Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1934 — Page 9

JUNE 2fi, 1934

It Seems to Me HEYWoST BROUN ‘t'OL'R or five yearn ago I was psychoanalyzed. I got by with about C plus. .Some part of my crotrhe'3 disappeared, but other inhibitions continued to cling i.ke limpets to a veteran rock. Before the man likened to mv conversations I was afraid of op*n places, rio-ed places, high places, f ghta, the opposite <-ex. fco’bsll games, railroad trains. ar.d ob'cene words. At the end of one year's treatment I was able to take locals to Stamford. - Conn., and curse gently. The doctor said that perhaps we had gone as : far as possible. He hoped that in course of time certain additional easements might accrue as belated benefits of the analysis. He spoke profoundly and he said a mouthful. For sixteen or seventeen , months things went on about as usual then on one conspicuou !y Jovful night I shocked two old ladies

at a dinner party by singing all the versus of Hinkoy-Dinkey-Parlcz-Vous. Never had 1 sung in public ar.d some of ‘hr soldier idiom winch I shouted aloud w ould have caused me to run blushing from ihe room only a few years before. It was not wine, but the tormuia of Dr. Freud, which had leased my lips. The Ice had begun to break and the river was able to seek its natural channel. After a hearty breakfast I went to a saloon and sat around for several hours with some chance companions saying, “If you’ve heard this one don't stop me.”

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From the saloon I went straight to the Grand Central station and bought a ticket for Los Angelos. As brave as a lion I boarded a train and went all by myself from coast to coast. While going over the Rockier I r-’ood on the ba k platform and gazed delighted!'.' do’’n into ravines and gulleys thousands of fret below. My fear of hich places was gone. • a tt a H fco’n Afraid af the ('<tp? \T the depot I tried to pick up a young girl who - was standing by the information booth. She called a policeman Dut I managed to escape in a taxicab. I had last my sense of embarrassment in the presence of the opposite sex. My fear of the policeman. I feel, was entirely rational. Later I took a tramping tiip aerass the great American dc’ert In order to snap my fingers at the open spaces By now I was practically cured and could go back to prize tights and football games and throw’ ui a few airplanes and a little riot duty as good men ure. Os course the analyst had done the job. but the immediate sign and signal of recovery was the singing of the rowdy song which shocked the two old laches and made me well again. Os cruise my attitude was selfish. I felt that it was better for two old ladies to be shocked than that I should suffer much. I still think so and this column is not a case history but a plea against the current campaign to clean up the motion pictures. It neier has seemed to me that in its current commercial products Hollywood ever has gone as far as could be hoped, but I must pay ihe picture magnates the compliment of admitting that in recent \cars they have gone a long way in pushing our national inhibitions. While the stace has slumbered and gone increi sy, the screen has boldly ventuied ahead. Today it is much safer to take your Aunt Caroline to a Broadway revue than to expose her to the risk o! something fresh from California or Astoria studios. 1 think that the death of all creative effort in the arts is the endeavor to make them safe for Aunt Caroline. a a a Make 'Em Worse! BUT I speak not only as one interested in academic aesthetics. The best art is the best propaganda and we stand in utal need of a campaign to make our country sex-conscious. The industrial age with its accompanying economic and political experiments has done much to dim many ancient instincts. No kmger docs the traveling salesman, once celebrated in many anecdotes, come to a farmer s house at sundown. On the contrary, he goes to Moscow and proceeds to discuss the second five-year p!an and the merits of collectivism. Naturally. I would not have mankind blind or indifferent to the problems of planned production, but if we are to talk only of wheat and steel and manganese and spend all our energetic thought upon labor saving devices the race will dwindle. I do not flunk the modern world is too small to contain both Stalin and Mae West. I think the modern man nueht to be interested in what each has to offer. Ini for ribaldry and rowdiness. There ,s no health in the doctrine of suppression. I'm for bigeer. better and bawdier pictures. iCopvrs.V. 1934. bv The TlmrM

