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HkemioMe HEVHfIiBMJN ST' .IFORD. Conn . July R. Douglas Gilbert in an interview with Hannen Staffer refers to that and stirutulshed journalist as “the good, gtav Broun f Britain." I never have met Mr. Hannen Swaffer so at this diMane* it is not for me to say which of - is ’he injured partv. but leaving Swaffer entirely nut of it I grow restive at the growing readiness of fellow newspaper men to treat me as an ancient. The fault is partly my own. Only a few days '• v*o I wrote a column in celebration of my twentyfi f th anniversary in journalism. And that was a lie. it was really my twenty-sixth. But at the start I was only a stripling. And at the end of the ummer I will be a stripling again if the heat wave and my rubber shirt hold out. These few breathless fnr*graphs arP written immediately after a 144-hole

golf match in which my partner and I emerged victorious bv four up and two to go. I got the last hole in one. To be sure that was the short hole. The longest is thirty-five yards. Still, even around this abbreviated circuit one knows that he has been in a fight at the end of four or five hours. According to the scales I have lost fifteen pounds. With four more matches like this under my belt I can get bark into the profession which I originally had in mind when I was in college. I mean posing for living pictures. If I were only a little less

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frank and honest in admitting long aeo events which I remember nobody would ever take me for a rrrre 45. It has been a grave mistake on my part i-ver tr set down rerolleftions of what happened tiie night the Maine was sunk or to record my mpressioos ot Sir Henry Irving in his conception of Hamlet. But the fault is not entirely my own. a a a O. A’.. I'tide Heyirood! I BLAME the mantle of senescence which lies so . lightly around my shoulders on the character of tie organization by which I am employed. In previlus jcibs th°re were always a couple of editorial writers who had been buddies of Lincoln. The sporting editor usually went bark to the days when you could b caught out on the first bounce. And the dramatic critic liked to be w heeled into the city room to relate what a devil he had been with all the better looking members of the original "Black Crook ’ company. Now things are very different. Possibly my reputation for decrepitude rests upon the fact that on very many days I do not go down to the office. I have mv reasons. The last visit was embarrassing. In the ante-room I hailed an alert youngster whom I took to be an office boy and said, “Would you mmd getting me a sheet of carbon paper?” He seemed a little startled and answered. ‘'You’ll have tc see my assistant. I'm busy just now. I have to go downstairs and make up the paper.” Chagrined. I made profuse apologies, "I'm terribly sorry, sir." I said. "I didn't know you were the managing editor.” ' That's all right." he replied cheerfully enough. And by the way. don't call me 'sir.' I'm known to all the boys down here as Butch.’” For a week or so I tried very hard to pal around with my bosses and confreres. I "Butched” and "Billed" with the best of them. They called me "Uncle Hrywood." The thing that ended it all was one afternoon when we sat around swapping reminiscences. I told about the days of my boyhood in New York before the subway was built and we used to play baseball on a vacant lot on Broadway and Eighty-sixth street. I was the right fielder except on the days when Charlie was able to get away to play. Tnen I was first substitute. ana Ah. Those Dear. Deart Days 'T'HIS stirred one of the executives to dig way l back into his own past. "I can remember.” he said, "as if it were yesterday the day that Herbert Hoover was inaugurated. In fact I covered that story." As soon as it was convenient I lett that lodge of voutn before anybody caught up the ancient days when Hill Terry's Giants won the National League pennant. At home I drew out my collection of personal snapshots of the original members of the Floradora Sextette. I poured myself a little of the Napoleon brandy and raised the glass high in the air. "Here's to us." I cried, "and the dear dead days. There's a magnum of champagne for the first sleigh which makes the tavern. And after let's hear Jenny Lind ring or would you rather see Mr. Booth's Othello? Peter Stuyvesant is holding a municipal reception and if I'm not mistaken there's some silly business on about buying this entire island from he Indians. Let's go. They say you can get in on a police card." Ancient I may be. but just give me a couple more days in which to train and I'll take on any fledgling superior for 72 holes or more for money or marbles, or at least a decent consideration for my graying locks. (Copyright. 193 V. by The Times!

