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It Seem to Me HEYW® BROUN A FEW months ago I gave my sense of humor back to the Indians. On account of all the serious problems in the world I decided that it would be silly for me ever to write anything which was consciously funny. My friends assure me that I have kept my word and that there has been no laugh in this column since the vow was taken. Some of them insist on going even farther back, quite unaware of the fact that “grandma wasn’t playing." But of late I have begun to wonder whether it will be altogether a good thing to have every single sense of humor checked at the same time. A grain or so might come in handy before the revolution, and even during and after. The matter comes into my mind because of a newspaper plot discovered by Sender Gariin, one of the columnists of the Daily

Worker. “Marchers in the gigantic May day parade in New York carried a monstrous-looking figure wearing a top hat,” began Mr. Gariin, “From its mouth hung a yellow tongue. It was labeled The Press.’ Capitalist newspaper reports on the greatest May day demonstration ever held in the United States thoroughly justify this description." a a a firings Not Deemed Fit A GREAT many newspaper men believe that labor news does not get its fair amount of

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space in American newspapers. New York papers are much more comprehensive than those in smaller cities, but, even so, they fail to print a great deal of material about strikes, lockouts and trade union activities which distinctly ought to fall under the head of news. I believe that strongly, and have said so on many occasions, and so I looked eagerly to see what evidence Sender Gariin has unearthed. Did the capitalist newspapers minimize the size of the Communist demonstration? Apparently that was not the complaint. Mr. Gariin stated that he lound “fewer flagrant distortions of the main features of the demonstration than on previous occasions. "The technique was more subtle and insidious. Here is the first and leading section in Sender Garlin’s bill of particulars: -From the Herald Tribune: ‘The next youngest red participant was Irving Feldman. 4',, who was approached by reporters seeking his views on the Third Internationale. But his mother intervened. ‘lrving!’ she commanded sternly, ‘don t. talk to the capitalist press." Now. I submit that anybody who does not recognize that as a perfectly legitimate human interest news note simply isn’t a good newspaper man, whether he be right, left or dead center in his political views. I don’t see why it couldn't have fitted perfectly properly into the Daily Worker's own story of the parade. Nobody is taking away anything from the impressiveness of the demonstration by pointing out that a few funny things are bound to occur among a vast throng even though it be dedicated to a cause. Some of the Communist floats, though grim enough, still were aimed at arousing laughter. * a a a Good Party Doctrine AND even if the Daily Worker can see nothing humorous in Irving Feldman's refusal to talk for publication it might still class-angle the incident and cite it as an example of party discipline beginning at an early age. Which, of course, is the best time to begin. Mr. Gariin thinks there is something very significant in the fact that no less than three New York papers used Irving Feldman. I can explain that very easily. There is a growing sense of solidarity among reporters. Very likely the Herald Tribune man had a beat, but generously passed it along to the Post and Times representatives. I think that is much more likely than the opposing theory that Mr. Rockefeller called up Mr. Morgan and said, “Send the word out to our newspaper lackeys. Let’s get Irving Feldman!” Nor is Mr. Gariin content to nail this piece of bourgeois propaganda as a plot to kid the Communists. He finds even deeper and more subtle villainy in the intent, of the reporters. "And don't miss." he adds, “the cute little antiSenutic touch in concentrating all the attention on ‘little Irving Feldman. ’ ” tt tt tt The Right to Tour Own Name WELL, maybe he was little and maybe his name was Irving Feldman. And w’hat on earth is the matter with the name Irving Feldman? Does Sender Gariin dare contend that the reporters should have overridden the lad’s right to his own honorable name and put him down in their stories as “great, big. enormous Paddy O'Rourke’’? I gravely suspect Mr. Gariin of green chauvinism. The Times is cited a second time for capitalistic misrepresentation, and this time I must admit that the propaganda which Mr. Garvin recognizes is so deeply insidious that I can't make head or tail of it. Speaking of the Scottsboro mothers, the Times said, according to Mr. Garlin's quotation. “The Negro women carried bouquets of daffodils and roses and were enjoying their moment." What could be fairer than that? It was the largest and most impressive Communist demonstration ever staged in New York, and so why shouldn’t Communist sympathizers enjoy it? In a world in which there is so much legitimate and pressing need for effective protest I hate to find any revolutionary journal trying to see how many gnats he can go per hour. There are still camels to be conquered. • Copvrißht. 1934. bv The Times)

