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Preliminary to Cancellation Cancellation of war debts owed to the United State* again comes to the fore in public discussions and international parleys. The moral grounds for cancellation beyond the 51.2 per cent average cancellation already allowed—are obviously on the level with a badly frayed scarecrow. - But there may be powerful practical reasons why we temporarily should dispense with logic and justice In the interest of aiding world recovery through further debt reductions. It is well, however, to bear in mind two fundamental considerations. One is that we can not simply wipe out the debts with a magnificent gesture and forget about them. Every cent which Europe fails to pay will have to be taken care of ultimately by the already badly burdened American taxpayer. The other is that the debtor nations are paying annually for unnecessary armaments vast sums which make the required debt payments seem veritably like "pin money” by comparison. There certainly is no reason why American citizens should dig further in their near-empty socks to bring forth money to arm Europe—very possibly for war against ourselves. Wesley L. Jones The death of Senator Wesley E. Jones will be mourned sincerely. More than a majority of his fellow-citizens, as now demonstrated, disagree with Jones’ view of the political Issue that made his name best known, but there never have been many to challenge his integrity and sincerity. Jones’ deep prejudice in favor of prohibition resulted from his experience as a boy. Born on a farm In the Illinois delta country, he was left fatherless at the age of 3 days. When old enough to be useful on a farm, he was ‘‘bound out” to a nearby farmer, exchanging his labor for the mere right to live. That he struggled out from such a beginning to win an education for himself and become in time a national leader is testimony of his courage and character. Drinking in his boyhood days was associated with cheap village saloons. He recounted to friends in his senatorial days his horror of the village drunkard and all things else that had to'do with the liquor traffic in his poverty-stricken community. The Impress never left his mind and provides the explanation of his authorship of the harsh flve-and-ten law. A Tax Conference The opportunity is here for an intelligent study of the whole field of national taxation. Before federal government or state legislatures undertake any widespread revisions of their tax systems, there should be called this winter a national conference on taxation, with its specific job to allocate, as far as possible, the tax sources of federal, state and local taxing agencies. President Hoover favors such program. PresidentElect Roosevelt advocates It. Congress and numerous private groups, including universities, are making studies of it. For years tax experts have demonstrated the need for co-ordination of all taxing agencies—city, county, state and national—but never before has the necessity been so apparent. The federal congress will meet on Dec. 5, and President Hoover will present his budget message, which is sure to show another large deficit and the need for more revenue. Legislatures in forty or more states will meet early in the new year and all will be deeply concerned with taxation. Unless there is some effort to co-ordinate a national tax system, the actions taken not only in these state legislatures, but also in congress, will add to the confusion and postpone the day when a coordinated revenue system is agreed upon. There is agitation now, for instance, for a general federal sales tax; but if it were enacted, how would taxpayers of Mississippi and other states, who already are paying a state sales tax, accept the new levy? There is a similar conflict in inheritance taxes. “The most practical relief to the farmer today,” said President Hoover, discussing the issue from the viewpoint of agriculture, "aside from the general economic recovery, is a definite program of readjustment and co-ordination of national, state and local taxation, which will relieve real property, especially farms, from unfair burdens of taxation which the current readjustment In values has brought about. To that purpose I propose to devote myself.” Roosevelt has said: ‘•The time has come for definite action along practical lines —to sit around a table and allot the various tax sources'to the different kinds of government. In this way we shall be able to get rid of double taxation and at the same time we shall be able to make government expenditures and revenues more easily understood by the average citizen.” Fortunately, the groundwork for such co-ordina-tion of taxation as Hoover and Roosevelt want already has been laid. In addition to private studies, a house of representatives subcommittee on ways and means has been inquiring all summer into the clash of federal and state and local taxation. It has been gathering facts. These might easily form the nucleus about which the national tax conference could work. Dry Law Amnesty The promise of several Governors to halt dry law prosecutions and 'grant amnesty to state liquor offenders is a welcome sign of realism in government. To continue to herd men and women into jails, now dangerously overcrowded, under a law the people specifically have repudiated, seems to violate the principles of both fairness and economy. Informally, America’s war on liquor ended by public proclamation on election day, when all but six states voted into power a party pledged to modification and repeal. More formally, tt ended in those states that also rescinded their state enforcement acts. On Nov. 8 American public opinion spoke in favor of stacking guns In the fourteen years’ war against drinking. We now are bivouacked under a virtual armistice until congress and the states define the terms of permanent peace. To the seventeen states that have declared against prohibition or rescinded their state enforcement acts, the Jailing of new dry law offenders and the boarding of the old ones will seem an unjust and expensive course. Washington and Adams proclaimed pardons lor participant* in the Pennsylvania whisky rebellion. The President, of course, can not grant blanket amnesty or pardons to federal liquor law violators until

