-

IT SEEMS TO ME

CHICAGO, June 30.—For a brief period Wednesday it seemed as if the Democratic convention were about to be stampeded for a reliable tooth paste and a good low-priced automobile. In fact, lam not at all sure at the moment of writing that “see your dentist twice a year” is not going to be one of the planks in the platform. It would be ungenerous for the Democrats to do less, since Amos ‘n’ Andy combined in a keynote address which easily topped that of Walsh or Barkley. For almost two hours the party conclave was turned into an intimate musical show, with Eddie Dowling as master of ceremonies. There was some excellent material in the attraction, but if it were a Heywood Broun presentation I would have routined it quite differently. Still, after all, what can you expect from these amateur producers? This strange interlude in the Democratic proceedings was caused by the delay in the .findings of the platform committee, which, as later developed, was nerving itself up to go wet and trying to do it one toe at a time. The house was a sellout and with 20,000 people present and nobody on the regular bill to entertain them, except Senator Tom Walsh, things looked a little desperate. tt # U fregers Wins Silver Cup SUCH stage waits have occurred even in the best regulated conventions, and it has been the custom to call on famous party orators to fill in the gap. But this did not seem feasible. If any active politician took the platform, the delegates were afraid that he might use the time to start a boom for himself as President.

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riods of heating during canning they retain more of vitamin 81, also known as vitamin F, than do canned vegetables. Acid substances also seem to favor the retention of Vitamin C, so that canned fruits also provide more Vitamin C than do canned vegetables. Regardless, however, of whether the canned material is acid or alkaline, the presence of a considerable amount of oxygen at the time the material is cooked and the presence of copper, or some similar agent, which hastens oxidation, will destroy Vitamin C. For this reason, commercial processes which remove air from the can before it is sealed and heated retain more Vitamin C than is retained in food canned at home. It is said that the commercial canners have had trouble in canning tomato juice because, the preliminary heating before canning results in a considerable destruction of Vitamin C if air is allowed to get in contact with the juice when it is expressed from the skins and seeds of the tomato. However, since tomatoes have such a large amount of Vitamin C to begin with, tomato juice and all of its concentrates are still rich in this vitamin after canning. Moreover, the Vitamin C content of canned fruits has been found to

DV HEYWOOD BY BROUN

In the crisis, Eddie Dowling was mustered into service and for the next two hours the Chicago stadium became a night club, lacking only cover charges and setups. And, for that matter, some of the favorite sons readily could have assumed the latter function. As I have said, the bill, like most benefits, was a little mixed in merits. Will Rogers won hands down the silver cup which ought to be presented for the best convention speech of the year. He was the first orator to leave the platform with shouts of “more! more!” ringing in his ears. He announced at the beginning, “I'm going to stand here and play the fool until the Democratic party agrees on prohibition. I'll be here from now on.” But the speech of Mr. Rogers was wise, adroit, and witty. I think it is a little ironical that the same convention which thinks Will Rogers is a clown accepts Huey Long as a statesman. tt tt tt Will Bars Parade STILI Mr. Rogers noted the resemblance and met one burst of laughter and applause with outstretened hand, saying. “Listen, I'm like Senator Long; don't take up all my time with applause.” And after another sally, which set some of the standards to waving, he remarked, “no parade, please.” In recent years Mr. Rogers and I have differed on many problems of political high policy. At least, I've differed. Many of his published witticisms have seemed to me ill-timed, but on his performance before the Democratic convention I am returned to my an-

be adequate by one investigator nine months after the food first was canned, and by another investigator three years after the food first was canned. ‘ a tt DRIED fruits, such as peaches, apricots and prunes also seem to retain their vitamins, but in varying degrees. Peaches retain 86 per cent to 100 per cent, apricots 16 per cent to 51 per cent and prunes 24 per cent to 91 per cent, of their vitamin A when dried under the best conditions. Even so, the dried apricots contained more vitamin A than did the best peaches and prunes, because they contained so much more vitamin A in the fresh product. The investigator found that storage at zero for more than a year did not bring about a loss of vitamin A in either dried apricots or prunes. Several investigators have found that dried peaches retained vitamin C to a greater extent than did some other fruits. At a time when everything possible is being done to lower food costs, and to bring about greater utilization of the valuable materials, it is satisfying to know that the canned and dried materials are adequate for human nutrition.

ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those ol one of America’s most interesting: writers and are presented witboat regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitnde of this paper.—The Editor.

cient opinion that he is the best impromptu speaker in America. Os course he was well spotted on the bill. Nobody ought to fail utterly, coming after Barkley and Walsh. I’d even venture to get up and tell the mule story after that pair. Asa matter of fact, I did have a chance to rise to my feet and take a bow, although the invitation did not include the privilege of a few remarks. My big chance came a little late in the session. Eddie Dowling, running out of talent as the time wore on, called on Max Steuer, Mr. Curry, Dudley Field Malone, Samuel Untermeyer, McCooey and forty or fifty other names, rather indiscriminately selected from the field of press and politics. n n Circus Is Good "lITHEN my name was men- ™ ~ tioned, there seemed to be a good deal less than an insistent demand for me to get bp and show myself, so I kept my seat. Besides I'm not bowing to Democrats this year, until I find out whom they intend to nominate. I do not know whether the Democrats are going to give the people bread, but they certainly put on an elegant circus. I doubt if even the regular proceedings will be half as funny. Father Coughlin, the radio priest, switched the mood rather suddenly by delivering a sermon. It is my painful duty to report that when he mentioned the Lord there was no more than polite applause. Will Rogers did much better. No, there couldn't be any complaints on the entertaining nature of the session, but I am speculating about scenes which may have occurred in the homes of distant members of the invisible audience. It might be a little suprising, for instance, if some father said to his adolescent son, “and now, my boy, I want you to take an interest in important things, such as the welfare of your country. “I am going to tune in and let you listen while you hear what these great statesmen have to say about unemployment, the tariff, and our foreign relations.” He swings the dials and gets Eddie Dowling, singing “Sleepy Valley.” • Convrieht. 1332. bv The Times)

