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ItJeemioMe HEYWOD WIN XJEW YORK July 10—The other day I wrote about the Lesion of Decency and tried to poke fun at It. I have received a number of letters of protest and so I want to apologize and take back what I said. The matter is too serious for frivolous comment. The movement, unless checked, will kill American culture. These may seem rather highfaluting phrases to employ in regard to a campaign which has for its Immediate purpose the elimination of Hollywood

sensationalism. But it already is evident that the organized clerics and their followers can beat the film producers into submission. Success is a heavy wine which drives reformers tipsy. They will go on to force a censorship upon books, magazines and the stage. ♦ William Randolph Hearst who identifies himself as the first of the pioneers in the effort to make Los Angeles moral, confesses the inevitable enlargement of the drive. In a signed editorial he says, "And if the screen deprives reformers of one job, let them turn their attention to improving

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our art. our letters and our drama.” Mr. Hearst's original blast against the excesses of the screen was written and published on Oct. 5, 1933. Although the communication was prominently displayed in the Los Angeles Examiner of that date It barely possible that the message was not recognized as a genuine ukase from San Simeon since the distinguished author chose to assume a pen name. His message to the American people came to an end with the following flourish, ‘ when an American husband takes his family to the theater, he ought to be certain that he is not taking them to a house of ill famo.” The proclamation was signed simply ‘An American Husband.” nan Even William Can't Do It MANY have contended that William Randolph Hcarst is the greatest of American journalists. I do not agree. I think he falls short on his own potentialities because he possesses so strong a sense of modesty and because he lacks a sense of humor. As to his sense of modesty may I offer in evidence further paragraphs from Mr. Hearst's suggested program for his League of Decency. "We have no literature so far worthy of the name,” he says, “but such wri'ing as appears is in large part sordid or salacious.” It grieves me to hear one of the most profound of American patriots taking this attitude. Perhaps it is no more than a temporary period of humility. Possibly the glamour of the old world has for the moment turned the head of the man who has been the most dangerous patron of American letters. If only I knew 'the address I would cable upon the instant, "Cheer up, Sir. Stop. At times many of your magazines are not half bad. Stop. Yours for America First.” And this brief message might well be followed bv a letter in which I would endeavor to point out t Mr. Hearst that the Cosmopolitan printed some the very best of Ring Lardner and Dorothy Parkand a little possible Hemingway. I might even be tempted to go on and endeavor in convince Mr. Hearst that his League of Decency t doomed to failure and that he would do well to ciroD the whole enterprise. In his role as the highest bidder lor native fiction and articles it would seem as if William Randolph Hearst ought to be able to set and maintain certain standards. It is possibly true that a genius does not invariably spring forth whenever an elastic is snapped from around a bankroll. but the sound is a pleasant one and, for the most part, it serves to make the writing men and women give the public what the publisher wants. 000 Let's Ask a Question BEING myself a cosmopolitan alumnus I am aware of the fact that Mr. Hearst keeps the wires from California hot with messages to his editors instructing them. “Please be careful to keep all suggestions of sex and sensationalism from our magazines and newspapers.” And yet his best efforts have not availed. He himself admits as much. If Mr. Hearst has not. been able to correct these great abuses I wonder how anybody else has the temerity to trv. But I am not weeping. Naturally I do not question the right of any persons to stay away in droves from plays or books or pictures which thev do not like. But I wonder if all the recruits to the movement for the establishment of a clerical censorship really have considered what the result of such an arrangement might be. It puzzles me that some of the very editors who have been most vociferous in fighting for the freedom of the press are the same ones who would sell the st2ge and screen and literature down the river. Let us adopt the Rooseveltian formula of asking the individual reader to think of the best American plays which he has ever seen. Doesn't "What Price Glory?” belong in that list? And "Rain?” And "Desire Under the Elms?” And “Strange Interlude?” And a score of others? And what chance would any of these have if the choice were left to clerical judgment ? I will go further than that. I would not even be willing to leave the question of censorship to William Randolph Hearst himself. i Copyright. 1934>