Today s Science

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SPINNING on its axis—and wobbling a bit too as thoneh it were slightly tipsy—the earth whirls on its dizzy way. Around and around on its axis. Around and around the sun. Around and around the Milky Way. too. if you take a long enough view, for the sun itself is part of the great cosmic merry-co-round that we call the galaxy. Great forces, some well known, others only guessed at. bombard the earth. The sun sends light and heat and bv its gravitational pull keeps the earth in its proper orbit. The moon, itself swinging around the earth, causes the tides. From the sun spots come electron bombardments which generate the northern lights and cause magnetic storms. From the far reaches of space come meteors to burn themselves up in the earth's atmosphere. From somewhere in the Milky Way comes a cosmic hiss, a radio wave w hich sounds in pow erful long-range receivers like the rush of running water. From no-body-knows-where come the cosmic rays, detectable only with complex devices, but nevertheless shooting through our bodies day and night. There are other mysteries—the noctilucent clouds which shine high in the sky sometimes at night, and the cosmic radiation, the faint light which is not starlight, but which appears in the open night sky. a a a \ ROUND this spinning earth, protecting it from the universe, outside is the mantle of air. the atmosphere. Life would be impossible without it. Without the atmosphere there would be no blue sky. no northern lights. The meteors would never be visible were it not for the atmosphere. The atmosphere is another ocean An ocean of air. Men walk around on the floor of this ocean. Only recently have they learned to swim in it a little with the aid of balloons and airplanes and Zeppelins. They still do their swimming near the bottom of this ocean. Only recently have they learned to rise a little ways into it. Piccard started it. He was the first to go aloft into the stratosphere. Since then others have followed his example. Fourteen persons have ascended into the stratosphere. but only nine came back alive. a a a 'T'ODAY there is much activity at Rapid City, An. D. Twelve miles away, in a pocket in the Black Hills, preparations are being made for the most pretentious stratosphere flight ever tried. Under the auspices of the National Geographic Society and the United States army air corps. Major William F. Kepner. pilot, and Captain Albert W. Stevens, observer, are getting ready to take off in a balloon three times as large as any free balloon that has ever been built. The bag of the balloon has a capacity of 3.000.000 cubic feet. Partially inflated, this balloon will rise to the height of a twenty-seven-story office building. A sheltered pocket in the Black Hills has been chosen for the start of the flight because the slightest wind, tugging at the huge bag would make it impossible to control it before the start of the flight. At 9 on the night before the flight, the task of putting hydrogen into the gigantic balloon will begin. It will continue all night, until the balloon is 10 per cent Inflated.

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This DwincinqJMi' dered talk of streamline, pro and smaller, cheaper engine. Fort; P* " V '{J \ “New roads will have to be buil Since Aristotle praised the fc , 'dP~Wt eof ' j&r i to accommodate the 100-miie-a . . —• laid —I, m .Mr -w—t *, ,11 ,r. sain. ,

here and streamline there! As much unconsidered talk of streamline, pro and con, as of the New Deal! All the while engineers of aero-dynamics and hydro-dynamics stand sadly by. Since Aristotle praised the syctalae, a sledge laid loosely on two logs, while others held it susI>ect, most innovations in vehicular style have thus found champions and foes. But seldom has the significance of the shape of the vehicle been so generally misapprehended. That shape, contrary to the belief of many, is not one merely of sweeping Mae West curves, nor of such lovely outline as the white birch. It varies w’ith the size of the object and the nature of the medium. But the essential features are these: The streamline shape has a blunt nose, its hump is in front of the mid-length and the tail is sharp. The curvature must be as free and continuous as if it were a Grecian urn. without the urn's wind resistance. Obviously, a streamlined musical instrument is an anomaly, a streamline divan a libel on nomenclature. n a a IN automobiles, however, the trend actually is toward the pure streamline. Some look more like eggs halved the long way than they used to; when they are exactly streamlined, they will look much more so than they do now. So today the pioneers in design are predicting that for several years the passenger automobile's mudguards will pass through an evolution of modification, wind-

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Alien WASHINGTON. July 6.—ln his radio talk to the nation just before he sailed for the West Indies. President Roosevelt put these questions to every citizen in the country: ‘‘Are you better off than you were last year? Are your working conditions better? Is your faith in your own individual future more firmly grounded?" In order to gauge the answers to these and similar questions, the Merry-Go-Round has conducted a cross-section poll of the country. The poll was taken in co-operation with ten newspapers situated in ten different areas representing as far as possible the diverse geography and industry of the United States. The cities w'ere selected not necessarily because of their size, but because they represented typical strata of American life. Thus in Emporia. Kan.. William Allen White interviewed for the Merry-Go-Round a farm owner and a farm laborer. In San Francisco a shipping executive and a stevedore w r ere asked regarding their view's on the New Deal. The others were a grain executive and a grain elevator employe in St. Paul, a steel executive and a steel worker in Pittsburgh, a cotton broker and a cotton farmer in Atlanta, an oil operator and an oil hand in Dallas, a livestock farmer and a livestock dealer in Des Moines, a textile mill owner and a textile employe in Boston, a railway employe in Dayton. 0., and the first two men met on the street in New' York.

