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H Seems io Me HEMMOUN NEW YORK, July 17.—1 t takes two sides to make a general strike. I can not go along with the trend of editorial comment which fastens the blame for a difficult and dangerous situation upon the union members. For instance, Mr. Walter Lippmann notes today in passing the assertion that the action was thrust upon the workers by the refusal of the shipowners to concede two reasonable demands. Apparently Mr. Lippmann is disposed to disregard his charge as a matter of no importance. But what,” he writes, “is the state of affairs that actually has been brought about by the decision of organized labor to fight the shipowners with a general strike? A conflict between one group of employes and one group of employers has been transformed into conflict between organized labor on the one hand and. on the other, the general public, the

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his contention it preaches the belief that every ritizen under the stress of acute discomfort will be willing to lose sight of principle and knuckle down to an acceptance of the will of private capitalists. In the present situation Mr. Lippmann enunciates a radical doctrine to which I can not subscribe. He seems to argue that the whim of a small group of shipping owners ought to be dignified under such terms as, the city, the state, and perhaps ultimately the federal government. Mr. Lippmann. I think, is far too cynical. America is not yet ready to let a small and persnickety group of employers identify themselves as embodying the state, the city, and the federal government. The public has rights and one of them is to go back constantly to the original problem involved. Any member of the public has a right to ,sav "Why should I have to take all this grief and turmoil simply because a small group of wilful men insist that in their hiring halls (hey will not permit a reasonable apportionment of the jobs.’’ u a a And as to Mr. Hearst Mr. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST joins Mr. Lippmann in a bland denial of democratic principles. “Every service essential to the life of the community,” writes the elder advocate of safety first, “must be taken in hand by special corps of citizens representing the best intelligence and directing power within the city. Private pursuits must be laid aside and the most experienced and efficient man in the community must dedicate their abilities to its service and to its rescue from this all-embrac-ing threat.” Quite obviously Mr. Hearst goes a bit beyond the position which Walter Lippmann was prepared to take just around the time of the last deadline. Mr. Lippmann has said no mere than to express the attitude of certain confused people in a particular community. Mr Hearst. or his agent, seems to suggest that now is the time for America to try its experiment of out-and-out Fascism. I am aware that this word has been employed a little carelessly. Only the other day a rooter at the Yankee stadium was incensed because the umpire called “strike” when a ball passed a little below the knees of Babe Ruth. Rising to full height, the embattled fan shook his fist at the official and shouted out, “You Fascist!” But when anybody begins to talk about a little selected group taking charge of affairs and wiping out the threat of the masses, I think that, we are being urged to take the road down which Hitler swaggered. I will agree with all the editorial writers who view the San Francisco situation with alarm. But I think they are looking in the wrong direction. A few even have seen the San Francisco strike as the beginning of the proletarian revolution. To me it seems another march on Rome. ana Send Them Haek LOOK at the facts—a small group of employers brought about a strike through refusing to to make certain minor though vital concessions. It is suggested now that an alliance of “efficient men in the community," should take over the task of administering civic affairs. Ironically enough, this little knot of faithful thinkers quite possibly might be made up of the same small number of employers who fomented the general strike. Their action may not have been as stupid as it seems. Possibly the business men of the coast decided that this was the proper time to take things over. Fortunately, the more than 40,000 men who are out constitute an army which is fighting for their rights. The police and the national guard ought to stand with them shoulder to shoulder because the union members constitute the only barrier which lies between San Francisco and a Brown Shirt front. The workers are fighting for the union, and I refer both to their own and that one in which we all live and have our being. You can not indict an entire nation. No more can a free people fighting against tyranny be terrorized by cannon, tanks and the various gases which make those near at hand a little sick. Sometimes you can even get the effect here in New York And so I still think that the lawless employes should be restrained and if they don’t like it here I see no possible objection to sending them back where they came from. iCocvrleht. 1954. br Tbe Timesi