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congress acts to modify. The federal government might, however, take some notice of the national mandate. Instead of continuing to spend upward of $40,000,000 a year of badly needed federal money to enforce an unenforcable law, it better could divert its funds and energies into more productive channels. America’s Jails, both federal and state, are packed to the limit now and we can not afford to build new ones. The Wickersham commission found our jails o\ercrowded to an almost incredible degree.” Federal prisons were found 65.9 per cent overcrowded and many state prisons almost as badly congested. With two men sharing single cells and hundreds sleeping in corridors, disease control and discipline become difficult. Prison riots have been traced largely to prison overcrowding. The depression is sending men to jail fast enough without the aid of this rejected law. The care of dry law prisoners costs millions yearly. To board and keep federal dry law prisoners alone costs $4,000,C00 a year, not counting the cost of arrest, conviction or transportation nor the cost to the states of their own dry law violators. Fully one-half of the government’s 25,000 prisoners are victims of the dry law. Here is appalling waste in human suffering and in dollars. If Governors set about to save some of this, few sensible Americans will object. Germany has outlawed one of its oldest nudist colonies, the Adolf Koch school, because "it gradually has lost its gymnastic character and is encroaching on the province of medical treatment.” And we thought all the time that the chief objection was lack of clothes. The British government was recently able to raise a 300,000,000-pound loan at less than 3 Vi. per cent interest in three hours, who in the world had that much money! Washington is urging Latin-America to'use the force of reason instead of unreasoning in its elections and politics. And perhaps that holds good for those Washington politicians, too. Even a lot of burglars are unemployed these days. No incentive. Banks were known as far back as 600 B. C. There also must have been some kind of stock market for the tellers’ entertainment. A survey shows that many ministers of the gospel are underpaid. Sermons do not seem to be a paying commodity. / Chicago schools have prohibited the reading of fairy tales to pupils. The board of education, however, furnishes the teachers with fairy stories on pay day. A Boston girl flung custard pies at two holdup men. She should have waited—maybe all they wanted was the pies. Speaking mechanically, what the world seems to need is a few more self-starters and a few fewer cranks. A small town is a place where you are regarded as a swell if you wear a necktie on a weekday. With the “Not Welcome” mat spread at its door for the prince of Wales and a riot when Cosgrave attempted to make a speech, Ireland seems to be coming back to normal quite rapidly. Teachers in Wildwood, N. J., have joined the ranks of those being paid in scrip—just a lot of paper-work, we presume. An old-fashioned person is one who can remember when they used to serve tea at afternoon teas. Among other items that seem to be missing in the newspapers is one about ex-Candidate Foster receiving a telegram from ex-Candidate Upshaw. Senator Borah still refuses to tell how he voted. Anyway, it doesn't seem to have made much difference. Three men were sentenced in Chicago for carrying weapons in their automobiles. They should have understood that in Chicago that’s what violin cases are for.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON *

WE have been treated of late to a repetition of old-fashioned fairy tales. These seems to be a growing idea that because we have hit a snag in the business current the women should make up their minds to go home and stay there. Yet so far nobody has explained fully how this is to be done, or how it will benefit the giris if it should happen. Because, regardless of theories, and especially if we keep on with our stupid war games, it seems that we always shall have a surplus of women in the world. And if there’s anything in the opinion that the majority should rule, then today the women would have charge of affairs in most countries. At any rate, they should be permitted to create for themselves as happy a life as possible with the often poor materials they have at hand. Suppose, let us say, that they wish to marry. Millions of them can not, of course, because there are not enough men to go round. Yet they are told by these excellent but impractical minnesingers that they should stay home and be good girls, and by and by the handsome prince will come riding up and carry them off to a magic castle. a a a NOW, the smart girl knows this is a tiresome and discredited story. Too many ladies of the old regime spent their lives listening for the knock that never came to make them trust this theory. And their suspicion is justified. Because if a girl wants a husband these days she must look for him on masculine stamping grounds—the business and industrial world. She’ll have no luck at all staying at home and peeking under the bed every night. If on the contrary', she does not wish to marry, then she’ll be even more obliged to get some sort of a job with which to content herself outside th circle of domesticity. In either event, staying at home is the most nonsensical thing she can do. This is why I shall continue to advocate intellectual, economic and normal independence for women, collectively, while I recommend marriage and a bit of domesticity for the individual.