Your Health Bl DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

HAVE your teeth examined by X-ray every year, and you will avoid one of the most dangerous conditions of the human body—pyorrhea. This disease may not attract as much attention as an acute tonsilitis. but the amount of danger to your system is greater, simpy because the condition is hidden and the amount of tissue infected may be much greater. Pyorrhea is a disease of the gums. Caries is a disease of the teeth. Quite frequently a person may have both caries and pyorrhea at one time. Either is bad enough. Since the time when it was proved that pus pockets beneath the teeth in the gums could result in dangerous symptoms of the body as a whole, much more attention has been given to this subject. m m m ALTHOUGH pyorrhea is most frequently seen in middle age or later life, children of from 8 to 10 years of age sometimes have the redness and swelling of the gums which are the danger of this disease. Associated with the pus collections at the bottom of the teeth may be looseness, particularly of the front teeth, and soreness of the gums to the touch or on pressure. An X-ray examination by your dentist, therefore. may catch pyorrhea in its early stages and prevent or eliminate a great deal of the infection and other disturbances. Unfortunately, the condition sometimes is allowed to proceed so far that saving of the teeth is impossible. Your dentist can treat this disease with various measures leading to clearing up of the condition, elimination of the cause, and building up of the tissue. mum HE eliminates the condition by thorough attention to decay of the teeth, by evacuating the pus from the abscesses and treating them with suitable antiseptics, and by making sure that the teeth are properly arranged to avoid rubbing and shock. Therefore, teeth that are removed must be replaced. and teeth that are out of line put in proper order. He will prevent the disease by teaching dental hygiene, thus providing for the removal of collections of tartar and debris around and between the teeth. He will also make certain that the teeth are kept sufficiently clean to avoid the establishment of bacteria in cavities and crevices. Your diet should be arranged to provide enough calcium, phosphorus, and vitamins A, C and D to keep teeth and gums in good nutritional condition.

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The Romantic and Beautiful

LOVE LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS

Two Amazing Interludes in the Life of a Great Artist

BY H. H. HARPER WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Charles Dickens met Maria Beadnell,beautiful daughter of a banker in excellent circumstances. A year’s ardent courtship ensued. Mr. and Mrs. Beadnell feeling that Dicken’s prospects were too ooor for him to be considered as a prospective husband for Maria, sent her to Paris. Later she returned. The old love affair flamed anew. But Maria vaccilated. Dickens wrote her a poignant farewell letter. Maria consulted her -best friend.” Mary Anne Leigh, as to the best course. Mary Ann-, desiring Dickens for herself, advised the return of his letters and the breaking of the friendship. This Maria did, alleging to Dickens that he had made a confidante of Mary Anne and was friendly to her. This Dickens denied in a glowing letter, at the same time sending a letter of barbed sarcasm to Mary Anne, and enclosing a copy of the letter to Maria. Maria definitely rejected Dickens. Heartbroken with wounded pride he gave up Maria and turned with fierce intensity to his work, determined to make something of his life. a a a ONE night he went home to dinner with an older fellow-worker on the Chronicle, George Hogarth, the father of three charming daughters, Catherine, Mary and Georgina. He promptly fell in love with them all—(strange there should also have been three girls in this family). Catherine being the only one of marriageable age, she became his first choice; and in his lonely distraught frame of mind, half crazed by his sudden success, he soon asked her to marry him. There was no parental opposition; George Hogarth sensed the future of Dickens, and Catherine, always amiable and obliging, consented. His fame swept on. Chapman & Hall, London publishers, asked him to write the text to accompany a series of comic sporting prints to be published in monthly parts. From his bachelor quarters in Furnival's inn he wrote to his fiancee, telling of this offer of fourteen pounds a month and he decided to try it.