The results of the poll showed that an overwhelming majority could answer the President's first question in the affirmative. They were “better off" this year than they were last. Some said their economic conditions were only slightly better, but only four, the Ohio railway employe, the Pittsburgh steel hand, the San Francisco executive and the Georgia cotton broker said that they were no better off under the New Deal. Sentiment for the President was almost unanimous —much more so than for all his policies or his advisers. All but two said that if Roosevelt were up for reelection this year, they would vote to continue him in office. The two exceptions were the Pittsburgh steel executive and the steel worker. a a a C CONFIDENCE in the future A was not expressed with the same enthusiasm. The general opinion was expressed that Roosevelt would have to get more cooperation from the country, that too many elements were opposing him. that pulling the nation out of the depression was too great a task for one man. Opinions on Roosevelt's policies were sharply divided. SentimeiTt for the AAA was exactly fiftyfifty. for and against. A majority favored continuation of the NRA. although almost all suggested modifications, and several pointed to lack of code enforcement as one of the weakest spots in the New Deal. The brain trust came in for some severe panning, but also found some friends. Its enemies, however, were in about 60 per cent majority. The vote was overwhelming that Roosevelt should move to the right rather than the left.

shields will be sloped back, body corners softened. Then the streamlining of axles will begin. Headlights will be incorporated with the radiator shell. Tails will be made sweeping and long. Bodies will grow narrow. Next the engine will be put in the rear, with passengers sitting up in the roomy, blunt nose of the car. With those changes effected and the wheels tucked almost within the main body a closely scientific streamline can be achieved. a a a THUS, and with infinite hocusporus.” predicts Daniel G. Sayre, former instructor in aeronautical engineering of the Massa-

Here are the answers to the first cross-section poll, conducted by an Atlanta newspaper. An interview with one of largest cotton merchants in the southeast: Has the New Deal improved your economic condition? No. Should Roosevelt swing more to the right or left? He should go straight ahead in a conservative way. What is the weakest spot in the New Deal? Unnecessary extravagance, creation of too many political boards and useless personnel. What is the most urgently needed next step the President should take? Get the government entirely out of business; reduce governmental expenses and reduce all forms of taxes. What do you think of the brain trust? The country generally has no confidence in the brain trust and its theories. Its members should be returned to their schools and colleges. If Roosevelt was up for re-elec-tion this year, would you vote to continue him in office? Yes, he is a great leader and the best possible man for the job. a a a AN interview with a cotton farmer: Has the New Deal improved your economic condition? I believe it has. Should Roosevelt swing more to the right or the left? Neither, I think he should retain the course he has charted. What is the weakest spot in the New Deal? Failure of self-seeking politicians to co-operate to the fullest extent. Do you favor continuation of the NRA? Yes. What do you think of the brain trust? Why not try brains for a change? Do you still have confidence in

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chusetts Institute of Technology, “will the popular car be rescued from the itinerant windmill category. . . . The only difficulty apparent at this time is the fact that, long before the streamlined decade is over, the etymological butchers who name such things as automobile vintages will have exhausted all conceivable possibilities. . . . “We can anticipate aerocar, roadaplane, viaplane, streamocar, streamster, torpedocar and zeppobile.” Meanwhile engineers point out that in the car of the future the feature of chief importance must be the flow of air over the tail.

the President’s capacity to bring the country out of the depression? Yes. If Roosevelt W'as up for re-elec-tion this year, w'ould you vote to continue him in office? Yes. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) LARGEST U. S. BANKS SHOW DEPOSIT GAINS New York Financial Institutions Report Increases. lijl rfitted I'rrftn NEW YORK, July 6.— I The two largest banks in the United States —the Chase National and the National City—today reported gains in deposits as of June 30. The reports, in response to the call isued by the controller of the currency, show'ed deposits of the Chase on June 30 totaled $1,533,447.000, compared with $1,364,339,000 on Dec. 30, 1933. The National City’s total deposits on June 30 were $1,226,637,000, against $1,186,305,000 as of last March 31.

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“And another charming -feature of this old place is that it has no electricity, or running water.”