Your Health -|i\ l>K. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

SUMMER weather should put you on your guard against contaminated food. Food spoils easily in hot weather, and you can prevent such spoilage, to a great extent, by proper refrigeration. Given a combination of warmth and moisture, germs and molds will grow on food. The summertime. therefore, provides ideal conditions for germ development, unless you take all precautions against it. The most serious germs that are spread through foods are that produce typhoid, dysentery, and other conditions attacking the digestive tract. Even proper refneeration of food is not an adequate protection against tvphoid fever. Contamination of food by infected food handlers is primarily responsible m spreading typhoid, paratyhoid, and dysentery. nun \/e\V simple rules will help the housewife to protect her family against food spoilage and food contamination during the summertime. The first is cleanliness. The food handler should wash her hands thoroughly with soap and water before handling foods and particularly after leaving a lavatory. The dishes in which foods are kept should always be scrupulously clean, but particularly so in summer. In fact, dishes, poss. and pans or vessels of any kind should be washed just before the food is put into them. Food in cans probably is safer in the original can than when poured into a dish that has r.ot been properly cleaned. a a a PUBLIC health officials are supposed to protect the public against contaminated milk and water. However, many persons fail to retard the warning notices that, are issued, and drink water from unprotected springs or even from rivers and brooks. Milk that has been properly pasteurized and water from sources approved by boards of health can be considered safe. Ail foods to be used during the summer should be kept :n a refrigerator at a temperature below 50 degrees. This applies particularly to milk, meats, custards, sea food, and leftovers, which are the foods most likely to be comaminated. Dur.r._ the summertime, if anv two or three members of the family become ill after a meal, medical advice hrHd b' obtained immediately. Furthermore. the doctor when called, should notify the health departmer’. so tha* the source of the disturbance may be definitely determined.

Questions and Answers

Q—When is the main tourist season in Yellowstone national park? A—From June 14 to Sept. 13. during which time all the park utilities are operated. Between June 1 ar.d 14 and Sept. 13 and Oct. 15 limited accommodat.ons of an informal nature are available at certain places m the park for motorists. Q—At what ace does the training of lions and tigers usually begin, and hew long do they live? A—Usually tranir.g begins when they are about 3 Or 4 >rars old. Thev attain maturity at 5. and the average span of life a about nineteen years.

HOLLYWOOD HANGS ON THE ROPES

Battering Ram of Public Opinion Beats Fear Into Producers

BV DAN THOMAS NFA Sertir* Staff Crrri>nnt*nt HOLLYWOOD, June 26.—“ We are making the kind of plctures the public wants.” As far bark as I can remember, such statements have been coming from motion picture executives. But the rising tide of criticism against the type of pictures we have today seems to prove that these executives either have misinterpreted the actual desires of the movie-going public or have ignored the feelings of an increasing army of sane-thinking customers. Their eyes g:ued on box office receipts, the executives felt that the movie theater patrons approved the polyglot pictures the producers chosa to give the world. But now those same box office receipts, dwindling fast despite such “popular” pictures, are enough to prove to the executives that they were wrong. Up to the present time, the attempt to satisfy public desires has gone no further than meaningless statements. To put it very bluntly,* the film industry's product has consisted of pictures which a flock of self-satisfied executives have wanted to give the public.

Except in rare instances they haven't even attempted to find out what the public wanted. Firmly entrenched behind carved mahogany desks, they have been the know-it-alls to whom the United States was just so much waste territory. Only the fact that it took four days to reach New York by train made them aware of the 3.000 miles between the two cities. Not once have they considered the 110,000.000 persons in the vast area outside of New York and Los Angeles who for years have been paying their tremendous salaries. a a a NOW. after making empty statements for years, the film producers are about to act upon them. They're going to make the kind of pictures the public wants. For several years a quiet battle has been raging between the public and the film moguls. During the last few months this fight has come out Into the open and has grown considerably in size. Asa result, the movie heads have admitted defeat. In the future the public can dictate what kind of pictures it wants and get them. Studio executives are ready to promise to throw’ every bit of filth off the screen. In fact, they’re ready to promise almost anything to get people back into their theaters. a a a THE industry’s own censor board, comprised of Joseph I. Breen. Dr. James Wingate and Geoffrey Shurlock, has become

