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Hoover and Watson When President Hoover opened his appeal to Indiana by a declaration of whole-hearted approval of Senator James E. Watson, he discredited his further Utterances. The people of Indiana know Senator Watson. The President also knows him. They know that he is unscrupulous in politics. President Hoover had proof of that four years ago in the primary when Watson scattered the most violent and scurrilous attacks against the Hoover candidacy, so violent that the speech of Senator Hiram Johnson last night would appear as praise in comparison. So the President can not say that he does not know the Watson morality in politics. Nor can he be ignorant of what all the nation knows of the Watson ethics in the senate. • He knows and the people know that when Sena* tor Watson finally decided to support the Hoover home loan bank bill he told his colleagues that he did so because he had been told it would be worth 20,000 votes for him, not because he believed it would work. The President knows, of course, of the exposure of the sugar stock deal, a matter that is so shocking that only*a Watson could have had the brazen temerity to dismiss it with a jest. The people know that Senator Watson obtained *tock in a sugar company for which he gave only his note, at a time when he was helping to fix the tariff on sugar. If the tariff made money for this company at the expense of the consumer, Senator Watson would profit without Investment. If the company lost, as it did lose, then the senator had only to give back his note. That, says Senator Watson, was what happened, and he explained that he had given a worthless note for worthless stock. When the President appeals to Indiana for votes and links his own cause with that of Senator Watson, he must of course take the inevitable consequences and can only discredit himself, not help the ‘genial humbug” who appears so definitely to be on his way to private life. Vote for Yourself Indianapolis probably us the only city in the United States that could stage two such political shows on the same night as W'erc presented when President Hoover and Governor Ritchie of Maryland competed for attention. It is only fair to state that the competition was of the President’s asking. The arrangements for the Ritchie meeting had been made far in advance of the decision of the President to endeavor to come to this state. Today, the leaders of the parties will claim, most extravagantly, the edge in numbers in attendance. The Republicans will point to the fact that the Butler field house is remote and difficult of access, except to the owners of automobiles. The Democrats, with justice, can point to the fact that more than 20,000, at a minimum, participated in a marchirig parade and show/e dtheir zeal by being anxious to undergo some sacrifice to get on record. What difference, after all, does it make how any one else votes? Shoul a vote be given on the basis of the size of crowds or the enthusiasm of zealous partisans? The only vote cast in the coming election should be for yourself. . Vote for the candidate and the party which promises the most relief from your present troubles—and there is no one in these days without serious trouble on which government may have some effect. The issue is between the record written by President Hoover, and the hope held out by Franklin D. Roosevelt, unless you decide that both are hopeless and that a protest in the form of a vote for Norman Thomas would be more effective. If votes are to be swayed by the opinions of others, it may be suggested that such progressives as Senators Norris of Nebraska, Johnson of California, Costigan of Colorado, are giving their support to Roosevelt while big business is frantically trying to exert pressure on working men to vote for Hoover. Under which leadership and under what policies have you a better chance to hold your job, if you have one. or to get one if you are among the unemployed? Think for yourself and vote for yourself. Our Health ' In spite of three depression years and an autumn crop of 11,000,000 jobless. America’s health, as measured by vital statistics, “has stood up well,” according to Dr. Louis I. Dublin, president of the American Public Health Association. There is nowadays, he says, less overeating and overdrinking. People are being less exposed to hazards of machinery. Unemployment forces many to rest and exercise in the open air. But before you join with bland and buoyant Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur in concluding that depressions are healthful, be warned by Dr. Dublin that “we soon will become aware of the consequences of malnutrition of children in terms of disease and mortality records.” Poverty, exposure, hunger, and worry produce not health, but sickness and death. If these offsprings of the depression are not being reflected in today's statistics, they will be in tomorrow’s. The important fact that has kept health standards from slipping so far, Dr. Dublin says, is “the continued and effective functioning of health departments, medical profession, and social service agencies.” It is encouraging—and surprising—to hear that American taxjiayers so far have refused to stint on health and social service budgets. • In humanity’s name, let us hope they continue their generous support of these agencies against the coming winter. A Last Minute Lie Commendation is due Editor Wood of the Literary Digest for so promptly scotching the last-minute campaign lie concerning thq magazine's presidential poll. A well-known brokerage house in New York had sent out to its branches in a score of cities the statement that The Digest had received more than 35,000 letters from persons who had voted for Roosevelt, asking that their votes be changed to Hoover. The same report was broadcast nationally by a well-known radio speaker. Editor Wood, in denying the report, said that its source had been traaed to "a national party headquarters.” William Hard, the radio broadcaster, confirmed this, saying he had been given the misinformation by Rey Benjamin of the Republican national committee headquarters in Chicago. At the time the lie was launched, said Wood, the Digest had not received a single letter asking that a vote b changed.

