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A Literary Sensation Today there is presented to the world a book, written by an anonymous author, which is quite certain to become a literacy sensation. Under the title of "Before the Curtain Palls,•' Bobbs -Merrill publishes a volume which probably will be condemned for its obscenity and profanity and praised for its frequent flights of high idealism. It presents the disillusion of a college boy who Went to war, later served at the peace conference and as an agent of the Red Cross in many lands after the war. Asa protest against war, the book will please the advocates of peace. Asa destroyer of some of the illusions concerning government and politics, it is mere than dynamite. There will be an inevitable discussion as to the necessity of portraying with too much realism the scenes in the trenches or the language of the dugout. There will be more discussion as to the value df Trank confession of conduct of this particular youth on his mission to “save the world for democracy.” But that it is destined to become the most discussed book of the year, there seems little doubt. A Deeper Deficit or— This campaign in its latter phases is becoming one of immense figures cm federal finance that are of acute importance to all of us. Governor Roosevelt and Speaker Gamer have claimed the size of the impending treasury deficit will force congress to balance again a budget that never really was balanced. Now Treasury Secretary Mills has admitted indirectly the deficit, which conservative independent tax experts previously had estimated wil} be about a billion dollars “on paper.” What are the facts? The treasury, already running behind by more than half a billion dollars, is confronted with the strong possibility that yield from the new nuisance taxes may be some $200,000/100 short by next June. Yield from the new’ and high income taxes also may be short. To this $200,000,000 should be added the $322,000,000 emergency appropriation for federal construction. The result* forecasts an operating deficit of at least $500,000,000. If our foreign debtors fail to pay, and if congress this winter “is called upon to enact further measures for relief of unemployment, business, and agriculture, the deficit will be much larger. The reverse side of this problem concerns itself with federal outgo. The Democratic platform pledges a 25 per cent reduction in expenditures. Roosevelt has made this same promise, but has failed to say hpw, aPd when, and where. Hoover* scofling at the Democrats’ “rash promises” of lopping off a billion, pledged himself in the same breath to reduce appropriations by a billion and a half. And he promised this reduction based on 1932 appropriations. His own partisans started claiming last July that, even in this fiscal year, appropriations were reduced a billion dollars below 1932. How can any such promises be achieved honestly? This fiscal year appropriations total more than $4,000,000,000. They include more than $900,000,000 for relief of World war veterans, and more than $700,000,000 for the army and navy, including SIOO,000,000 for nonmilitary activities of the former. Now Roosevelt must, realize that if he is to approximate his goal, it is these two appropriations that must be slashed. President Hoover, apparently, has that realization. But he stands, as usual, firmly against reductions in appropriations for the army and navy and reductions in veterans’ relief he says will mean “gross injustice.” Putting claims aside, where can congress intent upon economy turn to accomplish it? •It may chip off a few million dollars here and there, it may renew the federal salary cut, and cut out a bureau or two. But, failing a general reorganization of governmental machinery, which will take much thought and much time, the only big reductions possible are in the three items which Hoover will not cut and Roosevelt hasn’t mentioned with clarity. But, even if these three appropriations are reduced drastically, the saving of a billion out of them is practically impossible. Hence it would appear that the budget can not be balanced by economies alone, as Mills indirectly has promised. Wt must turn, then, to additional taxes. The income rates already are as high as reasonably can De expected under present conditions and from the present congress. The sales tax was defeated decisively at least twice. The only important remaining source of new federal revenue is beer. This beverage, if permitted to have sufficient alcoholic content to assure steady consumption, will yield from $200,000,000 to $300,000,000 a year, if taxed at, say $6 a barrel. If more states relaxed their unpopular dry laws and the tax were increased moderately, perhaps $400,000,000 to $500,000,000 might be realized. Roosevelt favors such beer tax; Hoover has said nothing about it. While even the latter amount would not balance the budget, it so would improve the treasury’s condition as to eliminate any further immediate fear of our country’s finances. The security of your savings and the security of your Job depend in large part upon a solvent federal government, whose credit is perfectly sound. A Beer Tax at Once 1 The one means by which the government may Hope to avoid the financial bog into which it is slipping is, as said, the beer tax. This is becoming more and more clear. The courttry is ready to accept it. Democratic spokesmen, led by Governor Roosevelt, sense this fact and are putting increased emphasis ojn their ad.ocacy of this essential measure. So silent are the orators of the opposition party on the issue that it is perfectly obvious they now would be engaged in outdoing the Democrats iif support of such a tax were it not for the weird pronouncement •on prohibition dictated to their Chicago convention by President Hoover. Monday night, in Newark, A1 Smith entertained himself and an enthusiastic crowd with his picturesque description of the fix into which the 3. O. P. has got itself by its duplicity on the sublect of liquor. But he did something much more important than amuse a delighted audience. With his rare gift for gathering any situation into a nutshell, he drove home the urgent need for action on this question, not at some distant date, but at once. “Now is the time to settle this question,” said Smith. "Let me impress upon my listeners in every

