Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1934 Edition 02 — Page 2

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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun MIAMI. March 10 Dear Bow: You have been very indulgent, and I will be back almost any day now. I realize that this holiday column has been concerned too much with horse racing, gambling and other forms of frivolity which should be discouraged and rooted out. Do not let me near the office safe when I come back. I understand thoroughly how fine, clean. American mar.hod can be betrayed and seduced by the

sport of kings. If there is any society for the abolition of horse racing, please send it a check for $1 in my name and take it out of my salary about the end of July. I promise you out of a full heart that when I get back this column will be devoted wholly to economics, polities, theology, the revolution and other serious subjects. If by any chance you happen to see “It Seems to Me” during the next twelve months I will lay you five, two and even that there will be no mention whatsoever of any thoroughbred horse. Even if Man o’ War should bite John D. Rockefeller

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I will make no comment upon the episode. You see, I am the sort of person who ran take a hint. 0 0 0 For the Sake of College Days 1 GATHER that my good angei is whispering to me to stay away from Hialeah Park. I wouldn't be surprised if she has been whispering this for several days. I didn’t quite get it on account of the roar of the crowd I wish my good angel would learn to speak up and enunciate more clearly or buy herself a megaphone. But I must admit that she spoke in no uncertain terms today. After beginning rather badly I happened to run into an old college mate of mine who has become a professional handicapper. “Let me give you a winner in the fifth race,” he said, “just for the sake of the old days." “What are the odds?" I asked. "Twenty-five to one.” he told me. We clasped hands and sang the verse and one chorus of “Fair Harvard.” “Clarence,” I said. “I appreciate this more than I can tell you. I realize that you find it hard to make both ends meet here in Miami, but if you can ever get enough money together to come to New York Id love to see you and buy you a drink. What is the horse's name?” “Dornoch,” he answered. “ ’Doorknob’ seems a very interesting name for a horse. How shall I play him?" “Not Doorknob ’ His name is ‘Dornoch.’ He is by Donnacona-Dearie. Play him across the board. He can not fail to be in the money. I would gladly guarantee the bet except that I am without funds,” said the racing expert. The race, for no good reason, was to be run on the turf. Dornoch came out prancing around and full of spirit and personality. He was a picture horse, and so I rushed down and bet an additional $2 on him to show. nan Favorite Reads Signs THEY'RE off. and who is in front? Who but Dornoch? His first mad charge from the barrier shoots him into a lead of six or seven lengths. The only trouble with Dornoch is that he is quite a bit too fast for his own good. The other horses are nowhere. Neither is Dornoch. The racing authorities have neglected to bank the turns, and Dornoch skids all the wav over to the inside rail. From that position he can detect through his blinkers that there is a nice dirt track only a few yards away. “Am I or am I not the silly old tick to be over here on the grass?” says Dornoch to himself. “I think I'm in a horse race, and I must have got off at the wrong floor.” By this time Dornoch, making fifty-five miles an hour, finds a fence right in front of him. “Why, of course.” he murmurs, “a steeplechase. I wonder what’s coming over me. I must have the mental condition.” And so Dornoch, to the astonishment of his jockey and the biggest bettor behind him. rises like a swallow and sails over the obstacle. His jockey. S. Trenchard—a stranger to me—goes with him. It is one of th prettiest leaps I ever saw. Os course, by this time grooms, unemployed jockeys and assistant starters are waving their arms at Dornoch and shouting: “The first door on your left!” “Follow the green line.” “Would you like my compass?” and other bits of useful, but belated advice. By the time they manage to convince him that the sign at which he shied didn't say “Keep off the grass” the other horses are indulging in a driving finish. If I had not sworn off race tracks forever I would put my last penny on Dornoch next time. That is. provided his trainer gives him a read map. 0 0 0 Garlic of Different Mould BUT that reminds me that I haven’t got my last penny. That went on Garlic in the seventh race. Garlic’s personality is nothing like that of Dornoch. Just the reverse. He isn't in the least impressive. He has a technique al his own. Like Ulysses S. Grant. Jack Quinn and William De Morgan. Garlic is a slow starter. If through any mishap he fails to get off last Garlic drops back until he is trailing all others. He wants elbow room. Today he let the others get twenty or thirty lengths ahead. By that time everybody thought he was hopelessly beaten. But two of us had faith—myself and Garlic. Half a mile from home Garlic started to run. With even - stride he was picking up rival steeds and tossing them aside like withered violets. He was the Empire State Express trying to save the rebate on the run down from Rochester. On came Garlic and on and still on. Only two horses remained in front of him. He was moving at twice their speed, but there was such a little distance left to go. Gathering all four feet beneath him. Garlic made one final leap. He'd won! Garlic was first by a nose. "It isn't the small fortune I've won.” I said to myself. It's the moral lesson. There he was half a mile behind the others, but he never gave up. I can still make something of my life in spite of the years I've frittered away. All I need is character and a purpose. Tomorrow" morning at 7:30” The words froze on my lips. There seemed to be a conynotion in the judges’ stand What's that? Garlic is disqualified. The men who struck down the great Caesar were shining saints compared to those judges who disqualified Garlic It seems that some Percheron in the race got in his way and Garlic calmly ran over him. One fence jumper and one disqualification. I may start in the morning, boss. I can't catch the night train, because I'm going to the dog races. tCoDvneht. 1934. bv The Timpsi