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Mr. and Mrs. Grundy Unless It fails of its duty, the next congress will throw Mr. and Mrs. Grundy out of the window. These precious marplots have brought us enough of trouble, ridicule and poverty. The Grundy tariff rates have insulated us economically, incited tariff was against us, alienated our best customers, and lost for us one-half of our sales abroad. The activities of the busybody, ‘ Mrs. Grundy,” have brought us costly and crime-breeding prohibition, customs and postal censorship of bofcks and periodicals, persecutions for nonconformist views. Because of her puritanicaredicts, we are now told by law what we may drink and read and think. The new cpngress, of course, should vote to modify the Volstead act in favor of beer and wine and repeal the eighteenth amendment in favor of temperance. It also should pass the Cutting bill to make the post-master-general submit his rulings, now obsolete, to juries, just as the 1930 Cutting act limits censorship by the customs collectors. It should pass the Blaine-Boileau anti-wire tapping bill. It should repeal the war-time espionage act and restore to citizenship all war-time political prisoners. It should block the red-baiting Hamilton Fish program and halt all other patrioteering and snooping programs that aim at curbing free thought and free conscience in America. The Grundys have been too long with us. I Intelligent Action President Hoover, too, has discovered that the situation presented by the war department investigating the war department is qyeer, to say the least. This, as we pointed out some time ago, was the reason the war department, in investigating itself, should take extraordinary care to discover the facts about the charges of “virtual slaverj'” said to exist in its Mississippi contract camps. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored people made such charges after a thorough investigation. The war department, responsible for’the flood control project, the contractors and conditions in their camps, said it would investigate. But mid-day in this Inquiry, President Hoover has announced the appointment of an independent fourman commission to inquire into these charges. That is the intelligent way to get at the root of the trouble. Henry Ford recently repeated his first suggestion to his employes that it might be a smart thing to vote for President Hoover, probably just to let them feel sure that he wasn’t spoofing. Some of the leading speakers in the presidential campaign urged the people to do some “clear, sane, thinking.” But they won’t begin to do that really until along about January. Friend husband has had to think up some new excuses during the last few years. Imagine him trying to tell the wife that he was going away on a business trip! A van, equipped with a magnet, is being used in some cities to remove screws and other bits of metal from the highways. That’s another hazard faced by the man who still drives a Model T. A British scientist claims that by a special diet he can make a poet out of a plumber. But the man probably would have to go back to the shop foAhis rhymes, anyway. A reader wants to know if Wall street isn’t a little bit afraid to support Roosevelt, a Democrat. The answer is Wall street is a little bit afraid to support anything Just now. A dispatch from one of the cities visited by candidate Roosevelt said “business stood still” while the Governor was in town. And what was unusual about)' that? ■ - • A Cleveland councilman has introduced legislation to abolish the zoo. Cleveland, however, need not be without amusement; the people always can go to council meetings. Michigan‘State college will inaugurate a course in horseshoeing. Probably to accommodate the football squad. Governor Pinchot says we think too much of our bank rolls. Well, there’s no harm in reminiscing once in a while. The Boy Scout leader who offers the practice of whistling as a cure for the habit of pipe-smoking should be asked also to prescribe a cure of whistling.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TWO students of the University of Maryland face expulsion because they refuse, as conscientious objectors, to join the reserve officers’ training corps. It is compulsory for them to serve in this unit for two years. Stress often has been put upon the economic waste of these R. O. T. C. departments in state schools. The conscientious objector issue here raised is comparatively new. but a timely one. A large number <ff students in several institutions have approached this question with rebellion in their hearts, but have compromised with conscience for practical purposes. It is heartening, therefore, to know that there are members of the younger generation who have the moral courage to challenge the sacred traditions of militarism. And the more challenges we fling forth today, the better will be our tomorrows. Each evidence that American youth refuses to adhere to conventionalized formulas set up generations ago is another proof that they are going somewhere. ■*' a a * THE whole story of human progress is a repetition of just such spiritual rebellions. When men free themselves from worn-out forms, they must shake off the lethargy of worn-out ideas. Abandon the catchwords. Pull down the sacred symbols. Stamp out the meaningless institutions that prevent growth. This clinging to ancient faiths has hampered us immeasurably in the past and continues to do so. If we could, for instance, get rid o{ the idea that all soldiers are heroes and all, generals great, we could get rid of war. Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's great philosophers, gave us a challenge for thought when he wrote these lines: * "No facts to me are sacred; none are profane. And no truth is so sublime but it may be trivial tomorrow in the light of new thoughts.” So. in the light of today’s thinking, many of our shibboleths are irivifti. • • •> . '