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M. E. Tracy Says:

The Raymond Robins Case Brings to Public Attention One of the Most Perplexing Phenomena Known to Medical Science. New york, Nov. 2i.—The discovery of Colonel Raymond Robins in a mountain village of North Carolina, where he w’as pursuing he career of a footloose prospector under the name of Reynolds Rogers, brings to mind one of the most curious and perplexing phenomena known to medical science. It is hard enough to understand how a man or woman can suffer complete or even partial loss of memory, and then regain it. When it comes to the adoption of a different personality, which is assumed. or shaken off. without the victim's control, the riddle becomes hopelessly baffling. Because they can think of no other explanation, laymen are apt to regard it all as first-class sham-: ming, but too many cases have been recorded, studied and authenticated to permit of such an easy explanation. The psychological lapse of Colonel Robins, if such it can be called, is tame compared to some others that have been brought to light. The name he chose, as well as the newspaper clippings he made and the political attitude he maintained, show that Colonel Robins had not lost all connection with his past. There are cases on record, however, in which such connection was absolutely broken. B tt tt Minister Forgets Identity IT was more than forty years ago that a stranger came to Norristown, Pa., bought a little stock, and started a candy store. He gave his name as A. J. Brown, paid his bills regularly, and though having little to say about where he had come from, or what he had done previously, acquired an excellent reputation. After about two years, he woke up one night, remembered that his name was Bourne, that he was a Methodist minister who lived in Rhode Island, and nearly went into hysterics when he discovered that he was in a strange room. This case was reviewed in an exhaustive paper by Weir Mitchell and made the subject of thorough investigation by the London Society for Psychical Research. It was learned that Mr. Bourne had been subject to strange psychic phenomena in his youth and once j had been hypnotized when he was made to assume several different characters. It used to be thought that double consciousness, or dual personality was the limit, and it used to be explained on the theory that something had caused the two halves of the brain to act independently of each other, instead of synchronizing. But men and women have been found who not only took on one extra character without being able to prevent it, but several, each with its peculiar memories and attitudes. a a tt

Mind Is Complicated IT is said that a young Frenchman was able to assume, or, more accurately, was unable not to assume, six different states, which fairly might be called personalities. The memories attached to each of these states were different, though only one was completely exclusive of the others. Such instances are unnecessary to prove how delicate and complicated the mind really is, or how much we have yet to learn for even a rudimentary knowledge of its workings. That is the job before us however, if we would accomplish anything worth while in the struggle to produce a better race. The battle for improvement really is against our own weakness, and they are rooted deeper in the mind than in the body. Psychology is not only the most obscure, but probably the most important, branch of science we yet have ventured to develop. It is singularly appropriate to the world in which we live—a world which represents the translation of thought into gigantic mechanisms and institutions, and which grows more and more dependent on the sanity of thought.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—School taxes are no more sacred than other taxes, it is proper to reduce teachers’ salaries in line with reduced cost of living, and a little more, so the teachers may learn and teach economy and self-denial, as most every one else has been compelled to do in the last few years. Also, reduce the number of teachers and subjects, 25 to 30 per cent. As nearly as I can find out, half of what is taught in the grades is to qualify the children for high school and half of the high school work is to secure entrance to college. Mr. McConn. dean of Lehigh university, has given several years of special study to the advantages and the disadvantages of going to college. In a recent article published in Parents’ magazine, he says our college, “as they are,” for a considerable majority, are bad places. They offer to one particular type worth-while opportunities, to all other types they offer virtually nothing; namely, frustration and discouragement.” If all this is true, and I believe it is, why is not this time of needed retrenchment a good time to remove the false halo that has surrounded our so-called education system, cut away the dead and barren branches, and work out a system at half the co.'it and double the value, for those oi our young people who will profit by true culture and national learning? JOHN FARMER.