Your Health -B? UK. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

WHEN your child complains a good deal about I having pain in its abdomen, you should not take the situation lightly. Any abdomen pain might be serious. Os course, the first thing the doctor has to find out is whether the pain is really in the abdomen. Sometimes a pain said to be in the abdomen is actually due to irfection or inflammation in the chest. The opinions of the child himself as to where his pain is located are not likely to be accurate. By a careful physical examination, the doctor can locate the exact spot of the pain. Sometimes infection in the spine will produce pain in the abdomen. In other cases, particularly in little girls, abdomenal pains regarded as due to gas or indigestion may be the result of twisting or infections of some of the female organs. Another cause of pain in the abdomen in small children is the eating of pamt from toys, which results in lead poisoning. A good many cases of this kind have been reported. a a a \\T ORMS may cause pain in the abdomen, but W in general there are other symptoms which are more prominent. A rather unusual cause of pain is the inflammation and swelling of glands associated sometimes with an infection in the heart. There are. of course, some exceedingly causes of pain, such as the sudden blocking of the bowels. It is very important to (Jetect this promptly, as failure to relieve the condition may result in death. Another rather unusual cause if spasm of the bowels. This type of spasm may be associated with severe constipation, but may also h? a part of a general spasmodic condition in certain children. It is important to make certain as to the nature of such attacks, because with proper diagnosis they can be relieved through use of suitable remedies. a a a WHEN small children play about, they are injured occasionally and fail to report the injury at home. A fall or sudden blow on the abdomen may result in inflammatory conditions which will be painful for several months, but which the child will not properly relate to the original accident. In the vast majority of cases of pain in the abdomen. the trouble is actually due to indigestion or to constipation from a wrong diet. So many millions of words have already been written and distributed about the proper feeding of children, that it would seem almost impossible for any parent to have mused the information. But It becomes necessary to say again and again that the feeding of a child is a rather technical problem and that parents will do well to have proper advice when there is failure of regularity of the bowel action, or pain associated with the taking of food. <

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FROM PAMPAS TO PRESIDENT

New Notre Dame Head Laid Foundation for Climb as Gaucho

BY GRENVILLE MOTT Time* Sta/T Writer GAUCHO. diplomat, scholar, linguist, economist, author, editor and defender of the faith—these are a few of the accomplishments of the Rev. John F. OHara, C.S.C., who last Thursday was named twelfth president of Notre Dame university. Mr. and Mrs. John W. O'Hara were living in Ann Arbor, where Mr. O'Hara was studying law at the University of Michigan law school, when, on May 1, 1888, a sixth child was born to them. Few if any of the inhabitants of South Bend took notice of the event. But the day was a momentous one for them, for that infant, forty-six years later, was to head the nation's most famed Catholic seat of learning. When the boy was but 6 years old, his father, having received his degree, removed to Bunker Hill, Ind., to hang up his shingle and enter the practice of law. Young John's boyhood was spent in Bunker Hill and later in Peru. He was far from an ordinary child, and by many would have been considered peculiar. One of a family that ultimately boasted ten children, he stayed much by himself ana did not engage in the games and pursuits of the average boy. Never a very healthy youngster, his parents found difficulty In keeping him away from his studies. When they did succeed in detaching him from his books, he generally was to be found engaged with tools in some sort of carpentry, for Father O'Hara, as a boy, had a strong penchant for building all manner of devices. At all times he was on the’ best of terms with his brothers and sisters but he never followed them into characteristic childhood mischief. When very young he betrayed a sharp and acid tongue, an