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

This Country Has Been Classic u led and Class-Ridden Since the Civil War. NEW YORK, Oct, 29.—We are moving toward the end of a curious campaign. For the first time since it was organized seventy-six years ago, the Republican party finds itself compelled to play the part of apologist arid calamity howler. The cause goes deeper than the present depression. Three-quarters of a century have proved sufficient for the Hamiltonian theory of government to be rehabilitated and go to smash. Much as we hate to admit it, this country has been class-ridden and class-ruled since the Civil war. Though its Constitution was not changed in any basic sense, and though the form of its government remained the skme, to all outward appearance, the real power came to be exercised by special privilege and vested interest. The new order was not without its advantages. It constructed railroads, opened new territory, exploited the telephone and electricity, organized the steel and oil industry, promoted city building, prepared the way for automobiles and airplanes and did innumerable other things to make the present age what it is. tt tt tt Leadership Is Wrong ■ AT the same time, this new order, sponsored and served by the Republican party, developed an unofficial government which defied, circumvented, or ignored, the popular will, and which proceeded on the assumption that average citizens were not qualified to determine great public questions. All that is merely the good old Hamiltonian doctrine in new guise, the federalist conception of what this government should be, forcing us once again to break up or break down a party to renew acquaintance witt those fundamental rights and privileges which this republic was supposed to guarantee. When you come to analyze the trouble we are in, you find that most of it is due to the leadership of a select few who thought they had discovered a system that would work without reference to human beings. It was a mechanical system, borrowing its philosophy from engine and dynamo,-visualizing money as the most important thing in life, whether for governments or men, and exalting business. # tt * Not Qualified to Lead THE present campaign, as conducted by Republican spokesmen, furnished a vivid illustration Cf where such philosophy leads. The citizens of this country have been advised that they should accept the guidance of bankers and business men in politics, because bankers and business mfen know what is best for them in governmental, as well as financial, affairs. I do not wish to be understood as belittling bankers and business men. I have the greatest respect for their ability and character. The success they have attained in their respective lines, however, does not mean that they are good musicians, expert jewelers, or farsighted statesmen. Asa general proposition, they are no better qualified to gpeak authoritatively on political questions than doctors, lawyers, engineers, bricklayers, or plumbers. They are certainly not as well qualified as are people who have made politics a professsion, or singled it out for special study. n a Science by Itself POLITICS is a science all by itself, with which every citizen is supposed to be more or less familiar in a republic. The inherent nature of their profession obliges lawyers to live in close contact with politics. Other professions and trades involve a certain degree of contact, because of laws, or politics which affect them. Notwithstanding all that, politics remains a separate and distinct science, which looks to the popular will because it serves popular welfare. Any system that obtrudes itself between politics and the popular will is headed for trouble.

Questions and Answers

When did the last eclipse of the moon occur and where was it visible? It was a partial eclipse, March 22, 1932. The beginning was visible generally in eastern Asia, Australia, Pacific-ocean, North America,- except the northeastern part, and the extreme western part of South America, and the ending generally was visible in Asia, except the southwestern part. Indian ocean, Pacific ocean and the extreme northwestern part of North America. When will the next eclipse of the sun occur? Will it be visible in the United States? The next eclipse visible in the United States will occur March 7, 1970, and will be visible only in Florida. There will be an eclipse in 1945 and another in 1954, which will bgin at sunrise on the international boundary and the tracks will move north w ard over inaccessible spots in Canada. What is the Australian ballot? The term is used for any secret ballot, of which there are many forms, all of which can be marked in such way that the identity of the voter can not be determined. Which candidate for President received the thirteen electoral votes of California in 1916? Woodrow Wilson. • Where does the former kaiser of Germany live? In Doom castle, Doom, Netherlands. i What jockey is called "the wizard of the saddle"? Earl Sande. On what day did the Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur, fall in 1902. > Saturday, Oct. 11. What countries comprise the Scandinavian peninsula? Norway and Sweden. Is the Dead sea navigable?

