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Indiana's Responsibility The visit of the Republican candidate for President and one of the greatest Democratic leaders of the nation on the same day has but one meaning. m The political strategists of both parties believe that Indiana may possibly settle the fate of the nation for the “next four years. Under suci. a condition, it is conceivable that the vote of the most humble citizen of this state might determine the presidency, and more than the presidency, the policies of an entire nation. The people of Indiana need no reminder as to the duty of giving a respectful welcome to the visitors. The one bring3 with him not only an appeal as a candidate, in which role he appears, but also the dignity that comes with the presidency, the most powerful of offices in the world. The other is the executive of a great state, an office which commands equal respect. They come today as advocates of principles of government; they come asking a hearing from intelligent citizens; they bring the arguments with which they hope to persuade the people of this s/tate. One of the unfortunate circumstances of our political system is that they will have the wrong audiences. It would be a fine thing for the nation, fine for themselves, if they could exchange audiences. The vast majority of those who will listen to President Hoover have already made up their minds to give him their ballots. They will go with fixed ideas. They will need no argument, except perhaps to find added reasons for their faith. The great crowds which will welcome Governor Ritchie will approach the gathering with enthusiasm. Their minds are intent upon victory. They will go to shout approval for his utterances. Asa guide to intelligent voting, the competing meetings offer little. The speakers will talk to closed minds. But there are thousands of others who may be given an added sense of responsibility because of the'zeal of campaigners. The competition may bring home the fact that Indiana must answer for the future of the country. When political organizations become so ardent, the independent voter should pause before he casts his ballot. Intelligence, patriotism, vision are the demands of the hour. When one state may settle a great national referendum, the situation is filled with drama. When one voter might possibly sway the future, it is a time for each man and each woman to consult his or her conscience and cast a ballot with a prayer.

Patriotism A great crowd in Boston Thursday night that had come to laugh and cheer and shout (with its political idol, A1 Smith, suddenly was stilled by an emotion too deep for expression. / ' The following passage in the gallant former Governor’s speech—a brief declaration that is certain to live in the literature of patriotism—was the cause: , “There can be no bigotry, there can be no resentment in the Catholic heart. Let us not forget that. We have been taught, and it is impossible to divorce ourselves from it, that our first consideration is this country. “We were taught in our elementary schools that Almighty God himself made this country and hid it behind a veil for centuries, until civilization was able to take advantage of its great natural resources, that the United States may be open to the world as a haven of refuge to the downtrodden, the poor, and the oppressed of every land. "It is in that way that we view this country." Don’t Be Frightened , In every city of this and other states, the threat Is being made to workers that the election of Roosevelt will mean the end. of jobs. There is only the faint promise that the re-election of President Hoo*ver will bring any additional work and then only in the future. This attempt to coerce the votes of workers, employed and unemployed, constitutes a threat against the very foundations of self-government. Worse than this, the threat is idle and based on nothing but the hope of coercing votes. If any evidence were needed, it is furnished by the Wall Street Journal, the organ of finance, which always speaks for the once heralded big business. That spokesman for money says that things will be neither as good as hoped nor as bad as feared. In other words, the election will have no immediate effect. In an editorial under the caption, “The Soil Will Remain,’’ it appeals, of course, for the defeat of Roosevelt. But every working maa who may be trabbling under the Cav of loss & joba 3? Roosevelt is elected should read ftbis frank eenfession that the present campaign of coercion is false. The Journal says: Governor Roosevelt’s reply to President Hoover’s lowa speech contains the essence of his real appeal to the voters. Os that appeal, it can be said that it unquestionably expresses the candidate’s sincere convictions and, therefore, can not be dismissed as a mere vote-getting device. Also, It addresses Itself di-