For years, of course, it has been generally believed that by putting the sharper end of a shape in front the air resistance as th£ body moved forward would be less than if the bulbous end were there. Yet the truth is just the reverse. Tomorrow’s pasenger car, although some of the modernists’ designs seem revolutionary, is going to be esthetically much more endurable than today’s. ana NEITHER will a truly streamlined car affront people with a budget. Engineers think it will save a third of one's gasoline at thirty miles an hour and more

TODAY and TOMORROW nan ana By Walter Lippmann

THE turn of the fiscal year has provoked much discussion about the government’s spending program. In this debate men tend to divide into schools, one arguing that recovery can not be induced “artificially, another that the government will spend too much, another that it is not spending fast enough. The argument is generally inconclusive, because each tends to concentrate on someone element of a situation which really comprises the combination of many elements. Take for example, the notion that the government must spend until prosperity is restored. Stated this way the policy is absurd. The government can spend till the cows come home. Its policy will be a failure unless there is a revival of profitable enterprise. Without that revival the spending will produce activity only as long as it continues. When the spending stops, the activity will stop.

For that reason the true criticism of the administration policy in the last year is not that it decided to spend money to start activity, but that the spending policy W'as accompanied by other policies that discouraged the revival of activity.

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By George Clark

than half of it at between sixty and seventy. It will go as fast as present cars and will have a smaller, cheaper engine. Forty to fifty miles on a gallon of gasoline can be expected. Buckminster Fuller thus foresees an early future: “New roads will have to be built to accommodate the 100-mile-an-hour speed we all are going to find commonplace. New improvements will call for entirely different conception of the use of materials such as rubber, steel, aluminum, zinc and copper. The revolution of the car will be a boon to the industry and all affiliated industries. It will have a direct bearing on a trend that becomes increasingly evident—the decentralization of our cities.” As progress in design and engineering continues the question arises of whether initiative on the part of industrialists will keep pace. Will the industrial pioneers of yesterday have a counterpart tomorrow? Will a call have to be sounded to stir others? And where to find them? Well, Ford was a stationary engineer. John N. Willys and the Dodge brothers were bicycle dealers. Elwood Haynes was a metallurgist, the Studebaker brothers, blacksmiths and woodworkers; Walter P. Chrysler, a railroad employe; Benjamin Briscoe, a sheet metal worker; Ransom E. Olds, a machinist; James Couzens, a bookkeeper; Henry M. Leland, a toolmaker; Walter White, a salesman. Europe has credit for conceiving the gasoline propelled automobile, the United States for making it a financial success. Now t the innovations coming from drafting room and laboratory are anew challenge.

ernment go into debt to stimulate activity, it w'as w'rong for the government to lock up the private capital market, to tolerate or encourage semi-monopolistic price fixing and to increase labor costs faster than volume of business. a a b 'T'HE danger has not been in the spending policy as such: It has been in the accompanying policies which neutralize it. For if the government spends huge sums to “prime the pump," but won't let the pump work, then it is faced with endless spending. That would lead ultimately to all those dangers of a collapse of credit and of a resort to flat money w-hich the opponents of “spending" fear. Those dangers would arise not from the spending policy but from other policies I which prevented the spending from achieving its result. There are many signs that this now is beginning to be understood in Washington. Hence the amendment of the securities act, the retreat of NRA from the price-fixing arrangements, and the strong intimation that the administration will now seek to reduce the costs of construction. a a a r T~'HE doctrinaire opponents of the spending policy profess to j believe tnat if the government had left the gold dollar as it was and had balanced its budget w 7 e should now have a much more substantiarl recovery than we have. Let those w r ho believe this name a single country of any importance where there has been adherence to strictly orthodox financial and monetary policy and where there has been recovery. They can not name one. The British have balanced their budget. But they have not maintained their currency. For the plain fact is that with gold prices at their present level it is impossible to adhere to the old gold parity and have enough to yield enough money to balance a budget. I say it is impossible, because nobody has been able to do it. ' (Copyright, 1934)

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Filtered a* Second Class Matter at rnatolTiee. Indianapolis, Tnd.

Fdir Enough KIHKWI NEW YORK. N. Y.. July 6—lt must be a great blow to Adolf Hitler to hear that Mr. Clarence Darrow has denounced his purging process in Germany as murder. Coming from Mr. Darrow, murder is a nasty word. And when he also said he thought Herr Hitler ought to be dead he must have been churned to the depths of his remarkably tolerant soul. After all this time it is something to learn from Mr. Darrow that there is such a thing as murder and that murderers deserve to die.