attribute which, alleviated by a saving gracious sense of humor, has remained with him to this day. When but 3. the little boy was enjoying one of his favorite pursuits by watching the labors of a carpenter who had been called in to make some repairs on the house. The carpenter, noticing the child, asked him what he intended to be when he grew up. “A tailor,” said young John. “And what will you make when you are a tailor?” asked the carpenter, “Why coat-tails, of course,” said the lad w r ith some contempt, startled at such obtuseness. a u a YOUNG O'Hara attended Peru high school until his junior year, when his father was appointed consul-general to Uruguay with a consulate in Montevideo. Then, when the lad was but 17, the family made the long trek to South America. From the first, John took the greatest interest in his new home and gave much time to the study of Spanish, the language of the land. But his health was poor and getting worse and his parents feared tuberculosis. A doctor ordered him to the Argentine, where the climate is better, and through the good offices of a priest in Montevideo, his stay in the land of the south was made one of the most enjoyable periods in his life. The priest, like many South American missionaries, served a term in the interior among the Indians, and then returned for a period to less rigorous duty in the city. The good father, while living in the interior, had come to know well the owners of an estancia in the Argentinian interior, and he suggested that young John be sent there where he could breathe the cool, crisp winds of the pampas, and take the exercise he needed so badly. So John went to the ranch. There he learned to know and understand Don and gaucho, Spaniard and Indian. He participated in the daily routine of the ranch, and as his health improved and his strength increased, he joined more and more in the activities of the gauchos.

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

taSHINGTON, July 10. —One of Roosevelt's great gr&ndiathers W was* a prosperous Dutchman who sent his ships back and forth between the Island of Manhattan and the Virgin Islands carrying rum and sugar. At one time he controlled most of the rum trade of St. Croix, then producing the most famous rum in the world . . That perhaps is one reason his descendant is so interested in the islands he is visiting today. . . . But. there is another, much more important reason. Roosevelt was assistant secretary of the navy when we bought the Virgin Islands in 1917 as a naval base. Denmark didn t want to give them up. Finally the American minister threatened that he would take them if we could not buy them. The price was $20,000.000 Since then the Virgin Islands have been the most neglected of all our possessions. Hoover was not tactful, but correct when he caUed them an "effective poorhouse.” Reason was that the Danes invested $4,000,000 in them: American investments after our purchase totaled not more than $20,000. . . . Roosevelt, realizing this, put up $1,000,000 of PWA money to revive the ancient rum industry. The plan is to revive the foriner reputation of St. Croix, preserve standards, give back a profit to the people of the islands. Homesteading land also will be distributed to farmers. The granting of an additional billion dollars to the Home Owners Loan Corporation by the recent congress has enormously increased applications by job seekers. . . . Last week they totaled 4,980.

A special staff has been organized to handle them. . . Kansas’ representative. Mrs. Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy, writes a “Washington News Letter” during sessions of congress which she distributes free to ninety-three weekly papers in her district. . . A. F. of L. moguls are greatly concerned over the disintegrattion of its young automobile union. . . . This is because of A. F. of L. failure to stop the growth of the employers' company unions. To combat this the A. F. of L. is quietly discarding its traditional craft union policy and in this industry’ is planning to bring all the workers into one big union. a a a Employers attention!! ! ... To pharaphrase an expression of General Hugh Johnson: Don't trifle with the substitute Wagner Labor Dispute Act.” It has a secret load of dynamite. Unbeknownst to all but the framers of the measure, a provision was insterted during the bustle of adjournment. which makes the law operative regarding employers not under NRA codes, as well as those who are. The result is that Section 7a applies to all employers, whether they fly the Blue Eagle or not. . . . There is cine man to whom the additional $500,000,000 appropriation for public works brought only new burdens. . . . “Honest” Harold Ickes, PWA ruler, is being beleaguered on all sides for cash. “It's gotten so,” he says. “I can't step out of my office without having somebody brace me for $15,000,000 or $25,000,000. The other day I went over to the White House and Marvin Mc-