Daily Thoughts

The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speakest proud things—Psalms 12.3. A woman would be in despair if Nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear.—Mile, de l'Espinasse.

.JUNE 30, 1932;

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Discovery of Pluto Breaks Down Many Theories With Regard to Planets, Asteroids and Comets. SHARP distinctions among planets, asteroids and comets appear to be breaking down in the face of recent astronomical discoveries. These new discoveries, incidentally, may have considerable bearing upon theories of the origin of the solar system and related problems. Prior to the discovery of the planet Pluto and the very recent discoveries of asteroids of peculiar behavior, the distinctions between planets, asteroids and comets were easily stated. The planets, then eight in number, revolved in orbits which were nearly circular. The asteroids, or “little planets,” 1.000 or more In number, revolved in orbits a little more flattened than those of the planets in the gap between Mars and Jupiter. The comets were more erratic objects, moving in orbits of great eccentricity. Then on March 13, 1930, the Lowell observatory at. flagstaff. Ariz., announced the discovery of the planet Pluto. The late Prof. Percival Lowell had predicted the existence of a tans-Neptuniarf planet and had founded the observatory at Flagstaff with the search for the planet as one of its major objectives. But Prof. Lowell had anticipated a planet much like Uranus or Neptune. In fact, he had based his belief in the planet’s existence on certain irregularities in the orbit of Uranus which such a planet would cause. # n tt First Thought Comet OUT study of the orbit of Pluto U led to a variety of opinions. It became apparent at once that Pluto was not the sort of planet that Lowell had anticipated, and that it could not be responsible for the irregularities in the orbit of Uranus. At first, some astronomers even insisted that it was no planet at all. but a comet or asteroid. It now is generally agreed that it must be a planet, since its size, though much smaller than that of Uranus or Neptune, is somewhere between that of Mars and the earth. That is. its diameter is between 4,000 and 8,000 miles. Its orbit, however, is much more like that of an asteroid than that of any of the other planets. The orbit possesses so great an eccentricity that the planet's distance from the sun varies by 1,800,000 miles. When Pluto is nearest the sun, it is closer than is Neptune. But due to the fact that Pluto’s orbit is inclined at a considerable angle to the general plane of the orbits of the other planets, the orbits of Neptune and Pluto do not cross each other. Many astronomers think that Pluto must be related to the asteroids and that it may prove the first of a series of trans-Ncptunian planets with asteroid-like qualities. This would seem to indicate that any theory to account for the asteroids and their behavior also must take some note of Pluto and the possibility of other planets like Pluto. tt tt tt Mysterious Objects THE situation with respect to the asteroids was further still complicated by discovery of the two newest members of the solar system, now recognized as asteroids, but regarded with so much bewilderment at the time of their discovery that they were referred to mysteriously as “objects.” The two new asteroids are the “Delporte object,” discovered by Professor Delporte of Brussels, and the “Reinmuth object,” discovered by Professor Reinmuth of Heidelberg. At first it also was supposed that these two objects might be comets. While astronomers officially have decided that they are asteroids, they have also come to the conclusion that the difference between asteroids and comets is not so great as once was believed, and that in some cases ti may be possible to regard an object as either. The asteroids in general exist within the gap between Mars and Jupiter. One, however, crosses within the orbit of Mars, several are about as far off as Jupiter, and one even as an orbit which extends out to that of Saturn. The chief marks of the orbits of the asteroids in general is their great irregularity. The orbits are neither concentric nor evenly spaced. There are zones or gaps, however, in which no asteroids occur. Until the discovery of the two new asteroids, the one which approached closest to the earth was Eros, an asteroid which came within 14,000,000 miles of the earth at certain times. It now appears that both the Delporte object and the Reinmuth object will make closer approaches to the earth, the Reinmuth object also being unusual in that one end of its orbit appears to cross that of Venus. According to present calculations, the Delporte object may approach to within 12,000,000 miles of the earth, while the Reinmuth object will approach to within 3,000,000 miles of the earth.

m TODAY *3 'yf* IS THE- SV ''world war \ ANNIVERSARY

ITALIAN VICTORY June 30 ON June 30. 1918, Italian shock troops, supported by British and French artillery, ‘ stormed Monte di Valbella. They clung to their newly won positions despite several fierce counter-thrusts. Defeat of the Austrian offensive and successful counter-offensive operations by the Italians disclosed what military observers believed to be a vital spot in the defense of the central powers—in short. AustriaHungary was on the verge of disintegration. The British war office announced that British planes had brought down 4,102 enemy aircraft during the year ended June 30. Os this number, 2.150 were brought down on the western front alon*. Further disorders were reported in the interior of Austria.