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part of the country that if you don’t settle this question on Nov. 8, there is no use of holding any pro-, test meetings in January. "There is no use of gathering in solemn conclave and ‘whereastng’ the government. That won’t get you ary place. Now is the time to settle it. "And it must be settled by the election of Democratic congressmen, because they are the ones pledged by platform to this performance.” Christianity and Communism Communism today rests mainly on a materialistic rather than a religious or spiritual basis. Marx, not Jesus, is the major prophet. Yet we often hear of the early Christian Communism w’hich existed in the Jerusalem community In the age of the apostles. This is discussed in cogent fashion by Gustavus Adolphus Steward in his article on “First Century Communism” In The World Tomorrow. The acts of the Apostles thus describes the ideals and practices of this early Christian Communistic community: "And the multude of them that believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them said that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things in common . . . For neitherwas there among them any that lacked; for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them at the apostles’ feet; and distribution was made to each, according as any one had need.” Steward contrasts the former popularity of this passage with the frigid avoidance which now meets it in our churches since the Russian Communistic experiment has made this way of life a social achievement of practical moment: "It once was a favorite lesson for family devotions. Its social content was the foundation of family ethics. Its idealistic economics enthusiastically were expounded to penny-clutching urchins in bygone Sunday school classes, while the society it depicts formerly was lauded by entranced sermonizers as that of the kingdom of heaven itself. "How often are these phrases heard today? What parent, however devout, would care to have his fellow Christians know that he instructed his children in, this subversive doctrine? What clergyman, ever consecrated, would dare to urge his congregation to adopt this elementary share-and-share-alike tenet of the religious system he professes to uphold? Steward proceeds to show how Christianity has capitulated to the “profit motive and the power motive” and thus crushed out the Christian impulse toward Communism. His criticism of the practices and ideals of Christian capitalists, giants of industry and patrioteers is bold and relevant. Yet those whom he criticises can quote back at him just as good Christian doctrine justifying their practices. Witness, for example, the parable of ths talents in Matthew XXV: "A man going into another country called his own servants and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his several ability; and he went on his journey. “Straightway he that received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents. In like manner he also that received the two gained another two. But he that received the one went away and digged in the earth and hid his lord’s money. * • "Now after a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and maketh a reckoning with them. And he that received the five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, lord, thou deliveredst*unto me five talents: 10, I have gained other five talents. "His lord said unto him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord . . . “And he also that had received the one talent came and said, T waa afraid and went away and hid thy talent in the earth: 10, thou hast thine own.’ But his lord answered and said unto him, ‘Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou oughtest to have put my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine own with interest. "Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him that hath the ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away.” Therefore, if Acts upholds Moscow', Matthew justifies the attitudes and policies of Hoover, * Mellon, Strawn, Schwab and others. But the main point is that either profit and power of Communism must be justified by the facts of today, rather than the traditions of the past. The report that Samuel Insull had hidden away a large sum of money must have impressed some of the stockholders as adding Insull to injury. Two million gallons of medicinal whisky will be made next year. There doesn’t seem to be any depression among ailments for which whisky is supposed to be beneficial.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“ a BLUNT MAN” sends me this message: “If you women persist in the refusal to become mothers, you, yourselves, eventually will cause our country’s defeat. Every staet in the Union' shows a falling birth rate. ‘ Without babies, we can have no future workers or soldiers; without workers or soldiers, eventual defeat is only a matter of inexorable sequences. Even women ought to be able to comprehend that.” Perhaps we are too dumb to understand this argument, but there is another primary fact we are pondering. It is this: If we continue to increase the number of workers while thirteen millions now are without jobs, and the number of soldiers, with an armament tax too heavy to be borne, may we not expect eventual defeat from another quarter? It may be true, too, as the gentleman insists, that men’s illusions abou women are failing. m m m LET them fytil, and the sooner the better. Most of them are rank foolishness, and they never had any connection with hard facts. They are the fanciful weavings of men’s imaginations and were created to satisfy masculine romanticism. Why in the name of common sensd sholud women keep on producing babies, in a world where a large per cent of them now are dying of slow starvation? Why should we be asked my man or God to produce sons so they may be murdered in wars that realize the pet ambitions of nn egomaniac, or a bunch of egomaniacs? Women. I believe, owe their countries allegiance, loyalty and love. But, above and before that, they owe a higher duty still. They owe allegiance, loyalty and love first of al to the race. The wefare of the babies already here is more important than .any future military magnificence. \ -< V. \ : . ..--W' "7" .. it* / m ,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy —Says