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, June 26.—The chief efforts of the administration during the next few months are going to be in the farm belt, This is the reason Rex Tugweli. ne\V undersecretary of agriculture, Is off on i. long swing through the corn and wheat belts. . All political dope coming from these areas indicates that the New Deal has lost ground. li\ the industrial East it has not. . . Also both Wallace and Tugweli frel that they have not sold their program properly to the farmer. This talk about "professional theorists” running farm policy, bothers them. . . They think that if the farmers understood what these "theorists” were trying to do, all would be happier. . . Asa result, Henry Wallace just has returned from one sales trip, Tugweli now starts on another. . . Frank B. Kellogg, ex-secretary of state, is one man who heartily approves of the senate munitions investigation. He has sent the committee some indications of how his attempts as peacemaker were upset by munitions profiteers. This week is the first time since 1928 that White House has not echoed to the patter of baby feet. All during the Hoover administration. his grandchildren were with him. Then came Sistie and Buzzie,

the Roosevelt grandchildren. Now that Mrs. Dali has gone west, White House corridors are strand and silent again—silent as during the thirty-five-year stretch back to the days of Grover Cleveland. Between him and Hoover the White House was without small children. McKinley, Taft and Harding had no children. Teddy Roosevelt's children all were beyond the baby age. So were Wilson's and Coolidge's. Richard Cleveland, youngest son of Grover, w*as born in the White House. ana THE man who is going to get the new sugar homesteading plan started in Puerto Rico is S. J. Weaver of the AAA, wi;o once told a congressional committee that the administration's sugar bill was intended to wipe out the beet sugar industry of the west... No matter what the military affairs committee may say about General Foulois, chief of the air corps, you can't forget that while his brother officers were poohpnohine the idea of flying, he stuck b ,v his dream. For fourteen months he was the only flying officer in the United States army. He enlisted as a private. Is one of the rapidly disappearing generals not a West Pointer. (And how they are hated by the West Pointers!).: Congr: :ional radio listeners have discovered that Hitler misses no tricks when it comes to propaganda. About ten each night a correct Harvard accent tunes in from Berlin with a program addressed to •Our dealt friends in North America.” nan TWO bills probably will go down m the history of the seventy-third congress as being most misunderstood—the stock market bill and' he Tucwell bill regulating the sale of food and drugs—which didn't pass. ... A lot of senators got letters asking them not to vote for the Tugwell bill because if it passed they "would not be able to buy aspirin.” . . . Regarding the stock market bill, one lady wrote to a senator asking him please to vote against it. because I have all my money in Postal Savings, and the banker tells me that if the stock market bill passes I’ll lose every cent.” .... Secretary Ickes. replying to a newspaper man trying to trick him into a dangerous ’You dig a pit for mv unwary feet" . . . Manley Hudson, Harvard professor of international law. has been trying to angle in on the munitions investigation, but so far has received no encouragement. ana THE League of Decency, recently organized to crusade against immoral movies, has served notice on President Roosevelt that it plans to turn its attention to official Washington. The capital, it informed the? President. must be cleared of public officials who subject themselves to too constant companionship

tremendously active during recent. months. Although some objectionable films still reach the theaters, they aren't one-half as bad "as they were before being viewed by this censor board. Ever since the formation of the Will Hays organization, producers theoretically have had to abide by its decisions. However, this plan worked in theory only, Hays made suggestions and the producers followed them or not, as they pleased. Now the Hays organization, of which Breen, Wingate and Shurlock are a part, gives orders and they are obeyed. If the censor board says a certain scene must come out of a picture, it comes out. a a a NEEDLESS to say, even more drastic censorship must be imposed upon the movie makers. If they don't do it themselves, it will be done by outsiders. This has become apparent during the last few weeks. And the film industry, in order to avoid federal and state censorship, if that can be done at this late date, is prepared to accept the strictest kind of censoring from its own members. One might wonder why, after doing things in their own way for so many years, studio executives finally are ready to do whatever the public desires. The answer is the unified movement of religious organizations to clean up the movies. Such a combination is one the movie industry

