Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1934 — Page 13

HSeewtoMe HEVWOODMJN IN my youth I read with a high degree of interest “The Research Magnificent,” by H. G. Wells. It concerned, among other things, the life of a timorous young man who decided to cure himself by living dangerously. It was not, as I remember, a mere desire for thrills. The hero of Mr. Wells took on the dual responsibility of danger and good causes. In spite of my interest in the tale I was not altogether persuaded. I wrapped my hands around my own timidity and held on for dear life as if it were a treasure. By now I am convinced that I W'as right and Mr. Wells was wrong. The young man in the book fell finally in action, but the tragedy which the author overlooked was the fact that at the end his lad had become a superman sitting

jauntily above all fears and panics. In other words, he had sacrificed all possibility of excitement. A lesser writer comprehended more clearly the golden gift of fearfulness. In his “Suicide Club” Stevenson presented a character who thanked God because he was a coward. Each night the old gentleman came to take his chance of drawing the fatal card, and his very agony of terror made the evening an epoch. I can present further literary testimony in the fairy tale of the prince who could neither shiver nor shake.

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His highness recognized this condition as a handicap and dropped all other activities in order to effect a cure. tt tt tt From One Who Knows BUT it should not be necessary for me to turn to books, since I am so familiar out of my own experience with the advantages which accrue to our fraternity. I refer to the Order of the Bunny Heart. The average American today steps into a big passenger plane and flies to Toledo or Timbuctoo without the slightest qualm. To him it seems such a normal thing that a flight does not even furnish him with five minutes of dinner table conversation. Eight thousand feet high and half way home from Indianapolis I looked across the aisle at a fellowtraveller and found chat he was fast asleep. He slept solidly from landing field to landing field. And I pitied him. I was too taut even to doze, and I’d rather be terrified any day of the week than sound asleep. To the average citizen of Toledo a stroll along the front in easy range of the gas and the guns was classed as mild diversion. In fact, after a few nights the sightseer element disappeared. The show was insufficiently exciting. But to me it was always an experience. I came early and I stayed late. Twenty years from now I will still be starting long, dull anecdotes beginning, “Now, the first time I was gassed in Toledo” And I wouldn't take SIOO for my arrest. Os course, this happy memory is somewhat clouded by the fact that I find so much skepticism among my friends. They think it was a plant. I am suffering from the fact that when I ran for congress I tried to get arrested, and succeeded. But it isn’t true that I bribed the cop. Toledo was wholly on the level, and there was nothing, de luxe about the manner of the roundup. Any one of the kids would just as soon have stuck a bayonet into me as any one of the other prisoners. In fact, I think that I presented the widest target in the entire suspect line. And since I brought up the rear of the forced march, I had a bayonet just to the right of me as well as one aimed directly at what might be called the small of my back. tt tt A Horrible Week I DID speak to both soldiers and tried to point out that honor and alacrity and everything else would be just as well satisfied if they would keep their blades a foot away instead of six inches. I have said that beauty must almost inevitably have in it some element of terror. There is no such thing as peaceful beauty. Well, a full Ohio moon shining on a bayonet gives a lovely light. After the first minute or so I gave up trying to convince anvbody that I was a newspaper man. It didn’t seem‘to help. At the very beginning, when a cordon was thrown around our little group which was watching the fire, I sought to walk out of custody by saying in a lordly manner, “I'm a newspaper man.” The young guardsman’s answer was to aim his bayonet at my abdomen and answer, “Get ba.dc there! ** For me this has been a swell week. I have gone through seven days in an almost continuous cold sweat of terror. Never again, I m afraid, will I be content to sit upon the peaceful shores of Hale Lake and fish for bullheads. This new sort of life has got me. I wonder what’s doing in Chicago. (Copyright, 1934, by The Times)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