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ONE of the most annoying diseases of the skin is called psoriasis. In this condition the skin peels away in large amounts in the form of silvery-like scales. These scales develop on top of the chronic inflammation of the skm. Treatment of this condition has been almost the despair of skin specialists for years. All sorts of remedies are constantly being tried. These frequently produce a cleanng of the condition, but seldom a complete cure. Because it is associated with the general reactions of the body as a whole, psoriasis frequently changes its character with changes in the diet, with freedom from worry, with the incidence of some other disease, or with almost any condition affecting the body as a whole. 9 9 9 WHEN the white scales are forcibly removed. there are tiny bleeding points just beneath each of them. With many patients the areas of inflammation disappear either wholly or partially during the summer and return in the cold weather. The disease usually appears first on the outer or extensor sides of the arms and legs, especially around the elbows and knees. It may. however, occur on any part of the body, but most rarely on hands and feet. Psoriasis occurs most frequently in the second and third decade of life, but no age is exempt. It is unusual for a first attack to appear after fortyfive years of age. mam THE disease apparently is not contagious or directly transmitted from parents to children, but heredity seems to play a part in some cases. The definite cause of the disease has not been established. however. In early stages of this condition, a modification of the diet with elimination of meats sometimes is effective. The skm usually is treated with mild ointment*. In ehronic cases the ointments most frequently used contain a substance called ehrysarobin. which seems to have the specific quality of clearing up the spots.

city, the state and perhaps ultimately the federal government.” It seems to me that Mr. Lippman grossly underrates the intelligence of the general public. And I think he is unfair in charging an entire community with moral cowardice. “i do not know,” said Edmund Burke, “the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.” Even when the problem has been scaled down to a single city I doubt if Walter Lippmann is competent to draw up such a scathing indictment of San Francisco. As I understand

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PODERJAY CASE: JIGSAW PUZZLE

Detectives of Two Continents Seek to Put Pieces Together

BY PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK, July 17.—A new police official heads the search for. Agnes Colonia Tufverson. More operatives have been enlisted in tracing and patching together bits of evidence gathered from half a dozen countries. And the fantastic case, which holds rank among the most baffling mysteries, still flounders in a welter of cleus. Over in Vienna, Captain Ivan Ivanovitch Poderjay sits in a cell and smiles as he lies to infuriated but helpless questioners. The suave poseur, adventurer, bigamist and swindler is charged with “suspicion of murder.” In another cell is Marguerite Suzanne Ferrand, w r ho while the wife of Poderjay urged him to marry Miss Tufverson “so that if anything wonderful happens we will have money.” SShe was wearing one of Miss Tufverson’s frocks on the day Poderjay was arrested, and she is charged with “suspicion of having profited by a murder.”

In New' York a great stack of documented testimony, reports, photostats and the like fills a drawer in the desk of Captain John Stein, new chief of the police department’s bureau of missing persons. Captain Stein has sixteen men on the case, and they are still turning in bits of the jigsaw which indicate that the puzzle, if it ever is complete, will be a shocking picture. ana BUT of the key-piece, the one which will prove the missing woman alive or dead, there is not a trace. It has been seven months since any one has seen the woman attorney, and the long interval proved a discouraging obstacle topolice. Witnesses have forgotten details which might have been important, and vital physical evidence probably has been destroyed. But from a maze of clews and rumors authorities nowhave arrived at the facts of much of what actually happened. They met on a boat train, and later on a liner, when she was returning from a vacation trip to Scotland more than a year ago. He represented himself as a wealthy Yugoslavian apd said he was coming to America to sell an invention. Miss Tufverson w-as not a pretty woman, or attractively feminine. Yet Poderjay paid her marked attention; many noticed his apparent devotion. He says she was the one who proposed marriage—that she had contemplated suicide because of some unhappy amorous experience and desired marriage to restore her self-respect. None of her friends believe this; they say she had no such emotional crisis, that she w-as not of the brooding sort, and that the prospect of marriage to the polished. charming foreigner made her radiantly happy. a a a ON Dec. 4. when the pair took out a wedding license, Poderjay falsely swore that he w-as un-