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ff Writer —— >_ 1 ' " list, economist, author, editor and . re a few of the accomplishments F * $ ~ who last Thursday was named iversity. Jar I A were living in Ann Arbor, where X te ? T University of Michigan law school, 1 was born to them. Few if any 4 f ijr ook notice of the event. But the N. n, for that infant, forty-six years famed Catholic seat of learning. J ild, his father, having received his § , to hang up his shingle and enter m Bunker Hill and later in Peru. if ,;nd bv many would have been // mly that ultimately boasted ten / self ana did not engage in the Vgjpl -. his parents found difficulty in When thoy did succeed in dotarh- ; A Hi ly was to be found engaged with jdfr Fat her O Hara, as a boy, had a 1111” nner of devices. ®|| t of terms with his brothers and UPf into characteristic childhood mised a sharp and acid tongue, an A ' t V v R f I glielmo Marconi, wireless invenI tor. 1 'T/ Father O'Hara ami Elmer I.ay- ■ I den ilower), new football eoaeh. - in his efforts to complete his course in the shortest possible time, ifa.Av.>u. *Vdevoted most of his efforts to stud: But even then he betrayed ' ! nvl en’lv.rea.en tor nthr uiviiiv- with him to this day. I -•< >T l.ow INC graii intern. he r < viu-d to lake ttie vows oi ,’**■* I&L ‘2 ? * ‘N- ' pri'\-’hond ind enter. -d Holy Cross T? 2 '' * ' scmuiai y. W.,1 ir._e< n. m 1912. - .'as grnriiia’ed from f °^C r V ,f F '* ’ ’ .'1 >n and in dune of --that year he was ordained by the r "— late beloved Most Rev. Joseph

It was during his stay on the estancia that hie gained much of his extraordinary knowledge of and insight into South American character, which was to stand him in such good stead in later life. 000 ON his return to Montevideo, so thorough was his knowledge of Spanish that the American minister there made him his personal messenger. He served in this capacity when not attending parochial school, where he finishel his high school course. In 1908, his father was transferred to Santos, Brazil, as consulgeneral, and young John was not long in following him to the great coffee port when Mr. O'Hara

Intyre sicked a fellow on me who wanted some money. “But I'll say this for him, he w’as quite reasonable about it; he only wanted $12,000,000.” . . . The last financial statement of the Democratic national committee showed that it still owed Joseph P Kennedy, five-year chairman of the new stock exchange control commission, more than $32,000 on loans he made for the 1932 presidential campaign. a a a ONE group not celebrating the launching of the President’s housing program are the building and loan associations. They took a bad beating on the measure. . . . They tried to write into the bill a $500,000,000 appropriation for their use. The President turned thumbs down, and despite frenzied lobbying, it was beaten. . . . Then they tried eliminating from the bill the provision authorizing the establishment of national mortgage associations. The house interstate commerce committee bowed before the lobby, but the clause was restored by overwhelming votes in both chambers. .. . Keep your eye on Donald R. R:chberg. whom the President detached as NRA general counsel and made acting director of the national emergency council. . . . The tall, able Chicagoan is destined for big things. ... His friends whisper that a U. S. supreme court appointment is not an improbability, if and when such vacancy occurs. (CoDvriKht. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

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asked him to become his personal secretary there. Although his Brazilian stay was short, it was long enough for the studious young man to gain himself a thorough grounding in Portuguese, the Brazilian language, and besides Spanish, the only South American tongue. However, the boy was anxious to complete his education and in January, 1909, he returned to the United States and enrolled at Notre Dame, from which he was graduated in 1911. During his stay there his father, following serious injuries sustained from a fall on a boat, resigned from the foreign service and returned to Indianapolis. At Notre Dame, young O'Hara,

LIFE SAVING TESTS TO BE HELD IN CITY POOL Clark Predicts 60 Per Cent Will Pass Course. From 50 to 60 per cent of the 150 persons already enrolled in the Red Cross life saving courses at municipal swimming pools will be able to pass the final tests, estimates of James C. W. Clark, Red Cross director of swimming and life saving, show. Classes are being conducted at Ellenberger, Garfield, Rhodius and Willard park pools. Two classes w r ill be conducted at each of the city pools and beaches during the summer, making it possible for persons from all parts of the city to receive instruction. Tests were passed by 350 persons in Marion county last year.