Your Health BY DR MORRIS nSHBEIN

your nose begins to run and you feel VV feverish and ill. that form of the common cold, called rhinitis, is setting in Rhinitis begins with a burning and prickling sensation in the nose or throat. And it is then that you are confronted with all sorts of remedies for cutting the cold short. The simplest of these comes under the classification of treatments which produce sweating. After the cold has started, take a hot bath in a warm room and go straight to bed. Take plenty of hot drinks, such as hot lemonade, and. with them, an alka'.i-like sodium bicarbonate, common baking soda, or sodium citrate. Keep the mucous membrane of the nose protected witn an oily spray. Such sprays usually contain menthol, camphor, or eucalyptus, which seem to decrease the irritation and swelling. 800 MANY a person injures his ear from too vigorous and too frequent blowing of the nose, during a cold It 1* important not to blow both sides of the nose at the same time, since this tends to drive the infection to the ear through the Eustacian tube. Since the exact cause of the cold is not known, you should do \ aur best to prevent it by avoiding exposure to drafts and dampness, by avoiding sudden changes from not to cold, and by keeping your body .as well nourished as possible. v

"THE LIFE OF OUR LORD"

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CHAPTER THE SIXTH SIX days after the last Miracle of the loaves and fish, Jesus Christ went up into a high mountain, with only three of the Disciples— Peter, James and John. And while He was speaking to them there, suddenly His face began to shine as if it were the Sun, and the robes He wore, which were white, glistened and shone like sparkling silver, and he stood before them like an angel. A bright cloud overshadowed them at the same time; and a voice, speaking from the cloud, was heard to say "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye Him!” At which the three disciples fell on their knees and covered their faces: being afraid. This is called the Transfiguration of Our Saviour. When they were come down from thus mountain and were among the people again, a man knelt at the feet of Jesus Christ, and said. Lord have mercy on my son, for he is mad and cannot help himself. and sometimes falls into the fire, ana sometimes into the water and cover himself with scars and sores. Some of Thy Disciples have tried to cure him. but could not.” Our Saviour cured the child immediately; and turning to his disciples told them they had not been able to cure him themselves, because they did not believe in Him so truly as He had hoped. The Disciples asked him, "Master, who is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven? Jesus called a little child to him, and took him in His arms, and stood him among them, and answered. “A child like this. I say unto you that none but those who are as humble as little children shall enter into Heaven. Whosoever shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me. But whosoever hurts one of them n were better for him that he had a millstone tied about his neck, and We^^ 0 a Wned i ln i h L de^ 0f the sea ' angels are aII children.” -Our Savior loved the child, and i-

loved all children. Yes, and all the world. No one ever loved all the people, so well and so truly as He did. Peter asked Him, “Lord, how often shall I forgive any one who offends me? Seven times?” Our Savior answered, “Seventy times seven times, and more than that. For how can you hope that God will forgive you, when you do wrong, unless you forgive all other people!” BBS AND He told His disciples this story. He said there was once a Servant who owed his Master a great deal of money, and could not pay it. At which the Master. being very angry was going to have this Sen-ant sold for a slave. But the servant kneeling down and begging his Master’s pardon with great sorrow, the Master forgave him. Now this same senant had a fellow-servant who owed him a hundred pence, and instead of being kind and forgiving to this poor man, as his master had been to him, he put him in prison for the debt. His master, hearing of it, went to him, and said, “Oh wicked Servant. I forgave you. why did you not forgive your fellow servant!” And because he had not done so, his master turned him away with great misery. “So,” said Our Saviour; “how can you expect God to forgive you, if you do not forgive others!” This is the meaning of that part of the Lord's prayer, where we say “forgive us our trespasses” that word means faults—“as we forgive them that trespass against us.” And He told them another story, and said “There was a certain Farmer once, who had a Vineyard and he went out early in the morning, and agreed with some labourers to work there all day, for a Penny. And bye and bye when it was later, he went out