with their secretaries. . . . The communication stirred a hilarious -uproar in the clerical offices ofr the White House. . . . Venerable Supreme Court Louis D. Brandels believes that present day college life is too luxurious, that too much money is spent on students. In response to a query from the Yale Daily News, Brandcis wrote: “Judging from the universities I have visited, I think that, most undergraduates learn to live too luxuriously in college. There are so many people in dire need that it seems a shame to waste so much on college students.” ana TJ EGINNING July 1, weather forecasting is due for a marked improvement. At least that is the hope of the United States Weather Bureau. On that date the bureau begins a wider utilization of airplanes for up-per-air soundings. Army, navy, and commerce department aviation equipment in all parts of the country will be used daily . . . When it comes to picking congressional adjournment dates, Senate Minority Floor Leader Charley McNary knows his business. As early as last May he prophesied that congress would not disband until after the middle of June . . . The closing hours of the abortive senate adjournment were hectic and turbulent, bu\, not Tor Pennsylvania’s squat senator • Puddler Jim> Davis . . . Dcspitd the din and turmoil he went sound asleep , . . McNary, sitting alongside, tried to awaken him by tickling his chin with a pencil. When that had no effect he shook Davis briskly . . . Trouble seems to agree with General Hugh Johnson . . . The florid-faced ex-cavalry officer has put on considerable weight in the last three months, has had to buy larger suits. The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce was the real author of the anti-union amendments which senate Republicans tried to shove into the President's labor bill. The chamber also was fronting for the steel industry with which the motor moguls are closely allied . . . Red-headed novelist Sinclair Lewis and Professor Rex Tugwell are old friends, but the former's brand of entertainment is too strenuous for the No. 1 Brain Truster . . . Lewis put in a few days in Washington to "look over the show,” spent considerable time with Tugwell. Finally exhausted by the author's pace, Tugwell appealed to a mutual friend to take Lewis oil his hands . . . Massive George Peek, foreign trade “adviser” to the President, says the administration’s policy in this field is comparable to the remark made by an old man to his balky horse: “Get up. do more with your feet and less with your head.” tCopvnght. 1914 bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

THE TNDTANAPOTJS TTJfES

can’t buck, and the heads of the business admit it. There isn’t the slightest doubt today but that we are due for an era of clean, wholesome pictures. The only question is by whom these films will be made. If our current executives don’t fall in line very rapidly, they will be replaced with other executves who will make pictures the public wants. The film moguls have had their inning—now it’s the public’s turn. Next—Dan Thomas sees crusade for a screen cleanup extending to the private lives of famous stars.

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Charges of indecency leveled at Hollywood are due not so much to the scanty attire of chorus beauties as to the insinuation of moral breaches under the guise of “sophisticated entertainment.”

ODD FELLOWS WILL GREET ORDER'S CHIEF James H. Davis to Speak at Columbia Club. The Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Indiana, will hold a banquet at 6 tonight, at the Columbia Club in honor of James H. Davis, Tacoma, Wash., Grand Sire of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the World and a native Hoosier. A gathering of members from over the state will hear Grand Sire ! Davis give an address in the grand i lodge auditorium, Odd Fellows building, at 7:30 p. m. George W. j Freeman, Kokomo, grand master of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, will j preside, and the reception com- i is in charge of George P. j Bornwasser, grand secretary. SOARS 155 MILES IN MOTORLESS PLANE Young Du Pont Shatters Record; j Tries Again. K\t T'nltrd Press ELMIRA. N. Y„ June 26.—Dissatisfied with lijs feat of breaking the world's record for, sustained glider flight by almost twenty miles', Richard C. Du Pont planned to .take off in his motorless plane again today in an effort to establish a record that would stand for a long time. Du Pont soared 155 miles over Allegheny mountain ridges from Elmira to Somerset Hills <N. J.) airport yesteraay, bettering the record of 136 miles set in Germany in 1931 by Guenther Groenhoff. Du Pont is the son of Felix Du Pont of Wilmington. Del. One Killed, Three Hurl in Crash WARSAW, Ind., June 26—One person was killed and three were injured late yesterday in an automobile accident ten miles north of here. Mrs. Fred Workman, 60, died a few minutes after the crash.

SIDE GLANCES

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"Certainly, I’m dressed better than any woman here; but * this crowd is so stupid they don’t even know it*”

I Left—A bevy of chorines strike a fetching pose in | a recent tune-film. Above—Carole Lombard and Randolph Scott in a I sizzling love scene closeup.

TODAY AND TOMORROW a a a a a a By Walter Lippmann

THREE years ago the breakdown of war debus and of German international payments was followed by a world-wide financial panic which swept Britain off the gold standard and set in a motion of superdeflation in the United States. We have now witnessed a geperal default on the war debts and a suspension of transfers by Germany on obligations which she continued to meet during the crisis of three years ago. In all modern history there has not been a combination of events so destructive of confidence in international credit. Yet for a number of reasons the effects in the United States are not likely to be so serious as they were in the summer of 1931. For one thing, these defaults have been discounted. They do not come as a sudden surprise. For another, the American banking structure is in Immeasurably better condition. i