BELIEVE IT or NOT

WAS ELECTED TO THE LEGISLATURE jT BY EXTOLLING HIS OWN FAULTS / Smjm p&4 Lack of EDUCAT/OH , Co.A.|<g I j> qs^nf.^ Business failure *> 19)1. King FoiruiM Syndicate, Inc, "And although he printed no cards or ADVERTISEMENTS-REFUSED To SHAKE HANDS, 'AND CAUTIONED THE PEOPLE AGAINST HIMSELF. HE. WAS ELECTED BY SOO PLURALITY \ r. F , n oyer 17other candidates/ " jEf- I Pheips ■." i^.... -.. ~. * SAM Booth, of Pens&coU,F|&. ft.. ■ 1 tp-V.

Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” which appeared in Friday’s Times. A Male Record—Sultan Mustapha 111 (1717-1774), whom Voltaire surnamed “that big porker Mustapha,” came to the throne at the age of 41, after spending thirty

Go to Bed If You Feel Cold Warning

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. THIS is the season when people sit out on open bleachers for several hours watching football games. It is the time when they expose themselves to rain, sleet, snow, and hail, and everything that fall weather in the temperate zone can provide. The persistent golfer bundles himself heavily in a leather vest and, blowing on his hands between shots, plows his way for three hours around a golf course. It is not at all surprising that exposure of this type frequently results in subsequent infection, particularly with what is called the common cold. Chilling of any portions of the body and excessive fatigue, according to the experience of hundreds of years, lower resistance to infection and should be avoided. The crowding together of large numbers of people serves to facilitate the passing of gjrms from one to another, and epidemics of colds are not infrequent in the days following big* games. There are certain things that one

IT SEEMS TO ME

IN the present campaign much has been said about the protest vote. Some have hailed a ballot of this sort, as the most useful which a citizen can cast, while others are inspired to declare, “Don't throw your vote away.” It all depends upon what basis you plan tft protest. There are those who feel that Roosevelt’s grin is too wide and Hoover’s mercy much too narrow. Having no liking for the personality of either candidate, these disgruntled ones will choose some minor party as the receptacle of their passing fancy. I agree with critics who feel that this sort of “protest” is of little value in the clarification of America’s political problems, however much good it may do for the soul of the individual involved. I am not a passionate admirer of either President Hoover or Governor Roosevelt, and yet I do not think that there is much cause for complaint upon the part of those who generally are satisfied with that sort of government which it has pleased the Republican and Democratic parties to afford us. I do not intend it as a towering compliment, but it seems to me that Herbert Clark Hoover is about up to the average of Republican Presidents. Nor does Frankling Roosevelt rate below the level generally maintained by Democrats. Both are good run-of-the-mine candidates. nan Pique and Protest NO protest, whatever its total in sheer figures, will mean very much if it indicates no more than a transient and passing distaste for the choices of the two major conventions. It is true, of course, that there is no device upon any voting machine sensitive enough to record the precise sincerity and ardor of every voter. That is a pity. Ten votes from the heart really should count as much as one hundred apathetic and lackadaisical ones. But there will be at least one test by which some estimate can be made of the true importance of the radical vote. If Norman Thomas runs far ahead of the local Socialist candidates in all the states, then commentators will be obliged to say that part of his support was the

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years in the confines of the harem. His first measure after he ascended the throne of Turkey was to cut the expense of his harem containing 3,000 concubines and slaves. The maximum allowance per annum was fixed at 250 livres per