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rectly to the emotions of the time in two very important respects. One—the more important of the two —is in its emphasis on the need for a change. The call for a "new deal” is apt at any time to find response in that mixture of instinct, reason and emotion, which we call the public “mind,” but particularly in times like these. So, too, is the suggestiqp that “the relations between government and business will necessarily be in process of definition during the coming years.” In a “democracy” such as ours the disposition to employ in greater measure the powers and resources of the “state” is always alive. At a time when “big business” here —and everywhere else —has proved itself unable to meet with success the exigencies of the period and the “superman” is the victim of easy gibes, it is more than ever vigorous. It is fair to assume that in these fundamental ideas the Governor gives expression to widespread emotions. The financial district here (in New York) —and for that matter everywhere else—has a natural distrust of “new deals” and of “government” in relation, to “business.” There is no need to argue the matter; it is enough to recognize the fact. Rightly or wrongly, the distrust is there, permanent, irremovable. But without assuming to decide between the respective merits and the respective policies of the two candidates and the probable effect of the election of either upon the economic and financial situation of this country, it Is well to remember that the power of either to make or break “recovery” is limited. Strictly speaking, it does not exist. The most that either can do is either to accelerate or brake a movement Which will irresistibly accomplish itself in the long run. Those who believe that the choice of either is a choice between “recovery” and “chaos’—and it matters nothing with which of these alternatives one links his favorite—are deceiving themselves. If we have seen “low tide,” if we have seen the turning point of the crisis, as there is now happily good ground for believing, neither President Hoover nor Governor Roosevelt can reverse the tide to renew the crisis. This is something which the financial community should keep clearly in mind. Whatever happens on Nov. 8, things are not going to be nearly so good as the gratified voters will hope nor nearly so bad as the disappointed voters will fear. Isn’t Radio Wonderful! Thursday night the Republican national committee dug into its jeans to hurtle through 10,000 miles of air the Hoover speech of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., stationed at Manila. The idea, of course, was to let American voters know that young Governor Teddy, and not Governor Franklin D., is T. R.’s eldest and his spokesman. But how unlike the thunder of Theodore the First were these cheerful thoughts from the other side of our widest ocean: “We have had within the memory of those now living, or their fathers, but little real trials in the United States ... as we never have known what other peoples have suffered, we feel that our suffering has passed belief and could not be worse . . . “We still are infinitely the richest of the nations. Our government rests on the firmest foundation . . . We have had no great industrial disorders. There has been no government dole . * . The United States is still American and is going to stay so. That is the issue in the campaign and we will fight it out on those lines.” A long way for such little thoughts to travel! Senator Cutting Bolts From out of the campaign’s recent fog of recrimination and figure-juggling, the Denver speech of Senator Bronson Cutting came as an invigorating western breeze. It was a confession of a ’disillusioned American liberal, who fought four years ago in the cause of Herbert Hoover. It also was a direct hit at the essential weakness, from a liberal’s viewpoint, of the Hoover record. Cutting did not blame Hoover for the depression, nor even fo* the mistakes of a bewildered man honestly might have made in financing the nation in those early days of the crisis. He did blame him for having aligned his administration with “those beneficiaries of special, privilege” who now unite in demanding his re-election. The bolt from the G. O. P. of such western Republicans as Cutting, Norris, La Follette and Johnson is one of the Roosevelt campaign’s most reassuring aspects. Here are men without axes to grind and who are among the country’s chief champions of democracy with a small “and.” If a little leaven leaventh the whole lump, their activity in the Roosevelt cause may help assure a progressive administration in event of his election. t Along about Thanksgiving we can remember, anyway, what Hoover said about how much worse things could be.How would you like to be a baby these days and be kissed by a candidate? Picking up business is oetter than waiting for business to pick up.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TJLESSINGB be upon the head of all kinds souls' -U who write to newspapers. Just at the moment when life seemed totally bereft of ideas for columns came the postman. A letter from Westville, 0.. arrived and the woman who wrote it is agitated and angry, and well she may be. I share her rage and herewith hammer the typewriter in defense of my maligned sex. She sends a cartoon in which a male voter is beset on each side by an ugly old woman, one of whom is labeled “False Rumor’’ and the other “Malicious Gossip.” She reminds me that wonien should resent the fact that we always are pictured as meddlers and vulgarians and gossiping busybodies. We should. What's more, we do. For we have been given several bad reputations funded wholly upon falsehood. This gossiping charge is one of them. I do not deny that women enjoy talking about their neighbors. I do deny that they enjoy it any more than men do. And it hardly can be true that political gossip emanates from women, since we are not yet in position to invent such tittle-tattle. All the whispering campaigns, the ugly inferences, and the malicious lies have been first created and then disseminated by men. a a a THE idea that women have an overweening fondness for tearing down the reputations of their friends is one of the venerable relics handed down to us by generations of men wl*> like to accept tradition as truth, and who laugh out of turn. The love for gossip is shared equally by the sexes, and when we realize that most wives get all their tidbits of talk from roving husbands, we must admit that wcan not be accused justly of greater frailty in this respect. In cities, meft s clubs are breeding places of salacious stories and lively tales of the misbehavior of the great, and near-great, and the neighbors. In small towns the barber shops and pool halls are hotbeds of spicy scandal-mongering. And it is interesting to note that today our* most prominent dispenser of gossip is a man, Walter Winchell. The tea table ladies may be good at it, but they are utterly unable to compete with the gentlemen who spend a good deal of their time “in conference.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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The Hoover Administration Has Made No Honest Effort to See Whether Recognition of Russia Is Advisable. NEW YORK, Oct. 28—“ At the present moment, I am openminded on the question of the recognition of Russia,” writes Governor Roosevelt in a letter to Robert B. Nixon of Wayne, Pa. The question is one that should not be decided out of hand. If a satisfactory agreement can be made regarding several points at issue, there is no reason why this government should refuse to recognize Russia. Weakness of our present attitude consists in the fact that no honest effort has been made to see whether recognition was advisable. The Hoover administration simply has been guided by a blind prejudice. Russia has not been treated with the respect and consideration which this government usually accords other countries. Ever since the United States became a nation, it has proceeded on the theory that other people had a right to set up any form of government that suited them, and that when such form of government acquired sufficient strength to be regarded as responsible, it should be recognized. The Hoover administration has not pursued that course toward Russia. It has not been open-minded, even in a strained sense of the word. u n u Shut Door in Face THERE are just grounds for complaint against Russia, but the Hoover administration has done nothing to see whether they could be removed. On thq contrary, it has adopted a pose which virtually closed the door in Russia’s face, and was almost equivalent to saying that any attempt on her part to open negotiations would be rebuffed. The trade we have lost by pursuing such policy might be considered of no great consequence were the policy justified. The policy is not justified, either by common sense, or by our own traditions. We have every right to demand that Russia indemnify American nationals for property damaged, destroyed, or confiscated during the Bolshevist revolution, that she acknowledge and pay private debts, that she adjust her methods of trade and commerce to international usage, and that she refrain from all effort to encourage political disturbance.' We have no right to assume that she won’t meet such demand, or to refuse her recognition as a result of such assumption. It would be just as logical for us to withdraw recognition of France or England on the assumption that they are not going to pay the war debts. Considering our practice in the past, and what is called for by international usage, we are under obligation to find out what Russia intends. * u u Cost Is Incalculable RUSSIA’S form of government has no bearing on the situation except as it precludes trade and commerce in accordance with sound international practice. The fact that American exporters and importers have been trading with Russia for the last decade suggests that there is little cause for worry on that score. About all that stands in the way of recognition is some $400,000,000 in damage claims and a watertight mind at Washington. Meanwhile, the cost of our policy toward Russia is incalculable. It has deprived our manufacturers of a treat and growing market, has kept thousands of our citizens out of work, and lost us a natural ally in the far east. Russia comes nearer to agreeing with our point of view on disarmament than any other European country. Russia’s interests in Asia force her to regard Japanese aggression in the same light that we do. Russia looks to our commercial, industrial and engineering methods for guidance. Why shouldn’t we be open-minded on the question of recognizing her?