Mr. Darrow may be recalled as the counsel who enabled two of the most distinguished assassins of our time in the United States to gpt away with a mischievous juvenile prank which, to many other persons, had some of the a.spects of willful murder. In this case, Mr. Darrow's clients took a school-boy named Bobby Franks out into the suburbs of Chicago and purged him to death for the fun of it. The citizens’ sense of humor failed them lamentably in this crisis and they jumped to the conclusion that the purging of Bobby Franks by Mr. Darrow s

clients exceeded the bounds of innocent play and constituted murder of a particularly wanton and atrocious kind. Thanks in large part to the art and the broadmindedness of the legal profession, the citizens of Chicago long since had been educated away from the narrow prejudice against homicide, or purgery as Herr Hitler might call it, which is common in most communities. Therefore when they suspected that the purging of Bobby Franks had been murder, and no fooling, it was obvious that the boys had ventured pretty close to the reprehensible in doing what they did. a tt a Crossing Up the Citizens IT turned out that they had purged Bobby Franks merely to see whether they could get away with it. Taking one consideration with another and anticipating all the standard extenuations with which the distinguished members of Mr. Darrow’s never-to-be-adequately-honored profession had made them familiar, the citizens of Chicago had reason to conclude that Mr. Darrow's clients were guilty of murder. In these circumstances. Mr. Darrow, whose tolerance knew' no bounds, crossed up the citizens of Chicago. He agreed with them that the Messrs. Leopold and Loeb had overstepped the limits of refined humor in killing Bobby Franks for the fun of it. Mr. Darrow entered a plea of guilty but he did not agree, as he has now agreed in the case of Adolf Hitler, that the murderers ought to be dead. On the contrary, Mr. Darrow shook his forelock down over his nose, assumed his most paternal, not-long-for-this-world-anyway manner and talked the unfortunate judge into a state. He talked the judge into such a state that the judge capitulated and, instead of condemning Leopold and Loeb to death, ordered them preserved from death as long as they might naturally live. Therefore, if at this time, you should some how improve an opportunity to inflict upon Mr. Darrow's late clients that death which he recommends for Adolf Hitler, you would be indicted for murder. And, lacking Mr. Darrow’s assistance in court, you might be sentenced to death yourself. A Menial Halt-Walking Trick TO be denounced as a murderer and recommended for death by Mr. Darrow is a fate which is as bad as death itself. To be placed beyond the generous compassion of the man who heightened the American respect for law and the sanctity of human life by enabling Leopold and Loeb to get away with the most frightful murder which a murderous country has produced in twenty years is to find one’s self blackballed from the human race. Herr Hitler should feel severely rebuked. Often in Mr. Darrow’s career it has seemed that he w'as striking an attitude which strained his social and emotional ligaments and gave him, to say nothing of others, a pain in the neck. His angry outcry against Adolf Hitler seems much more honest than his speech in defense of the two young degenerates who killed Bobby Franks and much more wholesome, too. His defense of Leopold and Loeb was a job of mental ballwalking and a great trick. But if he is honest about Hitler he was only playing the lawyer's game and his great humanitarianism was strictly an act when he talked the two fun-loving boys out of the electric chair. Hitler is said to be a wild-eyed nut who thinks he is right. Mr. Darrow's clients, Leopold and Loeb, were not nuts and they never for an instant doubted that they were wrong. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health

BY UK. MORRIS FISHBEIN

IN the Olympic games last year, the Japanese swimming team inhaled oxygen before engaging in competitive performances. The swimmers took the oxygen for five minutes about one-half hour befcie entering competition. At once a great hubbub was raised and charges were made that such a performance was unethical. Now some scientific studies have been made andi provide some facts as to just how much the inhaling! of oxygen will heip the swimmer. Its effects onl swimming were tried in various ways. \ a a a AFTER emptying the lungs of air as much as possible, a swimmer took two deep inhalations of oxygen and immediately plunged into the water, holding his breath. In eleven of seventeen cases, men who did this were able to break their own unofficial records. Os six who did not break their records, four exhaled before they hit the water and one was not in good shape. When, however, the swimmers Inhaled oxygen for from three to five minutes ar.d discontinued for from four to five minutes before a 100-yard swim, the breathing of the oxygen did not seem to have any noticeable affect on their speed. a a a TESTS also were made of the value of breathing oxygen in running and on the value of breathing oxygen in hastening recovery after exercise. It was found that oxygen breathing in actual competition, unless given right at the start, is hardly worth while. The inhaling of oxygen for five minutes after a 100-yard swim has little effect on recovery, judging from a second 100-yard swim twenty minutes later. Breathing of oxygen immediately after hard exercise gives quicker relief to the breathing and circulation. If you breathe oxygen deeply three times, you may be able to hold your breath in a lying position up to .six minutes and thirty seconds, whereas ordinarily the length of time during which you may hold your breath is much less.

Questions and Answers

Q—For how long does the rainy season last in California? A—From about the middle of November until April or May.

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