Daily Thought

And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land.—Genesis 41:30. Hunger is sharper than the sword. Beaumont and Fletcher.

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Hair Shows Freak of Heredity

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IT has been demonstrated that human beings tend to inherit various characteristics. It is known, for instance, that blue eyes tend to run in certain families. Some families are characterized by a streak of white hair on the forehead, and there are other interesting manifestations. In a recent number of the Journal of Heredity, a Norwegian investigator, O. L. Mohr, describes a family of Scandinavians in which there was a tendency to inherit woolly hair. This family lived in the same part of Norway for a long period of time and had kept careful record of the members of the family. In the Norwegians the head was covered by curly, frizzly hair like that which is characteristic of the

IT SEEMS TO ME

DR. CHARLES W. BURR, a psychiatrist of Philadelphia, says that Americans are getting soft and mushy. “America today,” he declared, “has all the degradation of ancient Rome, without any glorification. The average person is an imbecile, and America is failing, mentally speaking, because our homes and schools are negelecting to teach character.” Dr. Burr said all these things as a sort of greeting to the world around him on the occasion of his •seventy-first birthday. Obviously he didn’t get the white muffler or the embroidered slippers on which he had set his heart. The doctor has looked at life longer than has been my opportunity, but I grow a little impatient with any wl.o out of age or authority look down from some small hill and draws a complete chart of a rather extensive landscape. tt tt ‘Fifty-Seven Varieties PARTICULARLY I am puzzled by those who insist that what we need is more character. It seems to me that “all of God’s chillun got character.” Some of it is good, and some of it isn’t. One man’s Character may be another rpan’s poison. I doubt that there is any overwhelming evidence that America as a whole is soft and mushy. I would regard that as a consummation devoutly to be wished. I have grave doubts as to the solution of present problems by any people grown hardboiled and flinty.

Every Day Religion

BY DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

WHEN Mark Twain lived in Nevada, he started out one day to walk to a mountain not far away. After walking half a day, the mountain seemed as far as ever, and he turned back. At dinner that night, when some one asked him to pass the salt, he said: ‘“My friend, it looks easy, but distances are deceptive out here — that salt cellar may be five miles away.” Yes, distances deceptive, and they are not always a matter of space. Os King James of England it was said that “he never said a foolish thing, and never did a wise one.” When a man twitted him about the size of London, his capital, as compared with the tiny towns of Scotland, where he once reigned, his mother-wit did not fail him. He turned the tables by telling of “a toun in Scotland, the toun of Nairn, so big that the people at one end did not understand the language of the people at the other end.” No doubt he left his joke unexplained; but the fact was that in the town of Nairn half the folk were Gaelic-speaking Highlanders, and the other half Scots-speaking fishermen. It was a distance of language, and in that sense Naim was bigger than London; its “distance” could not be bridged. Not mileage, but misunderstanding, makes the real distance in life, separating people, and making suspicions and jealousies which keep them apart. a.

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colored race. The hair never grew long. It was black and extremely curly. The reason the hair did not grow long was that the curling made it brfak off after reaching a certain length. Before bobbed hair became popular, the women members of the family were disturbed because they could not arrange their abnormal and strange-looking hair in a manner which would prevent annoying stares by their neighbors. The hair was light colored, but not blond, and gray, darker as the members of the family grew older. When the records of the family were studied, going back five generations, some interesting relationships were found. In the first generation there were seven children, of whom only one woman had curly hair. She married twice and had, therefore, two lines of descendants.

I would welcome a little more smoothness in our stock. And once again I wish to take exception to those oft-repeated words “just like the days of ancient Rome.” Who says so? Dr. Burr, for all his span of three score years and ten, with one for good measure, just wasn’t around when Romulus and Remus first began the development of the seven hils. He never saw great Caesar or heard the fiddle of Nero shrill on bright-lit nights. Rome may haye been better or worse than life along Chestnut street, but until I get a first-hand report from some old settler I’ll not take seriously any of these comparisons. Frankly, I have never been entirely clear in my mind as to what made Rome fall. I have heard feminism blamed and liquor and the continental Sabbath. I even have a vague memory that one of the historians pointed out that the decline began a little while after the Romans abandoned whole wheat bread. But fall the city did, and even to this day many act as though it were a personal calamity. a a tt It Never Touched Me I’VE never been scared off much by this bad example. None of my worst impulses has been frustrated by the thought: “Romans dead these long years did just what you purpose doing now. They took the seoend cocktail, and the city fell —not to mention going ‘boom!’” But, after all, look at the fun it had. Even the austere decline and turn to dust. Now that it is all