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times —Working people are viewed by some as being all brawn and no brain, but when a medical man attempts to qualify for directing the destiny of laboring people, his opinions become public, and are subject to the criticism of working men and women. Dr. Morris Fishbein in his article entitled, "Many Persons Unfitted for Jobs,” quotes from local and foreign authorities, and not in the first person, but I take it for granted that he believes that his quotations are true—that 50 per cent of our workers are in jobs not suited to them. On this point it is granted, at the present time throughout the United States, under made wyk committee direction, men who are competent and qualified artisans and tradesmen are forced to work—because of want—two days for a basket of groceries, on catch-all jobs. Formerly this work was done by common labor. Who can qualify to correct the worker’s defects? Certainly not a “medical man.” Only the worker can qualify for self-determination and improvement. Your proposal is to not employ workers unless they have the medical o. k. of physical requirements. You state decaying teeth will constitute a potential hazard. Shall I assume vou propose to buy and sell labor by looking at their teeth, their physical structure, try their speed by running a marathon race, finger print ’em? Then you would say “Mr. Working Men, go to the employment office and be signed up for mass production”—not so good, doc. The three girls illustrated in the laundry, two being fast workers,one slow—the slow one showing facial distortions and a disgust at dirty, filthy linen. Well! she is made to my liking of resenting human filth, especially when sent to a laundry, placed in a washing machine, with the garments of other people. You should f dmire her, as I do, and not consider her as an inefficient and slow worker, but a judge of filthy garments coming from unjboughtful people to. infect a healthy worker.