ANEW flight into the stratosphere is to take place in June under the auspices of the National Geographic Society and the United States army air corps Major William E. Kepner, expert balloon pilot, and Captain Albert W. Stevens, well-known aerial photographer, will make the flight. The two army men will take off from a point somewhere in the western United States near the eastern edge of the Rocky mountains. Exact time of the flight will be determined by weather conditions, but it is hoped to make it as early in June as is possible. The balloon which the two fliers will use is five times the size of the one used last November by Commander Settle and Major Fordney in their successful flight into the stratosphere. It will be three and one-half times the size of the one used by the Russian scientists in September, 1933. Two and a third acres of cotton cloth have been required by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation of Akron, 0., to build the bag which will have a capacity of 3,000.000 cubic feet of gas. When on the ground, it will be about one-thirteenth filled with hydrogen gas. In this condition, the balloon will have the shape of a great inverted cone, 295 feet high. In other words, it will be as high as a twentysix story office building. As the balloon rises into the higher region of the atmosphere, the reduced atmospheric pressure will cause the gas in the balloon to expand. In the startosphere the balloon will assume a spherical shape. At that time it will have a diameter of 180 feet. It would be possible then to place within the balloon an eleven-story office building. a a a THE two fliers estimate that their balloon will drift 600 miles to the northeast, east or southeast in the course of their flight. That is why they have chosen to take off from the eastern edge of the Rockies. They are hoping to come down in open country, thus salvaging the bag for a future flight. These observations will include measurements of cosmic rays. In this connection, it is of interest to note that the Settle-Fordney flight did not end the argument over the nature of the rays. Dr. Compton is of the opinion that the observations made on that flight support the view that the rays consist largely of electrified particles. Dr. Millikan believes that the observations are in accord with the view that the rays are composed of photonsor quanta of energy’. a a a SCIENTIFIC observations to be made on the flight Include temperature and barometric readings from the start to the finish of the flight. In addition, a series of photographs will be made of the ground with a camera of fixed focal length mounted in the bottom of the gondola. It is expected that by comparing these photographs with maps it will be possible to construct altitude tables more accurate than any now in use. Air samples will be taken at various altitudes by means of special vacuum bottles. These samples will then be analyzed to determine the percentage of various atmospheric gases and water vapor. Electrical apparatus will measure the atmospheric electricity at various altitudes as well as the cosmic rays.

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FIVE YEARS BEHIND THE TIMES

Depression Leaves Its Mark on the Army Air Corps

BY GEORGE DAWS Times Special Writer THE depression and the enrorceG economy of recent years have left their mark on the United States army air corps. Training was sharply curtailed, carefully evolved plans were junked, procurement was reduced to a minimum and the corps buckled down to the man-sized job of "getting by,” rather than building the most efficient form of national defense and placing army aviation on the same plane of development as commercial aviation. But there Is also a question as to whether the sole reason that the army air corps is five years behind the program laid out by congress in 1926 is lack of money and whether better results might not have been obtained with the funds available. Persons sharply critical of war department policy—and they included many persons in service, interviewed during the ScrippsHoward survey of the nation’s aviation problem insisted that monejr alone would not have given the United States the best air force in the world. needed much more than that, they declared. / The job of transporting the air mail provided the air corps with its first real test since the World war. There had, of course, been war games, impressive crosscountry formation flights and spectacular, crowd-thrilling demonstrations at air meets. But the corps never had been handed the difficult job of flying planes from one point to another on schedule, fighting through storms and darkness, landing on strange fields and adapting itself quickly to new conditions and surroundings. n tt tt Eventual good will come from the experience. The corps was compelled to take inventory, to look at itself critically. It found weaknesses it did not previously realize existed. The corps welcomed the order to carry the mail in a spirit of jesting and confidence. On Feb. 14—less than a week before it began operation of the mail routes —Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of the air corps, discussed the advisability of a distinctive uniform for members of his corps while testifying before a house subcommittee. A number of his officers, he said, “wanted to know what is the uniform going to be in air mail work, whether they will carry a little whistle and a mail pouch on the side and a few other such items distinctive of air mail service.” There is today no more talk of little whistles ana mail pouches in the corps. It is concerned now with serious matters. Many of the accidents of army planes in mail service were due either to equipment, lack of pilot experience, inability of the pilot to go safely through bad storms or lack of judgment in attempting to get through impenetrable

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

WASHINGTON, June s.—Two prominent Englishmen, looking over the new deal independently of each other recently made identical criticisms. They were Sir Stafford Cripps, left wing labor leader, and John Maynard Keynes, famous economist. Both said that what the new deal needed was a plan. They felt it was wandering rudderless from one policy to another without rhyme or reason . . . Whether or not this is a valid criticism, it is being taken seriously by some of the President’s close advisers, especially a little group which argued with Keynes last week for several hours ... Asa result it is highly probable that this summer will see a little steering committee functioning at the President’s right hand to keep the new neal on a more even course. a a a a a a MRS. ANNA ELEANOR ROOSEVELT is as practical a First Lady as ver presided over the White House . . . But she has a deep sentimental streak . . . Only her intimate friends know why she is never without the thin gold chain around her neck, or what is on the end of it . . . The chain is a wedding gift from the President, and on it is attached a gold locket, bearing on one side the initials AER, and on the other FDR . . . The initialing is etched in diamonds.