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Father John F. O’Hara and Guglielmo Marconi, wireless inventor. Father O’Hara and Elmer Layden (lower), new football coach. in his efforts to complete his course in the shortest possible time, devoted most of his efforts to study But even then he betrayed the very real enthusiasm for athletics which remains with him to this day. tt tt tt FOLLOWING graduation, he decided to take the vows of priesthood and entered Holy Cross seminary, Washington, in 1912. In 1916, he was graduated from that institution and in June of that year he was ordained by the late beloved Most Rev. Joseph Chartrand, bishop of Indianapolis diocese. Under ordinary circumstances the young priest would have taken his vows from the bishop of Ft. Wayne diocese, under whose jurisdiction he fell. At the personal request of Bishop Chartrand, however, the customary procedure was waived and the Indianapolis bishop administered the ordination. Almost at once he was appointed to the foreign commerce department at Notre Dame as a specialist in South American trade, and he remained in that department, achieving great distinction, until 1923. During the war Father O’Hara offered, his services as a chaplain,

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

IN his address at Jackson, Mich., the chairman of the Republican national committee, Mr. Fletcher, said: "The New Deal has cost to date seven billions. Congress has authorized the expenditure of at least twenty billions more.” Both of these statements are grossly inaccurate. The total outlay of funds in the fiscal year which ended June 30 was about seven billions. But this includes at least two and a half billions of ordinary expenditures which would have been incurred under any administration. It includes interest and principal on the debt. It includes the cost of the army and navy, the congress, the judiciary, the payments to veterans. To charge up these expenditures to the New Deal is absurd. Yet that is precisely what Mr. Fletcher has done when he says that “the New Deal has cost to date seven billions.”

The New Deal cost to date, that is, for the fiscal year 1934, is somewhere between two and three billions. So in saying that Mr. Fletcher

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but never was called because of a surfeit of applicants. While teaching foreign commerce, he returned to South American for several months during which he visited the principal republics on that continent and arranged for many exchange scholars between Notre Dame and Latin-American universities, principally young men who wished to specialize in trade between the United States and South American nations. During one of these trips, he arranged for his successor in the foreign commerce department, when in 1923 he was raised to Prefect of Religion at Notre Dame. The man he chose was, like himself, an expert selected from the United States foreign service. 0 AS prefect, he became editor of the Bulletin, religious paper at Notre Dame, in the columns of which he wrote many of his famed replies to scientists and iconoclasts who questioned the validity of the Christian religion. Asa teacher, Father O'Hara was very popular with the students; and even today, despite his heavy duties, he corresponds with many of his old pupils. He was appointed vice-president of the university when the health of the Rev. Charles O'Donnell, former president, began to fail. On Father O’Donnell's death, he became acting president and remained in that capacity until last week, when he officially was elected president. Father O'Hara constantly betrays his Hibernian patronymics. Still tart of tongue, he is less serious than in his youth, and his health has improved accordingly. In the last three years he has taken on some weight and no longer is “thin as a rail.” He takes to his heavy responsibilities like a “duck to water” and betrays no signs of strain. A great beli°ver in temperance, he, nevertheless, is liberal and smokes an occasional cigaret. Nor does he condemn a little drinking. He is a potent and enthusiastic supporter of the Legion of Decency, which at present is undertaking to improve the moral tone of motion pictures. 000 UNLIKE many college presidents, Father O'Hara detests the limelight, and such information as is presented in this article was garnered only on the promise that the source never would be betrayed. Both friends and relatives know that he dislikes publicity and all fear his Irish temper. He is enthusiastic about football as a character-builder for young men, and attends all of Notre Dame’s home games. But he-views such debacles as that of last fall with the greatest calm. He thinks the boys work harder and appreciate their victories more if they don’t come too easily or too often. Members of his family have lived in Indianapolis since 1909, when his father resigned from the foreign service. For many years, their home has been at 3164 North Illinois street. Father John F. O’Hara is their hero.