‘Listen, 'My Children, and You Shall Hear —’

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Superstition Is Rife in Schools

t BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvgeia. the Health Magazine. IT is -realized, of course, that children may develop superstitions by contact with ignorant people, and everything possible is being done to overcome this unfortunate situation, by proper health instruction in the schools. It is realized also that the coming generation is likely to be better educated in matters of anatomy, the functions of the body and health than have been generations of the past. Children in the formative years are most impressionable, so that the grade school teacher has a far more important effect on the mind of the child than those teachers who meet it in later years. It occurred to Paul Rhoton, of Pennsylvania State college, to find out to what extent graduates from teachers’ training institutions are equipped adequately to eliminate misconceptions from the health beliefs of their pupils. In a study of previous writings on the subject, he found that superstitious beliefs are prevalent to a surprising degree in this country, and that high school and college

IT SEEMS TO ME by

MANY pleas, appeals, and piteous proffers have been made to the liberals during the present campaign. President Hoover, William Z. Foster, and Governor Roosevelt have done practically everything for the liberal except to define him. And that is a hard job. Somebody ought to tell the liberal just where he stands and why, because that is a task well beyond his own ability. Once I met a hundred per cent member of that tribe, but it was many years ago. He happened to be my son at the age of one and a half. ’ I discovered that he was a liberal early on Sunday morning while we were walking in Central Park. We happened to go near the merry-go-

You say agents of employers and medical investigators state that the person who aims to guide others as to vocation must be concerned not only with the working hours, but leisure as well. Rome gave the workers bread for food, and circuses for entertainment during their leisure hours. Bpt today working hours and leisure is a social .question to be demanded by the workers for his or her improvement. Under the present scheme of capitalism, comfort and leisure of a worker is determined by the amount of wages he obtains. ' If you had suggested that social diseases, which are greatly prevalent today because of unemployment and congestion, are being made a medical racket, for financial gain, by your association members, should be stopped forthwith, and that doctors comply with the law in reporting cases to the public health and inspection department, and had you recommended quarantine the same as for other contagious diseases, then your article would not have been in vain. A WORKING* MAN.

& T ?s^ Y ■WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARY

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AUSTRIA URGES PEACE Oct. 28 ON Oct. 28, 1918, Austria-Hun-gary dispatched another note to President Wilson,* urgently asking that peace negotiations be entered into without awaiting outcome of exchanges with Germany. The government at Vienna conceded all rights asked for the Czecho-Slovaks and Yugo-Slavs, and asked that the President launch overtures with the allied governments, with a view to halting hostilities on all Austro-Hun-garian fronts immediately.

students are subject to many erroneous beliefs, showing that such misconceptions were not eliminated in grade schools. He found also that women are more likely to be influenced by superstitions than are men and that boys and girls from rural communities know more superstitions and are more influenced by them than those from the cities. He developed a test which included 125 superstitions regarding foods, diet, infections, the special senses, injuries, ventilation care of the teeth, tobacco and similar subjects, and submitted the questionnaire to teachers in training schools in various states, asking them ; to indicate their opinions as to whether the statements made were true or false. Some of the statements included in the test were taken from the articles on superstitions in the health field previously printed in these columns. For instance, there is the common belief that kidney disease usually begins with a pain in the lower part of the back; the idea that a blind person has a better sense of touch and hearing because the strength that was in the eyes went to other organs; the belief that seven swallows of water will cure