These articles were “The Pickwick Papers” and, as every one knows, they made him the most famous author in England. Then he married Catherine, who never really loved him, who could never understand him, and both were doomed to a life of unhappiness. a a a BACK at Number 2 Lombard street, we can easily picture Maria Beadnell searching the house for every letter Dickens had ever written her, to be treasured above all else, now that he was lost to her forever. As “Pickwick" continued and Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickelby appeared, all taking the town by storm, the elder Beadnells must have stared in stolid wonder, and little Maria perhaps spent many repentant hours thinking, all too late, of what she would have gained had she been a little more compliant. The years passed; Maria saw him rise to undreamed of heights; saw his books in their green paper covers appearing monthly in every corner in every bookseller’s window—eagerly purchased by thousands of readers. Saw his stories

TODAY and TOMORROW tt tt tt tt tt tt By Walter Lippmann

COMPARING Washington today and Washington a year ago, it may be said that the 1933 recovery program was “national” and that he 1934 program is “international.” This does not mean that the 1933 program has failed and is being abandoned. It does mean that its limitations are clearer, and that the need to supplement it is more evident.

On the part of the administration this change is manifested by its determination to expand trade by lowering tariffs. A year ago the administration had only an academic interest in international trade, and made no serious attempt to obtain power over the traffic. On the part of congress the interest is centered in the demand for a silver policy. This is an international remedy. Congress is passionately interested in silver as a means of raising international prices. Twelve months ago the things that most urgently needed to be done were almost entirely domestic in character. It was necessary to bring the dollar into line with the currencies of the British nations and of the sterling bloc. That could be done by following their example and changing the value of the dollar in relation to gold. It was necessary to reopen and stabilize the banks, to put the budget in order and to protect the federal credit, to lelieve the unemployed, the debtors, the farmers, industries demoralized by excessive competition. All these things it was possible to do by our national effort. They have been well enough done to produce a recovery to the general level which existed before the international financial crash in the summer of 1931. a a a BUT the winter of 1931. though it was much better than the winter of 1932 and 1933. was still a period of hard times. Led by Mr. Wallace and Mr. Hull, the administration has been explaining very candidly to the country that if we are to go the rest of the way to recovery we must recover a considerable part of the international trade which we have lost. The alternative f to regiment agriculture and industry in an effort to reduce production. To reduce production is to lower the American standard of life. Therefore, while continuing to use all the powers it has to promote domestic recovery, the administration now is asking for power to promote international recovery. It is significant that congress is almost certainly prepared to grant these powers. This is all clear enough. What is perhaps not so generally realized is that the silver agitation in congress is inspired by a wholly international view of the problem of low prices. If congress believed that we could solve our difficulties by domestic inflation alone, it would be calling for greenbacks or for a further devaluation of the dollar. But that is not what congress wants. It is not asking that the dollar should be debased further in relation to the value of gold. On the contrary, it is asking that gold the worli over shall be reduced in value by diluting it with silver. What does that mean? Let us take a very simple illustration which. I believe, fairly describes the essence of silver agitation in congress. When we were still on the gold standard, fourteen months ago, cotton sold in the United States for about 6 cents a pound. It sold for 6 gold cents. Today, anywhere outside the United States, it sells for about 6 gold cents. There has been no rise in the world price cf cotton. But in the

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dramatized and played in the theaters; read of his appearance at great public functions; read of his journey to America and his satirical “American Notes.” While all England was enjoying his “Christmas Carol,” it must have dampened her holiday spirit to know that she had foolishly sacrificed the privilege of sharing the fame of its author. The creation of those immortal characters. Pecksniff. Mrs. Gamp, Tom Pinch, and many others, took place all within ten short years of the time when she had sent him away. ana SHE now discovered how wonderful his boyhood's letters had been; how favored she had been to have had them addressed to her; and how narrowly she had missed the golden opportunity of becoming the wife of a great international character. And so in silent penitence she continued her middle-class life, coqueting her way along with the “eligibles" that her discriminating parents approved; and on Feb. 25, 1845, she married Henry