exaggerated the cost of the New Deal by at least 100 per cent, I am leaning over backward in the effort to give him the benefit of every doubt. a a a MR. FLETCHERS second statement that “congress has authorized the expenditure of at least twenty billions more” is just not true. The grand total of all authorizations in both sessions of the Seventy-third congress was $18,781,603,703. This is not “twenty billions more,” as Mr. Fletcher states, but somewhat less than twelve billions more. Those twelve billions include, moreover, the ordinary expenses of the government for the current year. They include the two billions set aside as a stabilization fund. They include relief. They include authorization for loans to industry. They include normal expenditures for public works and for naval and military armaments. The net theoretical authorization for what by any stretch of the imagination can be called the New Deal are for 1935 not twenty billions, as Mr. Fletcher says, not twelve billions as the gross figures show, but something less than six billions. a a a THUS it appears that in announcing the cost of the New Deal to date Mr. Fletcher multiplied the real cost by two; in announcing the authorized expenditures for the future he has multiplied the real cost about three times. This is, even allowing for partisanship, exaggeration on the grand scale. These fantastic figures are false and are intended to mislead the public. They could not have been compiled by a man who was looking for the truth. The errors in them are too great to be excused as accidental or careless. To misrepresent the financial position of the government at a time like this is a serious business. (Copyright, 1934)

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Fdir Enough uoiim NEW YORK. July 10.—Mr. George Getz, the old, amateur baboon fancier of Chicago, has an-’ nounced his determination to raise a campaign func . of $1,000,000 to return the Republicans to power by . 1936. Mr. Getz is the treasurer of the Republican national committee, having retired from baboonery to help save the country from that which Senator Arthur Vandenberg. a Republican statesman, describes as the feudal trend toward insufferable bureaucracy. He has had many interests in his time,

including a silent partnership in the promotion of the Tun-ney-Dempsey cultural awakening project, a place on the Illinois prize fight commission, and a private zoo. The cultural awakening of Chicago which he undertook to promote by the presentation of the two lithe, lean human bodies in a contest of skill and chivalry wa§ unfortunately delayed by the raucous squawk of the late Leo P. Flynn, Mr. Dempsey’s manager. Mr. Flynn did not care whether Chicago was made a better place to live in or not. He insisted that Mr. Tunney’s lithe, lean body