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, July 17.—N0 matter how hot the summer, some twist of fate usually decrees that the foreign problems of the United States shall break fast and furious when people are supposed to be vacationing . . . This is true now. Secretary Hull led what he thought was a busy winter. But it had nothing on the present. Now he is flooded with cabled reports on Hitler's "purging,” with notes on German debt defaults, with naval negotiations in London, and with the problem of negotiating new tariff treaties . . . Summer usually is this way in foreign affairs. Reason: Summer is not so hot in Europe, and in South America it is now winter . . . Art Curator Fairman of the Capitol building says that people frequently criticise Trumbull's painting of the Declaration of Independence because their ancestors—who were signers—have been left out . . . “I tell them they should have brought that up in 1819,” says Fairman. a a a a a a CONFIDENTIAL word from London is that Ramsay MacDonald’s three months’ vacation was a move to shelve him permanently and that probably he will not come back.

The ex-labor leader, now premier. has aged rapidly, has difficulty in speaking on the floor of commons . . . "Ma” Perkins is handling her new job of labor dispute conciliator without the General Johnson pyrotechnics, but with force and poise. Her comeback to a place of labor power, after having been shelved by Johnson and Wagner, has been remarkable. . . . Miss Perkins pronounces "employe” with a French ending as if it were “em-ploy-ay.” nan INSIDERS are whispering that after the congressional elections are safely out of the way, the sales tax will be trotted out and a strong drive launched to put it over at next year's session of congress. . . . The President, they hint, is fully apprised of the plan. . . Michigan's multimillionaire Senator Jim Couzens has gone ritzy in a big way this summer. Jim has chartered a palatial ocean-going yacht: with his family and select friends is touring the Great Lakes. . . . The vessel is the size of a young cruiser. Its hull is jet black, its superstructure gold and white, and it has a bridge that would turn an ocean liner green with envy. . . . The bureau of printing and engraving is working overtime these hot summer days rushing dies for the new silver certificates soon to be issued. Such greenbacks are not new, over $495,000,000 already being in circulation. But the new certificates will be of a distinctive design. They will be issued in all denominations. . . . New Jersey's millionaire banker. Senator "Ham” Kean, is such a die-hard "rugged individualist” that he is seriously engaged in breeding a type of what he calls "rugged chickens” on his elaborate model farm . . “Ham” says he wants to raise a breed of chickens "able to take care of themselves under all kinds of conditions.” Several American business men spent an evening recently with popular Boris Skvirsky, counsellor of the Soviet embassy. They explained to him American business methods and system. Skvirsky was keenly interested. After several hours one of the Americans observed: “I think we could make a capitalist out of you.” Skvirsky laughed, looked at his watch, replied: “I'm not afraid. It's 11:30, and you won’t have tune.”

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married and never had been divorced. She gave her age as 35; it w-as 43. They were married at the famous Little Church Around the Corner, and that evening Poderjay moved his luggage to her three-room apartment. On Dec. 20, at 5 p. m., the couple w-ent to the pier of the Hamburg-American line. They had several pieces of hand luggage; no trunks. He may have intended to sail alone, although he had no reservation. She may have insisted on accompanying him, an arrangement not to his liking because he knew his real wife would be w’aiting at the dock in Southampton, Anyway they quarreled, returned to the apartment, and were still quarreling when a Negro maid went to the apartment at 11 o’clock that night. Poderjay told the maid not to come in next day, but to come the following day. That was the last time Miss Tufverson is know-n to have been seen alive. a a a ON Dec. 21 Poderjay bought 200 razor blades, a sleepproducing sedative, and perhaps a cheap black metal trunk. A merchant sold such a trunk to a man of Poderjay’s description, but there is no subsequent trace of it. Employes at the apartment building do not recall any of the trunks very clearly. On Dec. 22 the Negro maid entered the apartment and found Poderjay sorting over papers. When she asked about Miss Tufverson he said she had gone to Philadelphia. A little later he told a woman w T ho inquired that Miss Tufverson had preceded him to Europe. The maid cleaned up the place and put a quantity of litter into the building incinerator. Poderjay sent at least four trunks and some hand luggage dow-nstairs, hired a truck, and rode on it to the pier of the S. S. Olympic. He sailed alone and insisted upon