round, and he was attracted by the strains of “Dardanella,” a musical piece popular at the time. He dragged me eagerly toward the pavilion, and, naturally, I supposed that he wanted to ride. \ I had just time to strap him on top of a camel before the contraption started. He seemed content enough as we began in a slow rotary motion. I had strapped myself to an elephant Just beside him. As the revolutions increased in violence H. JL B. began to cry lustily. # tt * it Went Too Fast AS soon as possible I lifted him back to the'firm and stable ground and briskly started to-walk away from the scene of his harrowing experience. I thought he wanted to get as far away as possible, but after a few steps I noticed that he was not following me. Instead, he was hurrying back to the merry-go-round as fast as his legs would carry him. “Perhaps,” I thought, “he plans to discipline his will and purposes to ride that merry-go-round once more because he is so much afraid of it,” I once read a book like that by H. G. Wells called “The Research Magnificent.” But the tiny tot was no Wellsian hero. He howled louder than before when I tried to put him on the camel again. I tested the possibility that through some queer trick of heredity it was merely the camel which aroused his antagonism. But he would not ride the fish. He balked at a horse and kicked the shins of a unicorn. Then I ceased to interfere and began to watch. When the merry-go-round started to whirl, H. H. B. edged up closer and closer with a look of the most intense interest I have ever seen on any human countenance, if that could be applied to the face of'a small child. n u tt Sort of Cosmic Kibitzer HE was fascinated by the sight of men, women, and children engaged in a wild and perhaps debauching experience. Hitherto, around the house, he had observed that men like his father went forward and back in > reasonably straight lines, but this progress was flagrantly rotary. I could not get him away. He would not retreat a step, nor would he go any nearer. In fact, he was already so close to thq carousal that he could have leaped aboard with no more tljan a little hop. By leaning just a little, he could have touched it. But he did neither. He preferred a combination of the closest proximity and stability. And after a while I realized just what it was of which he reminded me. He was a left Ring of the New Republic watching Soviet Russia. His attitude was one of huzzahing, hat tossing, leader writing, letter to the editorizing. To my horror I comprehended what I had, in a somewhat minor measure, done. I was the father of

hiccoughs; that a chew of tobacco is antiseptic; and that asafetida carried around the neck will ward off disease. There were actually 5 per cent of teachers in training schools who believed that asafetida used in this way would ward off scarlet fever and measles. One of the most significant observations made in this study was the extent to whjch ordinary advertising convinces teachers as well as the public generally. Seventy-nine per cent of the teachers believed that a pain in the back indicated kidney trouble; 51 per cent thought that exercises would correct failing eyesight; 51 per cent believed that a widely advertised antiseptic, which has about the antiseptic efficiency of strong salt wafer, was a powerful germicide; and many others believed other statements made in food and drug advertising that really are without scientific foundation. Apparently, formal schooling has failed to a marked degree in eliminating faith in. old-fashioned superstitions about health, and modern advertising is serving to introduce some new superstitions that are even worse than the old ones.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those ot 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.

a penthouse pink. Or, in other words, a liberal after the third round. Here w r as a lad, who would clo everything for tlfe revolutionary movement which he seemed to admire so tremendously .except get on board. The mad whirling thing lay at his feet, but his interest in it and even its imminence never disturbed his tranquility. The lines of communication with the safe and sane rear remained unbroken. He could retreat the the minute the merry-go-round attempted to become overly familiar. a tt a Years Are Rolled Away AND in my anguish the gift of prophecy descended upon me. I beat my breast and muttered, “He will be a couple of Elmer Rices or—the fates defend me!— half a dozen Sydney Howards.’’ In recent months the liberals of Olympus have been much more aggressive than is their wont. You can sit almost any night at twentyone or Tony’s and listen to the barricade boys strut their stuff between bacardis. After all, what’s a little slaughter between good friends, particularly if you don’t have to do the job on water? “Make me another angel float. And why not Ford and Foster?”, But I warn the reddest of the revolutionaries not to trust too implicitly to any of the recent literati who dangle as watch charms on the chain of the Daily Worker. At the polls, as on the baricades, you will not find them. You see, they are likely to have forgotten one slight detail. They haven’t registered. (CoDvrieht. 1932. bv The Times)

Questions and Answers

Where was Joseph McKee, present mayor of New York City, born and educated? He *was born in New York City forty-three years ago and was educated in the schools of that city and at Fordham university. Is Governor Roosevelt a Mason? Yes. What is the regulation distance between the home plate and the pitcher’s box on a baseball diamond? Sixty feet six inches. How much did it cost to produce the m'dfion picture “Noah’s Ark?” How many persons were in the cast? It cost about $2,000,000. Ten thousand persons were in the cast and it was in production three years. Which animal has the highest blood temperature? Birds, which are perpetually in motion, have temperatures, ranging from 100 to 113 degrees Fahrenheit.