had been horizontal for fourteen seconds and claimed that Mr. Dempsey had been robbed of a victory which his superior skill and chivalry had rightfully earned him. So culture did not hit Chicago until the summer of 1933 when it was discovered in a concession at the world’s fair, where a danseuse named Miss Sally Rand was performing an exercise known as the meat show. Miss Rand was not appreciated at first, but she was vindicated when a learned judge dismissed a complaint with the remark that some people would wish to put pants on a horse. There were those who interpreted the judge’s remark as an unkind subtlety at the expense of the charming defendant, but Miss Rand did not search for hidden meanings. In a way, the vindication of Miss Rand and her recognition as a cultural influence was a vindication of Mr. Getz’ earlier idea, too. He had known all along that the lithe, lean body was essential to the accomplishment of the purpose which was so close to his heart. He just didn’t know whose. 000 ‘Which Is the Senior?’ MR. GETZ is a very earnest citizen and he doubtless believes in his heart that a million dollars spent to check the feudal trend toward insufferable bureaucracy would be a million dollars well spent. He is earnest about everything that he undertakes. He was earnest to the point of grimness about his private zoo and baboonery at Benton Harbor, Mich., the inmates of which he used to capture in person in periodical trips to Africa. On these visits to the jungle he used to take many camera pictures of the elephants, lions, aoudads, and baboons and, of course, many snapshots of his sons, who are his pride. One day at Madison Square Garden, Mr. Getz was showing some snapshots of his jungle expedition to Mr. James J. Johnston, the prize fight promoter, who has a sinister sense of humor. Included in the group was one picture of two baboons at play and, shuffling the little prints over and over in his fingers, Mr. Johnston paused at this one. “I can not see very well without my glasses,” Mr. Johnston said, with a roguish leer, “but even with the naked eye I can see why you are so proud of them. Which is the one who is the senior at Yale?” It was shortly after this that Mr. Getz decided to abandon his private zoo at Benton Harbor and enter politics in a serious way as treasurer of the Republican national committee, which is a very serious job. 000 A Great Moral Force NOW our pal, Mr. Getz, has estimated the cost of electing enough Republicans to turn the rascals out at one million dollars. It all has a sordid sound quite unlike anything that Mr. Getz ever has said before. It seems to put a cash price on the sacred franchise of the citizens which was purchased, as the orators often say, by the sacrifice of Valley Forge. In this predicament he might turn to Mr. Will H. Hays, the living moral standard, for advice. Mr. Hays got one contribution of $75,000 from Mr. Sinclair of Teapot Dome, and a “loan” of $185,000 more later on. For several years Mr. Hays forgot to say anything about the $185,000 “loan,” but recalled it, finally, when the investigating committee discovered the facts elsewhere. Obviously, there could have been nothing shady about the “loan” because Mr. Hays is a living moral standard. But Mr. Getz is a fastidious man. He always is trying to uplift things and he might even try to improve on the standards of the great moral force who is regarded as par in morality for a great portion of American life. (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

MME. MARIE CURIE, who helped usher in the most exciting period in the history of physics, dies at a time when physics is reaching another similar climax. It was in 1898 that she and her husband, Pierre Currie, announced the discovery of radium. Only five years earlier, in 1893, one of the most eminent scientists of the day had said in a public address that it was probable that all the great discoveries in physics had been made. Research workers of the future, he said, would have nothing to do but repeat the experiments of the past. And then in 1895 Professor Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen completely upset this nation w r ith his announcement, on Christmas eve before the German Physical Society, of his discovery of X-rays. These mysterious rays were exactly what the speaker of 1893 had said couldn't exist. Discovery of X-rays led Professor Antoine Henri Becquerel of Paris to experiment with phosphorescent substances to see if they also gave off X-rays. In the course of his experiments he discovered that uranium salts gave off mysterious rays at all times. These rays, w’hich behaved like X-rays, were called, for the time, Becquerel rays. Working in Becquerel’s laboratory at the time were Pierre Curie and his wife, Marie Curie. She asked Becquerel’s permisison to go on with the experiments to see if any substances besides uranium gave off these rays. ana SOON she discovered that pitchblende, the ore from which uranium was obtained, gave off Becquerel rays four times as strong as those of uranium itself. This could mean only one thing, namely, that pitchblende contained a chemical element which was far richer in those mysterious rays than uranium itself. Pierre Curie decided to drop his own researches and he and his wife began the fascinating task of finding this unknown flement. The Austrian government presented them with a ton of pitchblende from the mines of Joachimstha! The search came to a triumphant conclusion in 1898. From the ton of pitchblende, they had succeeded in extracting a fraction of a grain of anew chemical element which was 2.500.000 times as rich in Becquerel rays as uranium. They named this new substance. With that discovery, modern physics was started upon the road that led to the discovery of the electron, the understanding of the construction of the atom, and the other wonders of modern science. But tragedy entered the lives of the Curies as the new era in science was gathered momentum. On April 19, 1903, Pierre Curie, while crossing a Paris street, was run over by a truck and killed.

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