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ON Thursday night, March 29. at Ertglish's, Katherine Cornell will bring her repertory to Indianapolis on her first visit since "The Green Hat.” On the opening night, this leading actress of the theater will present her conception of Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet.” On Friday night and Saturday matinee she will be seen in Rudolf B .sier s "The Barretts of Wimpole Street” and on Saturday night she will be seen in George Bernard Shaw's “Candida.” This schedule gives to Indianapolis the entire repertory which she is carrying on tour. The following data on Miss Cornell and her plays has been received. Miss Cornell now acts a Shakespearean role for the first time. She has said that her aim in this production has been to give Shakespeare's romance not as a vehicle for a star or as a musty museum piece, but as a great and sweeping tragedy. To this end. she has restored three scenes not acted in thirty years in the American theater. She has employed new stage technical devices which permit the twenty scenes to be changed rapidly one after the other without breaking the spell or the movement of* the drama. There is only one intermission. In no sense has she “modernized” this classic story, though her approach to it is realistic as it is to all plays she produces. Her method, her acting and her production have aroused much discussion wherever she has presented "Romeo and Juliet." "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" has reached its 600th performance in the United States. As Elizabeth Barrett. Miss Cornell is seen in one of the longest roles ever written. She is on the stage from the rise of the first curtain until within three minutes of the end of the play. The story is the famous romance of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, set against the cruelty of Elizabeth's father. Before she became a star. Miss Cornell acted "Candida.” Now she is seen in the comedy for the first times outside New York City. Shaw is reported to have said that she is the greatest of all the many Candidas. The play tells of Morell. the suburban London parson, his wife. Candida, and the rebellious young poet. Marchbanks; of how the familiar triangle theme takes life when the participants become human beings acting at cross purpose. Basil Rathbone, well known star of the s.age and the screen, is seen in the leading male roles in the three plays. A large company assists these players. Guthrie McClintic staged the three productions. • am THIS is the first public announcement of the presentation of "The Passion According to

again and engaged some more labourers on the same terms; and bye and bye went out again; and so on, several times, until the afternoon. When the day was over, and they all came to be paid, those who had worked since morning complained that those who had not Degun to work until late in the day had the same money as themselves, and they said it was not fair. But the master said, “Friend, I agreed with you for a Penny; and is it less money to you, because I give the same money to another man?” Our Saviour meant to teach them by this, that people who have done good all their lives, long, will go to Heaven after they are dead. But that people who have been wicked, because of their being miserable, or not having parents and friends to take care of them when young and who are truly sorry for it, however late in their lives, and pray God to forgive them, will be forgiven and will go to Heaven too. He taught His disciples in these stories, because He knew the people likely to hear them, and would remember what He said better, if He said it in that way. They are called Parables—THE PARABLES OF OUR SAVIOUR; and I wish you to remember that word, as I shall soon have some more of these Parables to tell you about. B B B THE people listened to all that our Saviour said, but were not agreed among themselves about Him. The Pharisees and Jews had spoken to some of them against Him, and some of them were inclined to do Him harm and even murder Him. But they were afraid, as yet, to do Him any harm, because of His goodness, and His looking so divine and