.OCT. 28, 1932

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Astronomers of Today Keep the Sun Under the Closest of Daily Observation. the new solar observatory i °f the Smithsonian Institution | goes into operation on Mt. St. Cath- | erine in the Sinai desert, one more terrestial eye will have the sun under daily watch. Ancient man worshipped the sun. The Babylonians, the Egyptians, and other ancient peoples built temples ) to the sun god. Modern man .no longer worships the sun. but the astronomers of today pay far more attention to the sun than did the priests of ancient days. The modern astronomers realize the importance of the sun in the scheme of earthly existence. Life is possible on earth only because of the light and heat of the sun. The sun is the primary cause of ‘ weather changes on the earth. It is also the cause of magnetic storms and the aurora borealis. Perhaps it has something to do with cosmic rays. Compton thinks it quite likely. Astronomers are interested not only in the sun because of its effect upon the earth and its life. They also are interested in the sun for its own sake. There still are many problems to be solved concerning the sun itself, the nature of the sunspot cycle, the nature of the corona, and so on. For these reasons, astronomers keep the sun under Constant observation. n m Variety of Instruments THE sun is kept under observation with a variety of instruments, since each type of study calls for special equipment. The Smithsonian institution, which is building the new Mt. St. Catherine observatory, maintains two similar ones, located on Table Mountain, California, and Mt. Montezuma. Chile. The Smithsonian also has an astrophysical observatory in Washington, D. C., where the work of analyzing the observations of the distant observatories is carried on and correlated with experimental research under direction of Dr. Charles G. Abbot. The Smithsonian is interested chiefly in measuring the total radiation of the son; chat is, the amount of heat and light per unit area emitted by the sun. The apparatus used is essentially an electrical thermometer of extreme delicacy and accuracy, which records the amount of radiation falling on a unit area. The instrument is known as the pyrheliometer. It is an improvement on another similar instrument known as the silver disc pyrheliometer, which had been in use by the Smithsonian for about twenty years. During that time, the Smithsonian furnished silver disc pyrheliometers to more than fifty institutions here and abroad for use in solar studies. The United States weather bureau also is interested in making measurements of solar radiations and maintains “pyrheliometric stations” at Washington, New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Miami, New Orleans, Madison, Lincoln, Fresno, Fairbanks, Twin Falls, La Jolla, and Gainesville. * u * Tower Telescopes AT the Mt. Wilson observatory, atop Mt. Wilson, Cal., stand two great steel towers, one 75 feet high and one 150 feet high. These are the solar telescopes or spectroheliographs, invented by Dr. George Ellery Hale. With them, photographs of the sun are made every clear day. These include both ordinary photographs and photographs made In selected wave lengths of light. Similar tower telescopes have been established in many parts of the world, at Meudon, France, for example, and at Kodaikanal, India The result is that the sun Is under observation by one or another of these gigantic eyes during the twenty-four hours of the day A photograph, taken in one wavelength of light reveals the distribution of gases in the solar atmosphere, and other details of sun* spots,, and the like, which are obscured in an ordinary photograph hght he bnßhfc glare ° f the SU^S Recently Dr. Hale perfected a deMce known as the spectrohelioscope, which makes it possible to observe visually the details which previously could be photographed only with the spectroheliograph. He has installed the new device in observator y in Pasadena i„ oth k ers are being installed in many observatories. Positions and areas of sun soots nhl^ C ? rded daily by a numbeTo? observatories, including the Mt Wilson ooservatory, the United State* naval observatory, the Perkin* Harvard an d the Yerkes observatory The University of Zurich computes and publishes a “daily sun spot number.” which is a daily index of the spottedness of the sun f

Daily Thought

The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy before thee; and shall say, /Destroy them.—Deuteronomy 33:27. The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us. —Fenelon.

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