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

should do just as soon as he has the slightest inkling of the beginning of the symptoms associated with colds or influenza: First, to get warm and keep warm; and second to be comfortable. The best way to get warm and keep warm is to go to bed with sufficient covers. If the vast majority of people would go home just as soon as they feel the first symptoms of a cold, and follow the technic outlined, there would be far fqjver secondary serious complications. The complications are far worse than the initial disease. The common cold or influenza are in themselves seldom fatal. The secondary bronchitis, pneumonia, or serious infection elsewhere in the body may kill. Dr. Harry Beckman advises the posting of a slogan in all offices and factories which he feels would bring about a great saving economically. This would merely be a poster saying, “Go Home When You Feel It.” So many people stick to their posts because of the fear that they will be called “soft” that the advice certainly is needed. Once the person with the beginning cold or influenza is warm in

product of his own vivid personality and enormously effective campaign. It will mark Mr. Thomas as bigger and stronger than his party. In other words, it will be a tribute to a man and not the expression of a belief in a platform and a system. u tt Beginning at Bottom IF the Socialist party is to become an important factor in the political scheme of America, it must grow at the bottom ratherrhan the top. Its true function remains unfulfilled if it is merely used as a convenient medium by which to express dislike for two fellows currently running for the presidency. Obviously its real reason for existence is to offer a haven for those who wish to express well-considered disbelief in the present economic system. Perhaps that’s being a shade too dogmatic. There should also be room for those who have as yet gone no farther than to harbor grave doubts. Now, of course, in the case of such voters it is silly to tell them that they are throwing away their votes. They honestly see no important differences between Republican and Democrats. They feel that, whatever the total number of votes, they are doing their bit to build the foundation for anew kind of party which seems to them essential for the world’s salvation. . n a tt Hutton Sees It Through MR. EDWARD F. HUTTON, in a radio address in support of President Hoover, carried the Henry Ford hint to workers several paces farther. “Whj\do not you wage earners of the country ask your employers to talk to you and give you their honest opinion in respect to the situation?” asked Mr. Hutton. “You don't want to cast a vote which

Daily Thought

And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.—St. John 4:36. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.—George MacDonald,

capita, equal to about SSOO at the present day. His concubines bore him 582 sons in his lifetime, and among all this numerous progeny the Sultan in vain sighed all his life for a daughter. Monday: “The Festival of Fifty Centuries.”

bed, there comes the question of whether it is desirable for him to sweat. With a great deal of fluid on the surface of the body, chilling is likely if there is exposure, hence the taking of anything that will cause a mild sweat should be accompanied with the certainty that the room is warm and that the patient is covered sufficiently. There are a good many drug preparations that will produce perspiration. Hot drinks, particularly hot lemonade with sugar, early in the condition also will produce a mild sweat. ■ The patient can take a half tumblerful every hour while awake, and if he doesn’t like water as is, it can be mixed with orange juice, lemon Juice, or small amounts of other substances if they are available. The question as to whether the body should be cleaned thoroughly at this time by taking cathartics and laxatives depends largely on whether the action of the bowels have been disturbed. If the patient’s bowels have not been disturbed in any way, there is no reason why he should disturb them by indulging in laxatives or cathartics at this time.

HEYWOOD BROUN

may upset your pay envelope. You want the right information.” But if the right information lies wholly in the counting room, why permit the worker to vote at all? Instead of having him shamble in, hat in hand, to get his instructions, wouldn’t it be simpler just to let each employer cast a ballot for everybody in his employ and thus save wear and tear and crowding on election day? Mr. Hoover is fond of making a recurring speech which concerns the American laborer, and just what a spree he could have if he devoted his entire income to a great deal of bread and butter. Mr. Hutton seems to have amplified his in the matter of bread by being pretty candid in warning the worker that he w*ill do well to find out from his boss on precisely which side it is buttered. (Copyright. 1932. bv The Timesi

Views of Times Readers

Editor Times —Candidates for election to congress from this district who favor immediate cash payment of adjusted service certificates will have the support of the rank and file of those who make up the members of Walter Q. Gresham post No. 1587, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Members of our post have expressed themselves as being unanimously in favor of immediate cash payment. This means that they j will vote against all candidates who have declared themselves as, being opposed to this proposal, or those who fail to commit themselves definitely as being favorable before Nov. 8. This action is in accord ■with : resolutions adopted by our recent national encampment, and it is positively non-paijtisan in nature. In our desire to see justice accorded; to America's ex-service men, we ’ intend to ignore party labels and give our support to Republicans or Democrats aligned on our side in this cause. Talk and propaganda hinting that payment of this debt to the veteran will wreck the treasury and upset the budget *s without the i slightest foundation of truth. These same charges have been hurled at every appeal in behalf of the veteran in years that have passed. Dire consequences have been pre-