St. Matthews,” by Johann Sebastian Bach, to be given by the combined choirs of the First Presbyterian church. This Passion will be given three times during the Lenten season. The first presentation will be at the Indiana girls’ school. Two presentations will be given at the j ! First Presbyterian church. One will be March 25, at 7:30, the other April 1, at 4:30 p. m. Two presentations are given at the church to afford every one an opportunity to hear this great work. The St. ’'ffthew Passion” is regarded by critics as the greatest piece of sacred music ever written. These presentations mark the first time the work has been attempted in Indianapolis, The work will be conducted by George Frederick Holler, minister of music at the church, and the organ will be played by Miss Gertrude Free. A number of soloists will be used, including the following: Mrs. Grace McKnight, Mrs Wendell Coler. Mrs. Louise Osborne, Miss Gertrude Nast, Mr. Vernon Roth. Mr. Gian Shoup. Henry I Frazier, Wallace Knapp and Mr. ! George Osborne. W. H. CALDWELL FILES FOR REPRESENTATIVE Civil Service for State Police Advocated by City Man. The creation of a civil service system for the Indiana state police, which would keep the organization ; cut of politics, is advocated by William H. Caldwell, 422 Eastern avenue. who today filed his candidacy on the Republican ticket for the of- I fice of state representative. He also favors a state law to prevent employers from employing per- I sons more than six days a week, for | a certain number of hours. Mr. Caldwell is a graduate of Shortridge high school, and has lived in Indianapolis practically his entire life. SEEKS COUNCIL OFFICE Frank R. Beckwith Will Seek Republican Nomination. Frank R. Beckwith today announced his candidacy for the Re- j publican nomination for council! i from the Third district, on a plat- : form favoring civil service for police \ and firemen, new business, encour- | agement to a building campaign, re- ! duction of taxes, a housing plan, and the prevention of overlapping ; :n city departments. Mr. Beckwith is chairman of the Indiana council of the National Emergency Advisory Council for Negroes. He is a member of the St. Paul African Methodist church. Astronomy Group to Meet "Stars of Spring” will be the subject discussed by Samuel Waters at the meeting of the astronomy group of the Nature Study Club i at the Rauh library, at 7:30 Tuesiday night.

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grand—although He was very simply dressed; almost like the poor people—that they could hardly bear to meet his eyes. One morning, He was sitting in a place called the Mount of Olives, teaching the people who were all clustered round Him, listening and learning attentively, when a great noise was heard, and a crowd of Pharisees, and some other people like them, called Scribes, came running in, with great cries and shouts, dragging among them a woman who had done wrong, and they all cried out together, “Master! Look at this woman. The law

CITY CAFES TO BE INSPECTED Health Board Maps Fight Against Spread of Dysentery. All public eating houses in Indianapolis will undergo a rigid inspection by the health board. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, said today. Determined to clean up all unsanitary conditions in restaurants and eating places that might bring on an outbreak of amebic dysentery which took a toll of forty lives in Chicago, Dr. Morgan ordered the second general checkup of the year. “Most of the restaurants in Indianapolis are in good shape as far as sanitary conditions are concerned,” the health officer said. “At least 95 per cent of them have a rating from excellent to good.” The purpose of the inspection is aimed at the 5 per cent of restaurants and lunch rooms that have not maintained their establishments in strict conformity to the city code. Dr. Morgan said.

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Jesus With the Woman Taken in Adultery, by Gustave Dore

says she shall be pelted with stones until she is dead. But what say you? what say you?” Jesus looked upon the noisy crowd attentively, and knew that they had come to make Him say the law was w’rong and cruel; and that if He said so, they would make it a charge against Him and would kill Him. They were ashamed and afraid as He looked into their faces, but they still cried out, “Come! what say you Master? what say you?” Jesus "stooped down, and wrote with his finger in the sand on the ground, “He that is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.” As they read

CANDIDATE SOLICITING CIGAR ROUSES IRE OF MAYOR'S MESSENGER

Chris Fisher, Negro messenger for Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, was in a high state of indignation today as he scurried about the city hall performing his official duties. Noticing something radically amiss from his usual jovial manner, city officials were quick to inquire the reason. “Can you imagine the crust of some of these candidates,” Chris exclaimed vehemently. “A little while ago a candidate for judge came up and asked ME to give HIM a cigar.” Although Chris refused to divulge the name of the “depression” candidate, some office seeker is likely to be a poor drawing card along Indiana avenue when the primaries roll around, city hall prognosticators assert. Girls’ Toe Crushed by Piano Frances Davis, 14, of 937 East Raymond street, suffered a crushed toe on her right foot today while helping to move a piano in the Garfield park community house. At city hospital it was feared that it might be necessary to amputate the toe.