But above all, our own adoption of a managed currency has in very considerable degree insulated the American economy against the impact of the European deflation. Nevertheless we are a part of the world economy and complete insulation is impossible. a a WHAT is going on in Europe must for the time being mean less world trade and therefore a reduced demand for those American products which enterj into world trade. It is only prudent to recognize that the promise of a revival of world trade has received a setback. This does not mean that one must give up hope of improving it by reducing the barriers. But it does mean that the improvement will at best be slow unless there is a radical turn for the better in the European political and financial position. That being the case, it is more than ever important to take measures to assist the revival of business within the United States. For full prosperity we undoubtedy need a large revival of exports. But very much more orosperit.y than we now have is attainable by measures that are entirely within our own control. a a a IT is generally understood now that the focus of the depression, apart from exports, is in the

By George Clark

construction industries. They account directly for the largest amount of unemployment. There is little doubt, therefore, that to revive construction is the most important thing that can be done to promote general recovery. If we look at the situation broadly, what do we find out? We find, do we not, a very large possible demand for new construction and for replacement. There may be too many highpriced apartments and too many skyscrapers in some cities, but taking the country as a whole there is clearly a deficiency of satisfactory, moderate and inexpensive housing. , a a a The answer is obvious. Construction ,is too expensive. A wage earner or a salaried man wanting anew house has not enough income to pay the rent or meet the mortgage and the contractors’ charges. His income iS generally considerably lower than it was in 1929. But rent, interest, building materials and building wages are very little lower than they were in 1929. If there is to be more building, the cost of building has to come down until incomes have increased. Specifically, that means that the ! price of materials needs to be reI ciuced if more of them are to be I sold, that the price of money has | to be reduoed if more of it is to | be Porrowed, that the unit rate ! of wages has, to be reduced if 1 there is to be more employment. The question is whether producers of materials, lenders on i mortgages and workers in the construction industry can all be convinced at the same time that by accepting a lower nominal rate they will improve their actual income. The problem is to bring together producers, workers and leaders into a kind of pact or treaty for their common advantage. To the producers of raw materials the argument for reduction would be that a greater volume of business at lower price would mean larger profits. To the lenders the primary argument would be that a mortgage at a lower rate of interest when that means that the borrower is solvent, is safer than a high rate. It is also more profitable than letting money stand id.e. a a a TO the wage earner the argument would be that a high rate of wages for little or no work means much less money than a lower rate for more work. If he has two days’ work at sls, he earns S3O a week. If he had five days work at sl2 he would double his income. y To make this convincing it ought to be possible to work out a scheme by which the weekly earnings of labor would rise faster than the hourly rate was reduced. Thus labor costs would fall while the income of labor rose. There are intimations from Washington that the administration is working along these lines. If they are correct, it is ail to the good.

Fdir Enough WESTBROOK Mil 'T'WO groat Americans are currently engaged in X writing their memoirs. Mr. Max Baer is composing his under the title or “Mv Life and My Loves” and Is doing remarkably well as to speed and wordage for a young man who boasts, among other things, that he never did spend much time in school. Mr. Samuel Instill, the leading candidate for the title of sweetest old man that ever lived, announces that he is writing his life story because he needs

the money. He does not say what money, but presumably means Just any money. Mr. Insull never was very choosey about money and the same wide range of people who were allowed to invest in his promotions doubtless will be permitted to buy his book. This would prove that Mr. Insull bears them no hard feelings. Hr seems willing to let bygones be bygones. The announcement dors not give the title of Mr. Insull's autobiography but that is a small matter. The title ran come later and. for the time being, the sweet old gentleman