United States cotton now sells for about eleven of the new cents. There has been a rise in the American price which is just about equivalent to the debasement of the dollar. a a a NOW congress wants cotton to go higher. How can it go higher? The silver people say one of two things can happen. If cotton remains at fi cents gold outside of America, then to iaise the price the dollar will have to be cheapened inside of America. If, on the other hand, gold itself becomes cheaper, prices will rise outside of America, and without domestic inflation or debasement prices will rise inside of America. The silver movement can therefore be described in one sentence as a movement to cheapen gold all over the world. How does it propose to cheapen gold? The silver people say that if the world suddenly discovered new gold mines, as it did in the 90s. gold would become cheaper, because there would be more of it. When gold began to be cheap about 1900, prices rose all over the world and brought prosperity. But there are no new gold mines in sight. So. say the silver people, let us use the other precious metal as an equivalent for gold. Make silver legal money exchangeable for gold and it will produce the same effect as if the world had discovered new' gold. It will cheapen gold, raise world prices, make further paper inflation unnecessary and restore i solvency. The silver movement is an attempt to raise the world price level. The devaluation of the dollar has merely raised the American price level.' That is why it can be said that the silver movement is “international” in its purpose. The objections to a silver policy are. I believe, based chiefly on its practical difficulties. It is hard to obtain agreement among the nations to restore silver as money. It is something of a gambit for one country to restore silver by itself. But there are few' students of the question who would deny that if the practical difficulties can be overcome, if gold can be diluted with silver, prices will rise in the world at large. i Copyright. 1934' SOCIALISTS WILL NOT APPEAR IN PRIMARY No Provision for Minority Parties Made by State. Socialists will not participate in the primary today, according to an announcement by the public affairs committee of the county Socialist party. The state primary law makes no provision for minority parties in primary elections, so that Socialist candidates will not appear on the ballot. To meet this situation, party conventions are being arranged throughout the state in which county and municipal candidates will be chosen. Delegates now are being chosen for the state convention May 19 and 20. Pope Sees Steel Magnate By United Pr-'ss VATICAN CITY. May B—The pope granted an audience today to Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the beard of United States Steel, and Mrs. Taylor.

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Louis Winter, who for the time being put an abrupt end to her romantic career. Henceforth, Maria must be content to be the staid little wife of a staid little business man. living a narrow' existence in a narrow world where nothing in particular could happen: and Cupid entered her on the “closed” list, until he should call on her again ten years later, to play a leading rdle in the second chapter of one of the most absorbing love romances in history. a a a SEVENTEEN years after breaking with Maria Beadnell — Charles Dickens—his fame secure in all the world, resting on a long

WARDEN HEARD IN SLUNK CASE States Dillinger Could Not Have Locked Deputies in Jail Cells. By United Press CROWN POINT. Ind., May B. Trial of Ernest Blunk, fingerprint expert at the Lake county jail w r ho is charged with aiding the escape of John Dillinger. March 3, was adjourned today for the primary election. Testimony will be resumed tomorrow before Special Judge Maurice E. Crites in criminal court. Lew' Baker, warden of the jail, was the chief witness called by the state yesterday. Baker testified that contrary to the general belief. Dillinger :ould not have locked a cell door on jail attendants and trusties because he was not near the lever box at the time. The witness related how he w'as ordered into a cell by Dillinger w'ho “shoved something in my back.” “The door must have been closed by someone else,” he explained, “because it has to be operated by a lever box at the end of the hallway and Dillinger w'as standing in front of the cell all the time.” Plane Service to Suspend By United Press CHICAGO. May B.—The southwest will be without airplane passenger or mail service after Saturday. it w r as indicated in an announcement made here today that United Air Lines would discontinue service on that day from Kansas City to Dallas.