Believe it or not, throughout the hour-and-a-half auto ride of General Hugh Johnson and Clarence Darrow by Johnsons invitation the subject of the NRA, or Darrow’s report on it, never once was touched on—not even remotely. . . Each man waited for the other to raise the question and neither did. . . The conversation got started on General

Grant, and by the time the visit was over had got down to Hannibal, The Census Bureau is not all dry statistics. Says Dr. Stuart A. Rice, assistant director: “To the average person the word ‘census’ suggests an individual, who, in the words of a high school essay, ‘goes around every ten years from house to house increasing the population.’ ” a a a DEMOCRATIC senatorial campaigns this year are no lallyda affairs. . . . Ohio’s Representative Charles V. Truax, who notes in his congressional directory biography that he has sold hogs to breeders in every state of the Union, and who is after the scalp of Senator Simeon D. Fess, recently refused to attend a dinner to which the latter also had been invited. . . . And Texas’ Senator Tom Connolly, who has the secret good wishes of the administration in his renomination duel with Young Joe Bailey, grandstanding first-term congressman, never refers to the latter, gives no indication that he considers him even in the race. . . . California’s able congresswoman, Florence Kahn, is totally immune from the traditional feminine fear of mice, but has an unreasoning dread of cats. .. . The senate committee investigating receivership and bankruptcy practices in federal courts has uncovered the amazing fact that in three California cities federal judges allowed fees totaling mere than $9,000,000 in a little over two years.

.. ...... • •’ . This Curtiss YO-408 is one of JHft prove. But that it was not nearly the few swift efficient observation n[ o&gm as efficient for routine aiiwavs planes in the Army Air Corps. operation as the commercial sets Much of its performance depends t h as been amply demonstrated, upon its radio equipment. Hk The arm:v continues to use the ■■ f relatively inferior tuned frequency ti |||jf§|§ sets which the commercial operaweather. The pilots, in short, tors have discarded in favor of the were inexperienced in bad- Be superheterodynes. The signal corps, weather it was not responsible for army radio, insists * tt ° If jaEPn this. The superhets, they say, economy in recent jraSHB are entirely too efficient, too sensiThe air corps unofficially sets 300 j&Bm * * * flying hours a year for tactical .. T n actual warfare the air above pilots and 160 hours for admin- IfjjjF HHmk the scene of operations would istrative pilots, an average of 250 ilp be crowded with signals. Virtually for the corps, as the amount B every branch of the army would needed to maintain efficiency. pi use radio for one purpose or The 1934 fiscal year appropria- another. There would be a jum-

This Curtiss YO-408 is one of the few swift efficient observation planes in the Army Air Corps. Much of its performance depends upon its radio equipment. weather. The pilots, in short, were inexperienced in badweather flying, but it was not their fault as individuals. n n u TT'NFORCED economy in recent years sharply cut all flying. The air corps unofficially sets 300 flying hours a year for tactical pilots and 160 hours for administrative pilots, an average of 250 for the corps, as the amount needed to maintain efficiency. The 1934 fiscal year appropriation forced reduction to an average of 180 hours. Then funds were cut again. The corps, of drawing on large stocks of gasoline purchased at the low 1933 prices, limited reductions somewhat. Again cuts were ordered, and anew schedule, ranging from 100 hours a year for administrative pilots up to 170 for pursuit pilots, was adopted. Some pilots flew less than two hours a week and then generally only in the daytime and with the sun shining. Air corps students at the army school receive only ten hours of blind flight instruction. They are expected to get experience by service flying, but army orders generally are for no take-offs unless skies are clear or clearing. Army men with ten or possibly thirty or forty hours of blind flying were assigned to take the places of commercial men who probably had from ten to fifty times that experience. That they succeeded as well as they did is to their credit. General Foulois told congress recently that “studies indicate