who ma?! the’honest mistakes can muddle along with a mere working-title, as authors often do. "Excuse It. Please,” might do for a temporary name or, to borrow’ one from an old popular song, “What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry!” Much of Mr. Insull's work doubtless will have to do with technical matters of finance so intricate as to baffle the ordinary reader just as his operations baffled his ordinary investors. Therefore, the book should concern itself quite liberally with incidents of the kind which are known in the writing business as “human-interest” or H-I. Mr, Insull Is crowded with H-I. From the position of a great power, the author now is reduced‘to a pension of sls a week from his son. But so shrewd a financier is he that he was able to spend a year in Greece, hire eminent international council, pav the legal expense of an extradition proceeding and, finally, charter an ocean steamship on sls a week. a a a Steamships Are Expensive THE ordinary reader of Mr. Insull's life story might find it hard to pay the rent and grocery bill on sls a week, so a chapter on economical management would be fascinating. Now that he is back home and has dismissed his ocean steamship, Mr. Insull doubtless is able to save something out of his pension. The steamship, complete with her crew, fuel, provisions, and all, must have cost at least $9 a week, leaving him only $6 a week for his cable tolls, tips, taxes and legal fees. But then, Mr. Insull is a genius in bis line and perhaps lie was able to make a bargain for his ocean steamship. Perhaps he got it for $6 a week. A man never knows w’hat he can do on sls a week until he really tries to economize on the little things like steamship hire. It would be unethical to try to anticipate Mr. Insull's story which he is writing lor the money—any money—that is in it for him. But Jin an entirely helpful spirit one may suggest to a noviceauthor that there would be great interest in a chapter explaining how and when he came to love newspaper reporters as he does today. In his other years, the sweetest old man was a very difficult subject to approach and the journalists of Chicago formed a mistaken impression that he did not like them. tt tt tt You're Breaking Mg Heart! BUT since his arrival baik in Chicago to explain honest mistakes in court he has been very pleasant to the newspaper boys whose writings about him might affect the publics attitude. Mr. Insull not only has become a reporter-lover but, most remarkable of all, has been genial to the photographers. With an innocent conscience and only honest mistakes on his record. Mr. insull has nothing to fear from public opinion, so he can not be suspected of ulterior motives in presenting a kindly face to tho press. That Is what makes his change of demeanor so mysterious. An explanation might help to sell the book. In years gone by, the journalists dreaded to be assigned to Mr. Insull because he hurt their feelings. Nowadays they dread to see him because he breaks their hearts. (Copyright! 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

OSCILLATING “centers of action,’’ shifting back and forth over the earth's surface in keeping with changes in the sun’s output of heat, control the earth’s weather. Once the movements of these centers are accurately known, long-range weather forecasting will be a simple matter. • That is the thesis of H. Helm Clayton,, editor of the World Weather Records, published -annually by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington. Mr. Clavton sets forth his views in a paper just prepared for the institution on “World Weather and Solar Activity.” ■ Mr. Clayton points out that if our earth had no atmosphere, the temperature of the earth would follow the sun’s output of heat in a very simple wav’. The hotter the sun became the hotter • the earth would become. . . . But the earth is not a body like the moon which possesses neither air nor water. The earth has an atmosphere and oceans. The effect of these must be taken into consideration. Measurements of solar radiation made over a long period of years from the mountain-top observatory of the Smithsonian Institution indicate that as sun spots increase from minimum to maximum, the sun grows slightly hotter. This fact is well in accord with what might be expected. Stir up a furnace and it grows hotter. Undoubtedly the increase in sun spots Is evidence of some activity within the lower depths of the sun. a a a HOWEVER, while the sun grows hotter as sun spots increase, the temperature of certain parts of the world grows lower. The work of both Simpson. the well-known British meteorologist, and Clayton, show that a moderate increase in solar radiation brings a decrease in the average temperature of a considerable portion of the American continent, "This is ,not quite so paradoxical as it might seem,” Mr. Clayton says. “The temperature of the earth as a whole depends on the amount of heat received fre-m the sun. but the temperature of any given spot at any given time does not depend directly upon the sun’s radiation but upon where the air is coming from as well as upon the cloudiness prevailing ” From his analysis of the .weather map of the woHd over a long period of years. Mr. Clayton has located certain areas where changes in pressure, temperature and rainfall are most intense. It Is ■from these areas, he says, that the “highs” and “lows” move out. They are like meteorological railroad Junctions, he says, from which are dispatched the trains carrying the hot air and cold air, the ram and fair Weather for adjacent territories. For this reason, he calls them “centers of action.” • a a a IT Is this shifting of the renters of the action which cause the complexity of the weather picture. One year, for example, the middle Atlantic states are affected in a certain way by the combined influence! of several fields of action. The next year, shifts in the position of these centers cause another weather picture to develop. Mr. Clayton’s important contribution to an understanding of the situation is his contention that the shift of these centers of action depends upon changes in the sun's radiation. Wnen the sun grows hotter, there is a tendency for the nprthern hemisphere to grow cooier, he says. This is because the tendency of a hotter sun is to shift northward the northern high pressure areas and to increase their intensities. This causes these areas to have more of a push in sendulg cold air southward.

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