In/ My Judgment, Al Smith Gained as Much as He Lost by the keligious Issue in 1928. NEW YORK, Oct. 26—Certain Republican leaders profess to be stunned by the Newark speech of Alfred E. .Smith. The idea, of course, is fathered by a wish. They really want to be shocked. It gives them an excuse for imagining things. Well, .as Mr. Smith would say, this* is no Burchard faux pas. The listeners merely heard a disappointed man dabble in some dirty water, which most of them hoped had gone by the mill. Mr. Smith showed poor taste and worse judgment in singling out Mabel talker Willebrandt as the chief target for his attack. His indictment of the Republican national committee for catering to intolerance in the campaign of 1928 only served to revive bitter memories of its effect on his own party. He might have brougnt the issue down to date by accusing the Hoover board of strategy of angling for Catholic votes in 1932, Just as it angled for Ku-Klux Klan votes four years ago. > He w’ould have lost nothing had he declared himself as thoroughly disgusted with the latter' scheme as with the former. * n It Wasn’t Bigotry Alone IT is unfortunate -that Mr. Smith felt called upon to resurrect the religious issue at this time, but one can understand why he did. He thinks it robbed him of the presidency. I never have thought so. I do not believe that any Democrat could have been elected to the presidency in 1928. In my judgment, Mr. Smith gained quite as much as he lost because of the religious issue. If he lost Texas, he won Massachusetts, and six out of the eight states he carried were in the' south. But we are not fighting the campaign of 1928 over again. This year Mr. Smith would have made as good a run as any man the Democrats could have nominated. His nomination would have proved once and for all time that the religious issue means little by itself. n n m Passed Up Chance I WANTED to see air. Smith nominated, to clear up a delusion. Win, lose or draw, I believe that the opportunity to get rid of this nightmare about what bigotry .and intolerance can accomplish without lining up with stronger emotions should not have been ignored. The Democratic leaders felt otherwise. Going by precedent, they felt that it was hopeless to denominate a defeated candidate, and preferred to sacrifice him as well as a great opportunity to render the nation a a real service, rather than risk losing the election. Small stuff, but it does not prove that Republican leaders are any better or wiser. nun Reform Is Needed THERE ought, to be less religion in politics, but, to get less, we must reform some of the politicians, as well as some of the preachers. The pulpit is not wholly to blame for mixing creed with partisanship. A good deal of it justly can be laid to ward heelers and th6ir bosses. More than one candidate has been picked with the idea that mertibership in this or that church would insure him a large bloc of votes. And he has been picked by politicians who were more thaja willing to go out and help him get It. The whispering campaigns, about which we heir so much, originate in the mind of some politician nine out of ten times, or spring up as the result of back-fence gossip which politicians are only too glad to capftalize. One way of keeping the religious issue out of politics is for politicians to shut up about it on the one hand, and refuse to take advantage of it on the other.

Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Times—lt is certainly a good thing that we have one paper in this city that takes a sensible and nonpartisan view on politics, one which gives both credit and rebuke where they are due. There is one thing in this campaign that has been irritating me. and a Star editorial made me so hot that I have' to get it off my chest. This campaign has been nothing but an orgy of mud-slinging, mainly of the type that will neither help no hurt either major party, with charges of ignorance arid incompetence being hurled from both sides with about an equal amount of basis for the allegations. Personally, I have no particular leanings toward either party at this time, because neither has any real leadership or constructive > program to offer. We have been, as every one knows, passing through one of the worst economic periods in history, which has instilled a very dangerous attitude in the minds of the masses. It should be the aim of every politician, for his own selfish interests as well as the good of the majority, to do everything possible to help economic conditions adjust themselves as soon as possible. The Republicans are taking all the credit for the nonpartisan legislation aimed toward aiding recovery, and then try to return to power by threatening the public. I have been cotmected with La Salle and Wall streets enough to know what this means. The Republican party is using typical Wall Street operators’ methods, publishing news that will aid only their own immediate selfish interests and “to hell with the public.”' After all the struggle and effort made to restore public confidence, which every one knows is half the battle in relieving economic distress, the Republican party openly and maliciously states that if Roosevelt is elected we immediately will fall back into the depths of the depression. This is the rankest and rottenest thing that any individual, concern or party can do at this time—undermine public confidence to the point that will place us back on the brink of ruin. L Thinking people can see that the

And Were Looking for That Pot of Gold!

—DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Burned Battery Casings Poison Many

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. A N instance typical of the health 1 hazards arising in industry and modern living conditions is afforded by the recent tragedy in Baltimore, where thirty-six cases of lead poisoning were traced to the use of discarded storage battery casings as fuel. It seems that it has been the custom of junk dealers during the period of economic distress to distribute the casings of storage batteries to poor people after the lead plates have been removed. Apparently a considerable amount of lead still is left in the casings, so that when they are burned in stoves in small rooms lead is inhaled and lead poisoning follows. While the exact number of people involved has not been deter-

IT SEEMS TO ME

npHE current campaign grows curiouser and curiouser. In the beginning, the battle was to be fought on the issues of unemployment and prohibition. Both problems have been mentioned, to bj sure, but they no longer take up the greater part of public addresses. Indeed, it seemed to me that on a recent occasion when Herbert Hoover took the air the chief object was to prove that the President has a sense of humor, no matter what anybody may say about it. Then there is the big burning issue brought up by Calvin Coolidge and others as to Governor Roosevelt’s past in a private school. The ugly scandal is going around that he was not born in a log cabin. The effort is being made to prove that no man should be President of the United States unless he spent his early days in a house without plumbing. But if the Republicans really wished to press this point they

Republican party is saying, "Put us back in power or we will have our revenge.” This revenge the party has been giving us a taste of, by its magnificent work in destroying public confidence in national economic integrity to the point where once mqre our markets, produce and farm, as well as stock, have been declining steadily. This- is certainly a time when it is necessary for a candidate to gain office on his merits alone. Neither Roosevelt nor Hoover can run the country. That power lies in congress. Neither man Is a real leader, and if Roosevelt should be elected, the agency that I understand has been giving Hoover all his ideas on nonpartisan legislation will give them as freely to any one who should happen to be President because the United States Chamber of Commerce is working for the best interests of the nation, regardless of political lines. The good of the majority can not be ignored much longer by any political group. The time has come when politicians must reverse their positions and begin to serve the public. Victories and defeats must be taken in true sportsmanlike fashion,

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mined, some twenty-three families, mostly Negron apparently were affected. Os course, children are more likely to be affected than grownups, because a smaller amount of lead can produce symptoms in the child than in a grownup. The only grown person affected was a woman, 49, but seventeen boys and eighteen girls below the age of 13 were seriously sick. Symptons were, in most cases, headache, vomiting, dizziness, the appearance of a “lead line” on the gums and changes in the blood such as are characteristic of poisoning by lead. It will be remembered that when ethyl gasoline was introduced there were numerous cases of lead poisoning, with changes in the brain, due to the inhaling of lead in vaporous form from this type of gasoline. Later, proper rules were made for the handling of ethyl gasoline and