a a a WITH the termination of congress, Roosevelt faces some of this most important appointments since the early part of the administration. They are: a successor to Frank Walker, head of the super-cabinet; five members of the stock market board, and the members of the Wagner labor board—if the bill passes, and it looks as if it had a real chance. . . . Roosevelt is being urged to take his time with these and select surefire men. The jobs are too important to be rushed. . , . Incidentally, the successor to* Frank Walker may prove the key to the new "steering committee. . . . Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma brought congressional recognition to Miss Doris Stevens, the lady who was sentenced to sixty days for attempting to petition Woodrow Wilson for women’s suffrage. Recently Elmer inserted in the Congressional Record a six-year-old speech of Miss Stevens, delivered at the Havana conference. It took up four pages of small type at a cost to the government of $54 a page. a a a SUGAR is causing more pains and more crusty tempers to those in and out of the administration than almost any other commodity. . . . Individual sugar companies have been lobbying for bigger quotas within the United States. Island possessions have been sparring for bigger quotas from without the United States. Puerto Rico and Hawaii got the small end of the deal. . . The Philippines quota was fixed in a private conversation between Quezon and Roosevelt last winter and couldn’t be changed. The Cuban quota was fixed by Sumner Welles, former Am{>assador, and wouldn’t be changed’. Finally he gave away about as much of the Cuban quota as Mrs. Rainey puts in her coffee. (Six lumps.) Domestic sugar companies lobbying for bigger quotas have had

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1934

Major General Benjamin D. Foulois

that increased flying hours are a vital factor in the reduction of the aircraft accident rate and the number of fatal accidents.” o a a THE critics of the air corps insist that it is the system of training, the set-up of control and direction, that primarily is at fault. They point to the fact that the corps on Feb. I—more than two weeks before it took over operation of the air mail routes—had available within the continental limits of the United States radio equipment which cost approximately $900,000. The record shows that only $39,000 of this was labelled obsolete, leaving a balance of about $210,000 of equipment for use on the ground and $650,000 for use in planes. Radio equipment admittedly is expensive, but $900,000 worth of it would appear to be a sizeable investment. Whether that equipment is efficient for national defense only the experience of an emergency will

hard sledding. They used to lobby in congressional offices. But in this case, the agricultural crow'd runs the show and wouldn’t let the lobbyists within shouting distance. . . . Result: the lobbyists approached their congressmen, and their congressmen turned lobbyists. They flooded the halls of the AAA. . . . The weirdest incident of the sugar turmoil, however, was performed by Pat Harrison, wise-cracking senator from Mississippi. Not often does a senator say that he wants nothing for his constituents. . . . But Pat did. . . He told the AAA that he wanted no benefit payments for the molasses and syrup makers of Mississippi. There are about 198,000 small molasses-makers in Pat’s state. (Copyright, 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) McGuffeyites Plan Picnic Members of the McGuffey Club will hold a picnic in Brookside park Saturday, it was announced today. Twenty popular songs prepared in booklet form will be sung at the outing. A pilgrimage to the McGuffey home at Oxford, 0., June 16, also was announced.

SIDE GLANCES

“I can’t help worrying about Willie; he always catches cold when he goes out in the rain.like this.”

prove. But that it was not nearly as efficient for routine airways operation as the commercial sets has been amply demonstrated. The army continues to use the relatively inferior tuned frequency sets which the commercial operators have discarded in favor of the superheterodynes. The signal corps, responsible for army radio, insists that there is a good reason for this. The superhets, they say, are entirely too efficient, too sensitive ior military service. tt tt IN actual warfare the air above the scene of operations would be crowded with signals. Virtually every branch of the army would use radio for one purpose or another. There would be a jum-

bling of signals and resultant confusion if all had efficient, sensitive sets, the signal corps argues. But, a spokesman added, and perhaps significantly, “we are now considering the use of superhets.” Many army planes have transmitters that send voice signals only thirty-five miles. They are adequate for interplane work to the formation commander can flash orders to his fellow pilots, or for relaying information back of the lines to the artillery. But they are not of great value to a pilot fighting his way through a storm in communicating with a distant airport at which he hopes to land. The army pioneered much of the aviation radio development, but the commercial men, either because of greater need or more adequate finances, have taken the lead in adapting and using these devices. The problem of landing a plane on a strange field either at night or without visibility has occupied aviation experts for years. Tech-

TODAY and TOMORROW u u a a a By Walter Lippmann

EVEN though there has been some rain in the last few days the most reliable opinion appears to be that the drought is so severe that nothing can now prevent a very serious crop failure in the middle and far west.

a a a FOR the people affected it is a disaster which they are quite clearly unable to meet with their own resources. They are stricken by a natural catastrophe after years of impoverishment due to the world depression. There will, therefore, be no question as to their need or as to the duty of the federal government to provide relief. Fortunately, the government is organized, as it has never been before, to act promptly, intelligently and adequately. But while no one will grudge relief in the emergency, the question is bound to be raised in many minds as to how far the government can and should go in as-