NOT size, not ranges of mountains, not wide rivers, not even “the unplumbed, salt, estranging sea,” but the isolation of ignorance, of animosity, of prejudice set men far from each other. Our modern inventions have made the earth terribly small, so that a whisper can be flashed round it in a few seconds; but men still are far apart. Men may be near enough in space—drawn together, jammed together—yet as distant from each other as the poles in language, in thought, in culture. In the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the boy who went into a far country was nearer to his father than the boy who stayed at home—the thrifty, respectable boy whose selfishness made him as hard as nails, and so cold that one could skate all around him. Often a man and his wife live in the same house for years, yet they are world-far apart in sympathy and understanding. No, distance may not be physical at all, but spiritual—so near in body yet so far apart in spirit. Here lies the real loneliness of life, which may be as lonely as death. Wliat we need is more light, more love, more understanding, and a finer skill of engineering to bridge the gaps and chasms which yawn between races, colors, creeds, classes and sects, that those far off may be brought near in anew sympathy and fellowship.' (Copyright. 1932, United Feature Syndicate) ■v .

There were no children with woolly hair among the descendants of her six brothers and sisters. From one of her marriages this woman had two daughters, both of whom had woolly hair. From her other marriage she had three daughters, none of whom had woolly hair and all the children of these daughters have smooth hair. However, for the last three generations the descendants of the two daughters with woolly hair show this characteristic in a considerable number of cases, proving definitely that frizzly hair of this type is inherited as a dominant trait. There is no evidence of any mixture of blood with this family at any point in its history. All the characteristics are Nordic, so that the woolly hair must be considered a special manifestation inherited as a dominant characteristic.

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over, it seems to me that the Romans chose the better way. At least, that empire was a good fellow while it had it. Time has elevated its importance far beyond all the strangers who overthrew it. Rome was ready to fall. It had made its peace with posterity. Even the least noble of the Romans could afford to say, “After me the scholars and the tourists and the picture post cards.” o a u Failing Mentality BUT speaking of a lack of American intelligence. I wonder just what became of those who announced ahead of time that they intended to vote for one of the radical tickets out of either protest or conviction. One of the mysteries of the election is what became of the unemployed vote. The Socialist and Communist vote combined went little over a million, and it is obvious that many who chose either of these tickets for protest purpose were not themselves in desperate circumstances at the moment. I mean that Elmer Rice supported Foster for reasons other than the fact that his play “Black Sheep” failed to click and that neither George S. Kaufman nor Morrie Ryskind was lured into the Socialist ranks by direct economic pressure. The Communist party probably numbers more well-to-do supporters than any of the other radical groups, but even if not invidious distinctions are drawn, I think it would be high to assert t' at more than 50 per cent of the combined protest vote came directly from acute sufferers. And that leaves a bare half million who voted against the conditions under which they lived. In other words, something like 4 per cent of those completely floored by the depression took occasion to be articulate electorally. Maybe Dr. Burr is right, after aIL (Copyright. 1932, by The Times)

Questions and Answers

Does Bohemia still use the ancient white flag with a crowned lion rampant? The present flag was adopted after the formation of the Czechoslovak republic, in which Bohemia is a component state, following the World war. What is the address of “Seth Parker,” radio artist? No. 4 West Fortieth street, New York City. How much butter will a gallon of cream make? A gallon of cream containing 30 per cent butter fat will yield about three pounds of butter. What is the distance between earth and moon? It varies, but the mean distance is 248,840 miles. How old is Douglas Fairbanks Jr.? He was 25 last December. What is a moratorium? An emergency decree authorizing a debtor to defer payment for a given period. *

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those oi 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 Et’itor.