„ v HEYWOOD B 1 BROUN

should have nominated Chic Sale rather than Herbert Clark Hoover. n n Attacking on Both Fronts OF course, the campaign has not been consistent tliroughout. After hammering Franklin D. Roosevelt on the ground that he came from a well-to-do and somewhat fashionable family, the Republicans have burned to rend him because he is no more \han a fourth cousin, once removed, of Theodore Roosevelt and only a fifth cousin of Alice Longworth. His blood is too blue in one attack, and in the next he should be rejected as a parvenu. Not all the trivialities of the cruel campaign justly can be attributed to the Republicans. One of the chief arguments advanced by the pictorial publicity heads of the rival party is the fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt always is smiling. He has grinned that wide grin now in practically every State in the Union. Mr. Hoover can not match him in this respect, although the cartoonist J. N. Darling (Ding) made a brief

and public confidence in our national integrity must be maintained at any cost, regardless of how much it may hurt a few politicians. If it is not, our entire government system faces destruction. When and if that time comes, the politicians who deliberately are hastening the day are going to cry the loudest. ONE ON THE SIDELINES.

Questions and Answers

How many bases on balls did Babe Ruth have in 1931? One hundred twenty-eighth. What is the source of cod liver oil? The liver of the codfish. Which motion picture had the song, “Beyond the Blue Horizon”? "Monte Carlo.” Which states lead in cattle rising. lowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Texas.

the danger now is so slight as to be infinitesimal. There were, incidentally, several cases of severe inflammation of the brain among the Negro children who inhaled the vapors of lead from the. burning storage battery casings. Proof positive that the trouble lay in the use of such material was the presence of lead salts on the battery casings secured from the homes under investigation. When the casings are burned, there is intense heat, and large volumes of smoke pour out. Lead is found in the smoke. And soot taken from the stove pipes in homes where casings are used as fuel also is rich in lead. The health department in Baltimore took immediate action to prevent use of storage battery casings as fuel in this manner and, of course, the junk dealers were glad to co-operate by at once discontinuing the distribution.

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

and abortive effort to have us all call him “Bert.” That just won’t do. I have never seen a picture of Mr. Hoover which could possibly induce anybody to call him “Bert.” His name is Herbert, and he looks it. 000 No Cash for Roosevelt MY chief complaint against the Democrats is that they don’t seem to read the papers, or at least not the one for which I write. Today I received a letter with an enclosed stamped envelope from the Democratic national committee. I am asked to add my name to “a group of journalists who are helping personally and financially in the campaign of the Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Presidency,” and later on the committee says, "We suggest that your check be directed to national campaign headquarters. Room 405, th Hotel Biltmore.” Now, it seemed to me that I had made it tolerably plain that I was for Norman Thomas for President, Louis Waldman for Governor, and Morris Hillquit for mayor. I have chased up-state on week-ends and spent a few nights on street corners, and I have explained myself over and over again in the column to the extent of dull redundancy. I will not send a check to Franklin D. Roosevelt. In fact, I am keeping the 3-cent stamp. Then there was Mr. Hoover’s .speech on sportsmanship, followed only a few days later by the announcement that his close friehd, Henry Ford, had posted bulletins in his offices and factories suggesting that it might be pretty smart for all Ford employes to vote the Republican ticket. Nor should I forget the curious complexion which the campaign has taken on in certain sections on the route sheet of Secretary Mills. From reading the accounts in the public press, one readily might gather the impression that the two candidates for the presidency were Secretary Mills himself and a gentleman named Garner. In many respects I feel that Democratic strategy has been much keener than usual, but in just one phase of the fight it has not grasped an obvious opportunity. I am referring again to that chink in the armor known as John Nance Garner. 000 Democratic Ball and Chain TT is obvious by now that the A Speaker has been a handicap to his ticket in some sections of the | country. If Hoover lives up to the ; promises of the various polls and ; carries Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey, the answer will be McAdoo, Hearst and Garner. The wounds engendered by the I Chicago convention have been healed to a surprising degree, save in the sections which I have mentioned. Even A1 Smith's belated conversion to the cause has not i been quite sufficient to carry all his followers along. In truth, there I are certain Democrats who are ; more passionate Smith men than A1 himself. And it is before these groups that ; Garner s name has been waved like a red banner in a bull ring. But the answer is so simple. Why doesn’t Franklin D. Roosevelt or some other responsible Democratic leader merely say, ‘Yes, we admit that John Nance Garner is pretty terrible, but how about Charlie Curtis? 1 ' (Copyright. 1932. by The Times) i r .'-'i ' . -•, ri-.'' ■■ c, '•