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this, looking over one another’s shoulders, and as He repeated the words to them, they went away, one by one, ashamed, until not a man of all the noisy crowd was left there; and Jesus Christ, and the woman, hiding her face in her hands, alone remained. Then said Jesus Christ, “Woman, where are thine accusers? Hath no man condemned Thee?” She answered, trembling, “No, Lord!” Then said our Saviour. “Neither do I condemn Thee. Go! and sin no more!” (Copyright for North and South America. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc., all rights reserved.) (Continued Monday)

GAS COMPANY CUTSDEFICIT Decrease Due to Decline in Operating Expense, Report Shows. Annual deficit of the Citizens Gas Company was decreased $100,738.64 during 1933, it was shown today in the annual report of the company filed with the Indiana public service commission. The deficit for 1933 was $137,211.36, compared with an operating deficit of $238,000 in 1932. The decrease in deficit was made despite a decline in both operating and nonoperating revenues. It was due to a like decrease in operating expenses. Gross revenues of the company fell from $4,341,634.28 in 1932 to $4,110,288.29 in 1933. The net loss in patrons in 1932 was 3,844. but in 1933 only 519 patrons were lost. The company, according to a trust agreement in 1905. is required to pay a 10 per cent cumulative annual dividend upon its $2,000,000 common stock. This dividend has not been paid since June 30, 1932. and the company owes its stockholders 5325.000. Its preferred stock dividend. $50,000 annually on $1,000,000 worth of stock, has been paid regularly.

LAWRENCEBURG PORT BEGINS_WORK MONDAY William Reynolds to Take Charge of Liquor Entry Station. Wray Fleming, collector of customs, announced today that the new Lawrenceburg sub-port, recently approved by President Roosevelt, will be opened Monday. William Reynolds will serve as chief deputy. Liquor stored in the Lawrenceburg distilleries will net the go*'- i eminent approximately $1,500,000 : i duties and taxes, the collector said. Two distilleries are operating in Lawrenceburg and one is being built. The town serves qs a port of entry for liquor used in blending purposes. CLEMENCY IS DENIED 17 Five Granted Paroles, but RayPalmer Request Is Refused. Seventeen petitions for clemency were denied at the present session of the state clemency commission. Five paroles were granted Ray Palmer, sentenced in Marion county Sept. 3, 1930, to serve ten years on a charge of participating in the holdup of a street car con- j ductor, was denied a parole yesterday. Child Burned by Grease Members of the fire department , rescue squad administered first aid to Charles E. Clark. 5, of 1527 East Raymond street, today, when the child was burned on the arm by gretse in the kitchen of his home.'

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler RESIDENTS of Washington. D. C.. are beginning to fret about the wear and tear which has been inflicted upon their body in the course of the last year by th* Hon. Francis Shoemaker, the problemcongressman from Minnesota. Twice in the course of his brief career as a statesman. Congressman Shoemaker has socked residents of the national capital. He socked his first victim for playing radio with malice aforethought and the other evening he hopped out of his automobile and socked a taxi-

driver for getting in front of him in tiaffic. Congressmen are allowed certain special privileges in the city; but the law specifically states that they are not allowed to go around punching citizens, so the problem-states-man from Minnesota begins to assume uie proportions of a nuisance and the public prosecutor is taking steps. Moreover. Mr. Shoemaker's fellow-statesmen in the house have taken formal notice ot his case and there is a possibility that they will impeach him. This is only a remote possibility, however, as the citizens of his district would be likely to send him right back to congress -and the