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

.OCT. 29, 1932

SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Electron Is Put at Work to Help Twentieth Century Scientist. HOW the twentieth century scientist has put the electron to work, was told by Dr. a W Hull assistant director of the General Electric research laboratory, in a recent address before the American institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Existence of the electron was not even suspected until the close of the nineteenth century when Roentgen discovered X-rays and the Curies discovered radium. In fact, scientists still are arguing about just what the electron is. It is so small, for one thing, that about half a million jof them could be placed, without cr#wding, on the period at the end of this sentence. While we do not know exactly what the electron is, we do know it is the unit of negative electricity, and that, an electric current is nothing nrore nor less than a stream of electrons in motion. From that point of view, modern man has been putting the electron to work ever since he started using electricity. But the present-day scientist has put the electron to work in a solo capacity, as it were. He makes the electron do special tricks for him. Thu? is done by means of the vacuum tube. * Os course, every one is familiar with one application of the vacuum tube. It is the heart of the ordinary radio set. It is a flow of electrons from the heated filament of the vacuum tube to the plate which accounts for operation of the radio >set. a a Counting Electrons IN his address, Dr. Hull described a number of new vacuum tube; or “vacuum valves.” as he prefers to call them. These valves are the latest product of the General Electric laboratories. “Some of them still are in the laboratory stage,” Dr. Hull said. "Others have already found important applications. Some of the larger ones, which have graduated from the laboratory, are waiting for their apprenticeship in industry, there to refine their frailties and complete their preparation as electrical servants. “The career that awaits them, though dimly foreseen, appears fascinating. And as surely as history repeats itself, scenes still more romantic, now beyond the horizon, will unfold as we approach them. This is the romance of science.” Dr. Hull began his review of the new valves with the most delicate one of the lot. It is a special tube designed to measure currents smaller than any yet detected. As Dr. Hull said, Tt goes by the unromantic name, Pliotron FP-54.” This new tube is so sensitive that it will measure an electric current of one billionth of a billionth of an ampere. As already stated, an electric current is a flow of electrons—trillions per second in the case of an ordinary current. The current measured by this tube represents a flow of only six electrons a second. Consequently this tube can be used not only to measure current strengths, but to count electrons. tt tt tt Entirely Impractical THE electron-counting tube to date has no application In industry nor any immediate prospects of it. According to Dr. Hull, it “has the distinction of being entirely impractical.” “Its application, present and future, as far as eye can see, is purely scientific,” he said. “It counts cosmic rays. It measures, in co-operation with the photo-electric cell, the light from distant stars, being able at present to detect the light from a star of the 14th magnitude. “It records the fragments-neu-trons. protons and alpha particles—of atomic nuclei smashed by highspeed ions. The structure of these atomic nuclei, the ninety-two hitherto indivisible elements of atoms, appears to be the next objective of scientific research, the next naturefortress which science aspires to storm. ' Perhaps our diminutive tube may be the sling with which some scientific David shall make this conquest.” The next valve described by Dr. Hull is also what he calls “an impractical tube,” that is, one whose present application is in the laboratory and not ii> industry. It Ls the PJ-11. It measures electrical pressure or voltages ten times smaller than could be detected before. “Its special feature.” Dr. Hull says, “is a good vacuum, naturally invisible.” In 1880, the best vacuum known was the equivalent of a thousandth of ordinary atmospheric pressure. By 1900. vacuum 1,000 times better were obtained. These were the equivalent of a millionth of atmospheric pressure. The PJ-11 has a still better vacuum, the best vacuum attained to date in a valve.

dicted by administration authorities at every proposed appropriation in behalf of veterans. The fact remains that America still .is the wealthiest nation on earth and nothing has happened to our economic structure that can be blamed on veteran expenditures any morfe than can be assigned to a score of other individual causes. There can be no recovery in this present depression until the purchasing power of the people at large has been increased. This can be done promptly and effectively through immediate cash payment of the so-called bonus, as this money will go directly into the hands of veterans who will, in turn, release these funds into every channel of trade and commerce. During the last year, th* government has made vast appropriations in an effort to stimulate business conditions. It is possible that a slow and gradual recovery is under way as a result of these appropriations. Nevertheless, the vast portion of those billions loaned to large corporations has been and is being concentrated in Wall street at the present time as security for bonden indebtedness and payment of interest obligations. JOHN M. McGRATH. t Commander,