.OCT. 26, 1932

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Observatory to Study the Sun Will Be. Established on ML St. Katherine, Near Sinai* 'T'HE Smithsonian Institution will establish an observatory to study the sun upon Mt. St. rine in the Sinai desert, twelve miles south of Mt. Sinai. While tradition accepts Mt. Sinai as the peak which Moses is supposed to have ascended, to receive the Ten Commandments, , many Biblical scholars think it’ more likely that Mt. St. Katherine is the peak indicated by the Biblical story. It is the taller of the two mountains. The new observatory will make daily observations of the amount of heat and light radiated by the sun, Dr. Charles G. Abbot, famous authority upon the sun and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. # For many years the astro-physical observatory of the Smithsonian Institution has carried on studies of the sun under Dr. Abbot's direction. Daily measurements of the sun's radiation are made at solar observatories located in Washington, L. C., Table mountain, California, and Montezuma, Chile. The new observatory on Mt. St. Katherine takes the place of on© formerly located at Mt. Brukkaros in southwest Africa. This station had to be abandoned because haze and terrific winds interfered with its successful operation. nun Sun and Weather MT. ST. KATHERINE rises 8,540 feet above sea level from the Sinai desert. It was chosen for the Smithsonian Institution by Dr. Alfred F. Moore after a long search for the highest and driest accessible spot in the eastern hemisphere. He and other explorers for the Smithsonian climbed mountain peaks on three continents in the search for this site. Dr. Moore carried on observations on the summit of Mt. St. Katherine for four months before the Smithsonian experts were satisfied that it T was the best site. When the Smithsonian astronomers settle down on Mt. St. Katherine, their nearest neighbors will be the monks at the great monastery of St. Katherine, ten miles below them on the mountain side. The site probably is the most colorful location ever utilized for a scientific station. Dr. Abbot is interested in having daily studies of the sun made from widely separated stations, so that a continuous record of the sun’s radiation of light and heat can be kept. r** When the sun is below the horizon at one station, it is above the horizon at one of the others. It is an obvious fact that the earth depends upon the sun for its light and heat. Therefore, in the last analysis, the sun is the cause of the earth’s weather. Dr. Abbot has devoted many years of his life in a search for the connection between changes in the sun and changes in the weather. From studies at various solar observatories, Dr. Abbot is convinced that there are small changes in the solar radiation from day to day, and larger changes from year ‘to year. tt n n The Brass Brain * THE correlation of changes in solar radiation with weather changes calls for mathematical studies exceedingly complex and laborious. To facilitate this work. Dr. Abbot has developed a calculating machine which he calls the “periodometer.” It is so named because Its function is to find periods or cycles in the fluctuations of the sun and the weather. Because the machine solves such intricate equations that it seemi almost to think, it has been nicknamed "the brass brain.” Dr. Abbot believes that fluctuations in the sun’s radiation occur in cycles, the chief one of which is an eight-month cycle. Superimposed upon this, however, are cycles of 11, 25, 45 and 64 months respectively, he believes. The task of measuring the sun’s radiation is a difficult one. This is because the earth's atmosphere is between the observer and the sun. Dust particles in the air, and particularly water vapor, interfere greatly with the measurements. That is why it is better to get the. observatory on a high mountain/ where the air is as dry and free from dust as possible. The problem, however, Is complicated by the fact that the site must not only be favorable for scientific observations, but must have conditions which make it livable for the observers. v It is also necessary to locate the observatory in friendly territory, where the observers will not be at the mercy of bandits.

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TURKEY ASKS PEACE

October 26

/”VN Oct. 26, 1918, Turkey made y an offer of peace to th allies .hat amounted virtually to surrender. British troops advanced south of Valenciennes. French pierced the Hunding line. Italians made substantial gains in attacks on Austrian defenses on Piave line. In the Balkans, Serbs occupied Kralieve and Italian cavalry reached the Bulgar frontier. In Asia Minor, the British captured Aleppo, cutting the Constan-tinople-Bagdad railroad at that point.

Daily Thought

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him.—Psalms 49:6, 7. Wealth is the least trustworthy >f anchors.—J. G. Holland.