By George Clark

nicians of the air corps, headed by Captain Albert P. Hegenberger, solved the problem in May, 1932, by developing a system that was not only almost foolproof but comparatively inexpensive. a tt THIS system permitted a pilot anywhere within fifty miles of a field to be guided directly to that field, told the true altitude of the ground—the airplane altimeter registers feet above sea level rather than the actual distance of the plane from the earth —and brought down to a safe landing on the center of the runway. The cost of the three necessary transmitting stations, so light and portable each may be carried in a motorcycle side-car, was * only $3,000, including three small automobiles. The cost of equipping each plane was only about $750. The system was virtually perfect. One plane, now five years old, has been used in hundreds of blind landings at Wright Field, Dayton, 0., and has never had a tire blown. Yet when the army took over the air mail job, eighteen months later, only a score or so of its pilots knew how to land by this system. Only about three weeks is required for training. Expenditure of a maximum of $105,000 would have put this equipment on ten airports and in 100 airplanes. THE Baker board, now studying the problem of the air corps, was asked by Secretary of War Dern to consider among other things the question of whether the corps had adequate equipment and whether the pilots were properly trained. Search of the official files probably will reveal that requests were made for funds for installation of this system shortly after the army was ordered to carry the mail. But whether the delay was justified the army now is going full speed ahead. An announcement a few weeks ago told how army pilots were to be taught a blind landing system and that seven fields were to be equipped. The announcement, however, did not mention that the system was almost two years old, and that only a score or so of men had been trained in that period. Signal corps denies the charge of its critics that a multitude of red tape causes delay in the procurement of equipment, including radio. However, the critics insist that an official signal corps chart lists eighteen to twenty-one “Steps for Adoption of Standard Procurement,” and that this routine wastes weeks and months of valuable time. Every study or investigation of the air corps resolves into one major question: “Is the corps ready to defeat an enemy air force that might attack this country?” /An account of the answer to this question by a ranking officer of the army and by unofficial but expert observers will be published tomorrow.

suming the burdens caused by natural and by man-made calamities. The traditional view is, of course, that farmers must take the weather as it comes; relying not at all upon government devices, they become the self-reliant, independent stock from which the nation renews its vitality. In this view a paternalistic policy for the farmer is undesirable, not so much because it costs money, but because it softens him as an individual. a a a / T V HERE are few persons who would not feel that while there is something in this view, it is infected with a kind cf moral blindness. Is the modern American farmer the same kind of farmer around whom there has grown the ideal of complete self-reliance? The traditional view is an ancient one based upon the experience of farmers working their-own land for their own needs and for a neighboring community. But the wheat farmer in the Dakotas and Kansas and Nebraska does not live that kind- of life. He produces for a world market and he supplies his own needs out of a world market. He is no longer even approximately selfsufficient. Can he then be expected to be wholly self-reliant? In earlier days, if his crop was bad, he suffered and accepted his lot. But today, if his crop is bad, his competitor in another region makes a big profit. In earlier days, because he supplied his principal needs at home or in the neighborhood, his standard of life was relatively independent of the consequences of political and economic policies. Today his real income fluctuates spectacularly, due to causes which he can not controf by his own prudence, thrift or industry. These are the underlying reasons why we now recognize that to protect the farmer against great natural calamities or economic convulsions is a social duty. If he is to be self-reliant, he must be more or less self-sufficient; insofar as he is not, he must either be led back to self-sufficiency or insured against those forces of nature and of society which selfreliance alone can not deal with. (Copyright, 1934)

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Fdir Enough min WASHINGTON, June 5. ambassador, Mr. Bullitt, wants to introduce the game of baseball to the Russians, and it says in the paper that he intends to do so, it will be a middling-poor version which will be presented by the four scrub teams which he plans to select from the American residents of Moscow. Most Americans think they can play ball and a majority do have a fine appreciation of the game as played by the professional experts, but there are not many, even at home, who can translate their appreciation into performance. Even though the four Moscow ball clubs be composed of former varsity athletes they still are not likely to give their Russian friends much more than

a clew. The best of the college teams bears about the same resemblance to the humblest of the major league firms, which would be the Cincinnati Reds, on a particularly punk day, that a pig bears to a thoroughbred horse and, anyway, the actual demonstration of the athletes on the sward is only the germ of the big idea of the so-called national pastime of the United States of America. a at A National Pastime? I WILL make a little stipulation here that baseball is