net results would be no relief, but great public expense. As an alternative to Impeachment or a term in the local jail-house for socking the taxi driver who had the effrontery" to get in front of Mr. Shoemaker's car in traffic, it is proposed that the citizens supply the honorable gent with some sparring partners who can take it and also dish it. There is no appropriation for the hiring of sparring partners for congressmen. but this might not be necessary in view of the presence here of several other statesmen who might be willing to undertake this duty for the pleasure of socking Congressman Shoemaker. BBS It's Serious Business A MONG the athletes in trfe halls of the grand -tV old sacred heritage is a young man from Milwaukee named Ray Cannon. Mr. Cannon served as counsel for the so-called Black Sox of Chicago some years ago when they were made national outcasts for the crime of throwing some world series ball games contrary to the business interests of their employer. The citizens of the American nation were horrified by this betrayal and were not appeased until the erring athletes had been dismissed from the baseball profession in disgrace. The citizens similarly were horrified by the conduct of various Governors, mayors and judges, who betrayed their trust in office, but these were trivial offenses by comparison. It is serious business for an athlete employed by a private corporation, organized for profit, to throw a world series ball game. Under these circumstances Mr. Cannon, as counsel for the Black Sox, would have done well if he had saved them from life imprisonment so it was an even greater feat to keep them out of jail altogether. On the basis of this and other achievements Mr. Cannon has been sent to congress, where he now finds himself on friendly personal terms with Congressman Shoemaker, the socking statesman. Mr. Cannon weighs about 215 pounds and keeps in good condition by boxing and wrestling in the gymnasium of the house of representatives. He has decided that Mr. Shoemaker, despite his tendency to sock citizens, has the interests of the citizens at heart and always votes for legislation which is intended to give them government funds or other advantages. Rather than impeach a statesman so right-minded he could be induced to meet him in the gymnasium and engage In a little free socking any morning that Mr. Shoemaker feels inclined. BBS There're Some to Fight THE Hon. Fred Britten of Chicago used to be a fairly useful sort of man at fist fighting, but Mr. Britten never boxed above 147 pounds and he is no youth any more, whereas Mr. Shoemaker is not crowded with youthful vigor. But the Hon. Warren Barbour over on the senate side used to be an amateur heavyweight champion and the Hon. Fred Hale, another senator, is said to have done some pleasurefighting in his time. The point is merely that Mr. Shoemaker, when he feels in need of work, need not go around punching the citizens at catch weights, an arrangement which has given him a great advantage in his fights up to this time, but can find plenty of action among his own kind. Mr. Shoemaker’s interesting career includes a short term in Leavenworth prison for sending a letter to a banker in an envelope which was scrawled over with impolite remarks on the subject of bankers. This was an unlawful act at the time, but the status of bankers has changed considerably in the meanwhile and the president restored Mr. Shoemaker's citizenship within the last year. He did not give Mr. Shoemaker a medal for writing those remarks about bankers, but that may be only unfinished business. I believe I could put Mr. Shoemaker and Mr. Cannon in the way of a little money if they would care to fight in public. The citizens should respond nobly to the spectacle of two congressmen being socked at once especially if by some arrangement both statesmen could get the worst of it. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science r— BY DAVID DIETZ

STARS provide us with invisible as well as visible starlight. Just as the sun gives off invisible ultra-violet rays and invisible heat or infra-red rays in addition to visible light, so do the stars. Study of these invisible radiations in the case of the sun has gone on for many years. Sir William Herschel made the first observation in 1800 when he found that a blackened thermometer bulb placed beyond the red end of the sun’s visible spectrum was warmed. The following year, J. W. Ritter noted the darkening of silver chloride placed beyond the violet end of the solar spectrum. Dr. Paul W. Merrill of the Mt. Wilson observatory believes that the time now has come when astronomers can with profit pay more attention to the infra-red and ultra-violet radiations of the stars. Stars of low temperature—that is low for stars — give off more energy in the form of infra-red rays than they do in the form of visible light. Dr. Merrill says. Stars in this class are the so-called red giants, such as Antares and Betelgeuse. Stars of intermediate temperature, such as our own sun, having a surface temperature of about 10,000 degrees, Fahrenheit, give off most of their energy in the form of visible light, he says. Stars of very high temperature, such as the brillii.nl bluewhite stars, give off most energy in the ultra-violet region of the spectrum. a a u THE stars all are very lai away and so the question which at once arises is what happens to their light by the time it reaches the earth The nearest star is about 25 000.000.000.000 miles away. The answer, according to Dr. Merrill, is that not much of anything happens until the starlight reaches the earth’s atmosphere. Os course, the actual amount of light from any star which reaches the earth Is very little, indeed, but practically nothing happens to the character of ihe light. But, as Dr. Merrill says, '‘We are forced to study the stars from the bottom of a great ocean of air many miles deep. What this ocean does to starlight constitutes the next chapter of the story.” To begin with, the atmosphere shuts off all pltraviolet light shorter than certain wavelengths. This, as is now known, is due the presence oi ozone, a form of electrified oxygen in the upper atmosphere. This stoppage of the short wavelengths or ultraviolet fro-m the stars is a meat inconvenience to the astronomer. But the stoppage of .hose same wavelengths from the sun is a good thing for astronomers and all the rest of the world. For these shori wavelengths of ultra-violet >ighi are deadly and if the sun’s supply of them got through to the surface of the earth, it would kill every plant and animal upon it. ana AT the other end of the spectrum, the Infra-red rays have some trouble but in general they are transmitted in better fashion. They are ’mutilated but not annihilated,” Dr. Merrill tells us.

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