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series of brilliant novels—began to write his greatest story, E>avid Copperfield. As every Dickens lover knows, he modeled his hero very much after himself and wove a great many of the actual happenings of his own life into the tale. And so when it came to the painting of David s sweetheart, to the telling of his first love affair, he turned back the pages of memory and made the never-to-be-forgotten picture of Dora from the image of Maria Beadnell, who was still enshrined in his heart. Thus from David Copperfield we get the true portrait of Maria Beadnell—and what girl in all the world's books of lovefrs has ever been so immortalized. Dickens’ admirers w’ill read with renewed interest the following passages, which are now substantiated for the most part as true history by the author himself, who later herein w'rites to Maria Beadnell Winter—“no one will ever be as terribly in earnest as I and David Copperfield w r ere. People used to say to me. how pretty all that was, and how fanciful it w-as. and how elevated it was, above the little foolish loves of very young men and women. But they little thought what reason I had to know it was true, and nothing more or less.”. a a a Remembering Maria with her dog Daphne, he gave Dora a dog. Jip, and reproduced Maria’s fondness for her pet in Dora’s love for Jip. He gave the following account of his first visit to her house, and the first dinner party: “I don’t remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is that I dined off Dora entirely. and sent away half a dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, May 8. —Behind the veterans’ veto landslide which engulfed the administration was a thick-set, heavy-jawed individual. who chews the end of a cigar, talks in a loud rasping voice, and would buttonhole Queen Mary if he met her in a senate corridor. He is John Thomas Taylor of the American Legion Legislative Council and the most effective lobbyist on Capitol Hill since the days of Wayne B. Wheeler and his dry cohorts. Taylor's motto is: “We’re right, our opponents rae wrong. Right always wins and that’s that.” Using this motto Taylor has been instrumental in slipping into the pockets of veterans one dollar out of every four spent by Uncle Sam. His own salary is $6,000 plus “traveling expenses.” Taylor learned the legislative racket as undercoverman for Boies Penrose, famous boss of Pennsylvania. During the war he won thirteen decorations, came back to help found the American Legion, was law partner of Thomas Miller. Harding's Alien Property Custodian, later sent to federal penitentiary. The method of Taylor’s success is no secret. His weapon is "direct action.” He has behind him an army of Legionnaires which can ring doorbells. And many an ex-member of congress knows how' effectively they can ring. Taylor has but to threaten “to get” a recalcitrant congressman, and that congressman knows that he faces one of the election battles of his life. This, primarily, was what over-rode Roosevelt's veto.

Roosevelt now has the distinct io n— not altogether unique among White House incumbents—of being kicked from both sides of the street. Hitherto, conservative business interests have led the attack. But the veterans’ veto onslaught was led from the opposite camp. In fact it was a blow at business almost more than the President. For the whole Roosevelt policy is based on the plan of a balanced budget by 1936. The government can not continue borrowing money with its budget unbalanced. On this, conservative elements are 100 per cent for Roosevelt, in fact go beyond him. With the veteran's

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rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.’’ And when, next morning, he met her in the garden—“l never saw such curls—how could I, for there never were such curls as those she shook out to hide her blushes! As to the straw hat and blue ribbons which was on top of the curls, if I could only have hung it up in my room in Buckingham street, what a priceless possession it would have been! . . .” a a a THICKENS thus describes David Copperfleld s feelings on the way to the picnic—“l shall never have such a ride again; I have never had such another. There were only those three, their hamper, my hamper and the guitar case in the phaeton; and. of course, the phaeton was open; and I rode behind it. and Dora sat with her back to the horses, looking toward me. She kept the bouquet close to her on the cushion and w’ould not allow' Jip to sit on that side of her at all. for fear he should crush it. She often carried it in her hand, often refreshed herself with its fragrance. Our eyes at those times often met and my very great astonishment is that I did not go over the head of my gallant gray into the carriage. There was dust. I believe. There was a good deal of dust, I believe. I have a faint impression that Mr. Spanlow (George Beadnell, Maria's father) remonstrated wdth me for riding in it; but I knew' of none. I w r as sensible of a mist of love and beauty about Dora, but of nothing else. He stood up sometimes and asked what I thought of the prospect; I said it was delightful, and I daresay it was; but it was all Dora to me. The sun shone Dora, and the birds sang Dora. The south wind blew Dora, and the wild flowers in the hedges were all Doras to a bud." In tomorrow's episode we learn what actually happened to Charles and Maria in their courtship through his personal novel, David Copperfield. (Copyright. 1934. John F. Dille Cos l