the national pastime only in an old newspaper phrase which could be challenged down any day by any body who wished to go to the trouble on behalf of golf and craps, which are co-ed games, so to speak, and enjoy practical familiarity with a far greater number of addicts. Golf, however, still is something of an affection with Americans, though more of them play golf, or at it, than play baseball or anything like it. Therefore, golf can not be advocated with complete sincerity as a game more American than baseball. It might even die out in time, notwithstanding an investment in golfing property and a trade in the instruments and trappings of golf, which far exceeds the financial importance of Abner Doubleday’s gift to western civilization. However, the game that is played on any army blanket, a parlor rug or any other square yard of smooth surface with a pair of dice, turns over more money than baseball, is played and appreciated by more Americans and is as American as the household machine gun. Baseball requires formal conditions and a meeting of the minds and convenience of at least eighteen males in reasonably fit physical condition and a large expanse of flat acreage. This is a rare combination even in a large land whose occupants lately have been receiving formal instructions in the development of hobbies to occupy them in their new leisure. But, as a custom, baseball seems to suggest this country in other lands just as the bathtub suggests the typical life in England and no more correctly. tt o it Must Have a Crowd MR. BULLITT ought to recognize that baseball is composed of other ingredients than the mere ball game. It requires attendance, turnstiles, frankfurters, beer, popcorn, iced hair-dyes and depilatories in assorted colors (which probably would make the Russians, accustomed to their vodka, very ill) heroism, muckerism, democracy and autocratic power and illusion. The Russians are unsophisticated—and American sportsmanship as presented in a typical American ball game would mystify them until they caught the hang of it. They would be told, first of all, that the good American sportsman loses with a brave smile and then would be asked to understand when a ball player, who has been called out on a close decision, is deemed to be playing the game as he bellers and kicks up dirt and calls the umpire opprobrious names. They would be told all about the czar system in • baseball, and Mr. Bullitt would have to get over to them, somehow, the code of exceptions which sometimes permits a czar to shed his imperial blue jacket in a runway under the grandstand and fall to punching with a rebellious serf who didn’t like the way he called that fast one, high, inside. The Russians are expected to hold the bridge for this country for the first year or so of the next war. And, that being so, and the cost of war being so great that a few million dollars can not possibly matter, it would be cheap at twice the price to familiarize the Russians with the United States by showing them baseball as baseball really is. (Copyriant. 1934 by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —BY UR. MORRIS FISHBEIN'

CHIEF factors of a healthful vacation can be listed as follows: First, change of occupation; second, sunshine and the open air; third, plenty of rest at night and during the day; fourth, congenial friends and surroundings; fifth, freedom from social routine. This, for instance, was the type of vacation long taken by Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs—all noted for hard work, success, and long lives. These representative notables used to travel about in a motor car, camping at night in the woods or in some convenient place. They were with congenial people who were not included in their usual environment. They had interest in conversation different from that of their daily lives. They spent much time in the sunshine and in the open air. tt tt tt THEY went to oed early at night and arose when they wished in the morning. They were not governed by any routine on their vacation. They did not have to dress for meals or for the evening, but wore the most comfortable and roughest clothing that they had. Their vacations have become proverbial as representing the best type. Your vacation always should be selected according to your build and your state of health. The real vacation for the average city dweller is one in which he can have comforts suitable to the condition of his body. For a real rest a real bed with a real mattress is a help to weary limbs. A hot bath with a rubdown by trained hands helps to soothe the tired muscles. INSTEAD of these surroundings, many a worker who has had fifty weeks of office routine tries mountain climbing or thirty-six holes of golf daily, putting terrific stress on his blood vessels and his heart. Thereafter, instead of sleeping in a comfortable bed, he finds a strange bed with a mattress concocted from cotton, straw, or corncobs. Then he wonders why his back and his thighs hurt so much when he gets up the next morning. Under such circumstances, there is no place like home!

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DURING the last thirty days I have received, and each and every member must have received, hundreds of letters ard telegrams from misled business men telling us that this (stock market regulation) legislation will be detrimental to the best interest of the nation. I say to these business men that they are misled. This legislation will restore confidence, will not injure legitimate business, and all it will do is restrict the gambling activities of a small group of men who have no interest in the welfare of the nation, but who, regardless of the effect everybody knew it would have upon conditions of the country, ruthlessly manipulated the markets. Sabath (Dem., 111.).

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