.NOV- 21, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ— ‘ —

l>ooo Scientific Papers Will Be Read at Annual Conclave at Atlantic City. BETWEEN Christmas and New Year's day, Atlantic City will I enjoy the distinction of being the scientific center of America. At that time the famous ocean resort will play host to the annual meeting of the nation's largest and most important scientific organstion, the American Association lor the Advancement of Science. A feature of the meeting will be a large number of symposiums at which specialists from ail parts of the nation will speak. The subjects chosen for these joint discussions range from “Cosmic Rays” and “The Physiological Relations of the Pituitary Body ' to • Stabilization of Employment' and -Radio Problems.” It is expected that about five thousand of America’s leading scientists will attend the meeting at Atlantic City. As usu 1, the meeting will be divided into some fifteen or more sections, each section dealing with a branch of science—astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, engineering, medicine, etc., etc. . More than one thousand scientific papers, dealing with the latest advances in all fields of science, will be presented at the meeting. The president of the society this year is Dr. John J. Abel, distinguished physiologist of Johns Hopkins university. Dr. Abel will oe one of the speakers in the symposium on the pituitary gland. b an Historic Importance THE symposium on cosmic rays promises to be of historic importance. It' will bring together some of the chief students oi the subject, among them Dr. R. A. Millikan, famous physicist of Calilorjma Institute of Technology, the man who confirmed to existence of the rays, and Dr. Arthur H. Compton of the University of Chicago, who recently returned from a 50,-000-mile journey to study cosmic rays. Dr. Millikan and Dr. Compton, both holders of the Nobel prize in physics and the only living Americans to have received it, hold quite different views upon the nature of the rays. Dr. Millikan believes that they are waves. Dr. Compton regards them as electrified particles. Other speakers in the symposium will include Dr. W. F. G. Swann, director of the Partol Research Foundation of Swarthmore Pa., Dr. Gordon L. Locher, Dr. H. V. Neher, and others. Dr. Swann and his colleagues at the Bartol Research Foundation have carried on extended studies of cosmic rays, designing special apparatus for the purpose. The symposium at Atlantic City, by bringing together the chief workers in the field, ought to shed much light on the present situation and point the way for future research. It goees without saying that reports of the symposium will be awaited eagerly by scientists in all parts of the world. Among the symposiums on medical subjects will be one on “Filterable Virus Diseases,” and one on “Tuberculosis.” an a Employment Problem A NUMBER of distinguished authorities, both in the academic and the industrial world, will take part in the symposium on “Stabili-, zaton of Employment.” They will include Dr. C. F. Kettering, president, General Motors Research Corporation, and Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric Company. Monetary, credit and capital aspects of the problem will be discussed by Dr. Irving Fisher, Dr. James W. Angell and Dr. Alvin Hansen. Science and machinery aspects will be discussed by Dr. C. F. Kettering, Dr. Dugald C. Jackson, and Dr. Walter Rautenstrauch. Stabilization of employment by means of public works will be discussed by Dr, Leo Wolman and Dr. W. N. Loucks. Gerard Swope and Dr. H. L. Rietz will speak on employment insurance. Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr. Royal Meeker, will discuss the legislative aspects of the subject. Discussion of radio problems will take place at a joint meeting with the Institute of Radio Engineers. Another joint meeting, with the History of Science Society, will be devoted to symposiums on “The History of Oriental Science” and “The History of Medical Science.” Among the other symposiums scheduled are the following: “Late Pleistocene and Recent Changes of Level Along the Atlantic Coast of North America,” “Embryonic Determination,” “The Archeology and Ethnology of the Southeastern United States,” “Ethnological Field Methods,” “The Psychological Significance of Birth Legions,” “Sociological Statistics,” “Central Bank Policy,” “Primitive Linguistics,” and “Nitrogen in Relation to Crop Growth and the Use of Nitrogen Fertilizers.” The reader will note that the program is varied. Indeed, the annual meeting of the American tion for the Advancement of Science,* might be regarded as an excellent cross-section of all American science.

Name the months in the Greek Calendar? Hecatombeon, Metageitnion, Boedromion, Pysansepsion, Memacterion, Poseidon, Poseidon 2nd (in leap years), Gameiion, Anthesterion, Elaphebolion, Munychio, Thargelion, Scieophorion. Does the mayor of New York city receive a larger salary than the Governor of the state? Mayor Walker received $40,000 a year, but his successor, Joseph Me-. Kee, has reduced it to $25,000, same as the salary of the Governor. When and where was Bob Dalton killed? Oct. 5, 1892. while the Dalton gang was raiding banks in Coffeyvilie. Kan. For what purpose is the U. S. S. Nitro used? As an ammunition ship. How many ounces in a dekagram? It is 0.3527 ounces, avoirdupois.