vote, however, a balanced budget is out the window. This brings up another thing. “Controlled” inflation is fine as long as it is controlled. But once a runaway congress runs away with inflation, as it did with veterans’ compensation, we may find ourselves hauling money in wheelbarrows ala Germany after the war. Unquestionably, that is the most significant signpost in the veteran’s veto reversal. a a a A COUNTY agent coping with the problem of reducing the little pi g crop has sent the department of agriculture a letter received from a farmer in his county. The farmer was doing his best to raise fewer pigs, and to this end had put his prize sow'. Esmeraldo. in one pen and his boar in another adjoining. But unfortunately the boar broke through the fence. “I think the damage is done,” wrote the farmer. “Can you recommend anything I can do?” a a a THE automobile strike compromise seems to have been but the beginning of many set-backs for the American Federation of Labor. By that compromise company unions definitely got their foot in the door at Detroit. But the important question for the future is the automobile labor arbitration board, charged with settling delicate adjustments between the A. F. of L. and company unions. Upon this board depends the whole future of the Detroit labor situation. Consider, then, the consternation of the A. F. of L. when Leo Wolman was appointed its “impartial chairman.” In the opinion of Bill Green and other A. F. of L. moguls, Wolman is anything but impartial. They hate him as the auto industrialists hate them. He is the apostle of “industrial” or “vertical” unions. They have staked their lives on craft unions. Unquestionably there is going to be more trouble in the automobile field. The clash of company and the A. F. of L. unions will not abate. Already there i word from St. Louis that A. F. of L. men are being fired. As arbiter of this feud, charged with exercising the patience of Job and the wisdom of Solomon, will sit the chief labor enemy of the A. F. of L.

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Entered Secnnd-ClaM Mtter at I’ostofflre, Indianapolis. Ind.

Fair Enough moim LOUISVILLE. Ky. t May B.—Your correspondent's tour of the whisky plant began at the main office where the clerical help sat at their desks in long rows punching busily at the keys of the typewriters and counting machines. The girl at the reception desk was cold sober although the time was well along in the afternoon. The other member? of the staff seemed sober, also. There was not a julep in sight on any desk. Not a julep or an old-fashioned or a sour. Not a squaw'k of Sweet Adeline sounded above

the clatter and small tinkle of the office routine. A clerical foreman got up from his desk and walked over to a small brunette to dictate a letter. She took out her ruled notebook, put down his remarks, folded the book away and resumed boxing the keyboard. He spoke in a low voice and kept his distance and a business-like attitude. When he had finished he walked back to his own desk and bent over a pile of papers. He had not thrown an arm around her. kissed her or even called her baby." Remember, this was a distillery; a place where they make 15,000 gallons of whisky every working

day. On a big sign across the width of the building, outside, in letters as tall as a man it said frankly, “Distillery.” a a a No Gin There AT the far end of the room there was a water cooler but it gave only water unless that colorless fluid could have been gin. But it couldn’t have been gin. either. You wouldn’t find gin on tap in a whisky plant. The girl at the reception desk said it would be all right now. Your correspondent could go back and see the head man. Back to that door on the right. The head man’s office looked much more realistic. One wall of the room was devoted to glassed-in cases, containing long shelves with hundreds of bottles in beautiful cardboard containers, row on row. Old Step-Father. Old Aunt Hattie. Old Funnybrook. Old Soak. Old Hedgehog and a large variety of new brands of whisky, all named old something. There also were some cartons of small bottles of a type which has been conspicuous in the .saloons, drug stores, hat stores, candy stores and all such liquor dispensaries since the citizens made a good woman of the whisky business. The head man stepped outside a moment and your correspondent opened a display case and. very respectfully lifted out a pint carton labeled “seventeen years old.” It was so light it almost hopped away. It was a fake. It was empty. It was a dummy and there was not a dram in the entire display in the head man’s office in the. midst of a great distilling plant producing 15.000 gallons a day. tt tt tt Cold-Blooded Sampling npo do the head man’s hospitality justice, however, -I- it must be reported that on his return he did administer medical doses of three grades of whisky, three months, four years and seventeen y°ars old. But it was all done in a very practical way. The samples just moistened the bottom of a liquor glass and he took none himself. It was cold-blooded, critical sampling. And now', lest any one should burst into song in the main office on a working day. he summoned a guide and said. "Now you may go through the plant.” Your correspondent is disinclined to disparage gn industry which has put back to w r ork. on private f>ay rolls, thousands of citizens in the distillery cities and other thousands in the hardw'ood forests and the cooperage plants. The whisky industry is paying taxes, also and has lifted a considerable share of dead weight off the treasury. Yet it is impossible to depict whisky in terms of beauty so soon after a tour of a distillery. The fumes, the corruption seething in the great w'ooden vats and the close heat of the plant did not associate well with the memory of the tall, frosty juleps w-hich were then being served in the hotels and rural mansions of the Kentucky horse country. And even the distilled w'hite whisky, pouring out of a copper spout in a heavily padlocked glass case and trickling down into some final storage vat gave off an odor that was by no means endearing. There was a government gauge in the glass case, measuring the output of the plant at the end of the process, before it should be poured into the barrels and laid away in the warehouses where more padlocks protected the government’s count. Th outside air w'as sw'eet to breathe. Back in the hotel the waiters still w r ere skidding around corners wdth their trays of juleps. Perhaps the precious illusion would return again after a time, but when the waiter came up to the table your correspondent said “make mine vanilla.” (Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

RECENT experiments at Columbia university have revealed the size of the nuclei of various atoms as well as the size of the neutron. The diameter of the neutron, as previously recounted, is one tentrillionth of an inch. The nuclei of the lighter atoms are not much larger than this, according to Dr. George B. Pegram. professor of physics at Columbia. The experiments revealed that the nuclei of light hydrogen, heavy hydrogen, lithium, boron and carbon are apparently very nearly the same size, namely about one five-trillionth of an inch in diameter. The heavier atoms do not have nuclei very much larger than this. An atom as heavy as lead has a nucleus with a diameter of only three five-trillionths of an inch. Dr. Pegram points out that the diameter of the neutron is known more definitely than the diameter of other particles. This is because the neutron is electrically neutral. a a u CONSEQUENTLY, it is only possible to speak of “effective diameter” of an atomic nucleus. ‘‘What we mean by the size of a body is the space occupied by that body, the region into which we can not go without encountering a force that would have to be overcome to go farther,” Dr. Pegram says. ‘ln other words, if you try to walk into the region occupied by a huge stone, you bump your toe. Your toe encounters what in physics we call 'a sharply increasing force.’ ” In defining the diameter of a nucleus, the problem is complicated by the fact that there are present the interaction of the fields of the various particles which go to make up the nucleus. Just how the various particles comprising the nucleus are arranged within it are not yet known. Most physicists believe that new extensions of the quantum theory will be necessary to account for the behavior of particles within the nuclei of atoms. mam IMPORTANT experiments were carried out by Dr. John R. Dunning in co-operation with Professor Harold C. Urey, the discoverer of ‘ heavy water” and the double-weight hydrogen atom These experiments were to test tne way in which heavy water, or “deuterium oxide,” as it is now called, scattered beams of neutrons in comparison to the way that ordinary water did. Since the oxygen in ordinary and in heavy water is the same, any difference' in the scattering would be due to the hydrogen atoms. The nucleus of an ordinary atom of hydrogen consists of merely a proton. while the nucleus of a double-weight hydrogen atom consists of a proton and a neutron. It turned out that heavy water had practically the same scattering effect on neutrons that ordinary water had, Dr. Pegram reports. In many ways, the experiments now being conducted at Columbia emphasize the difference in the behavior of neutrons and charged particles.

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