'T'HE justice department has one of the most efficient international exchanges in the world. It is for finger-prints. It swaps them with forty-eight countries from Algiers to Turkey . . . Washington's chief gratitude to the stock exchange commission is because its chairman, Joe Kennedy, rented the estate of Samuel K. Martin, one of the great show places of this section. Only a handful of Washingtonians ever have seen inside of it. Now they can . . . Martin. 25-year-old Chicago heir, married a Broadway dancer and built the house as a wedding present for her . . They lived in it only a jhort time, with no opportunity to meet Washington society. Then domestic difficulties arose, the estate was closed . . . Looking like a small edition of Versailes. all the plumbing in the house is heavily gold plated, the tubs are really large sunken swimming pools, the beds are in the middle of the rooms, built in, each on a dais In the basement is a completely equipped theater to seat 200 people, with double moving picture projection and thousands of dollars worth of special lighting facilities . . . But if Kennedy wants to use it, he'll have to have the chairs moved back in . Young Martin had them all removed so he could set up a gigantic electric toy railroad system on the floor. . . . Also, the Kennedy's probably will want to bring their own servants. . . . The Martin menials were all college graduates, paid very high salaries. because Mrs. Martin explained it made her uncomfortable to have the servant class around her. ‘CoDvricht 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Itjc.t INTELLIGENT PAROLE SYSTEM IS URGED Young Offenders Would Be Aided, Wayne Coy Tells Club. Need for an intelligent parole system in Indiana was voiced yesterday by Wayne Coy. secretary to Governor Paul V. McNutt, in an address to the Service Club at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Intelligent use of the parole system would rehabilitate many young offenders, Mr, Coy said.

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Pieced together are Captain John Stein (upper center), new head of the New York Police Bureau of Missing Persons; the mysteriously missing Agnes Colonia Tufverson (upper center); the trunk (upper right) containing the vanished woman’s lingerie, found in Captain Ivan Poderjay’s Vienna apartment; Captain Poderjay (left center); the port hole (center)of Podcrjey’s cabin on the S. S. Olympic (lower left); and Marguerite Suzanne Ferrand (lower right).

keeping an unusually large trunk in his stateroom. It was an outside room with a porthole large enough for a body to be pushed through it into the sea. a a a Marguerite ferrand met him at Southampton. Later he sent a cable, signed “Agnes,” to Miss Tufverson’s sister Sally. It said: “We now on way to India will cable and write later.” Thus it was several months before Sally Tufverson became alarmed by Agnes’ silence and requested a police investigation. Not the least mysterious aspect

FARMER’S MURDER PUZZLES DEPUTIES Piece of Bark and Carpet Spots Only Clews. Deputy sheriffs today faced blank wall in their hunt for the murderer of Alfred (Dan) Pearson, Beech Grove farmer, killed early yesterday. Officers vainly shifted the only available clews, two pieces of bark in the slain man's bed and damp spots on carpets in his home, in an attempt to penetrate the mystery. Meanwhile, William Williams, missing farm hand, was being sought. Mr. Pearson was found in his bed by Mrs. Ethel Pearson, his wife, with a gaping wound in his forehead. Mrs. Pearson had been sleeping in another room. Mr. Pearson’s skull had been fractured in two places by what appeared to be terrific blows. PASTOR WILL SPEAK AT Y The Rev. Morris H. Coers to Be Heard Tonight. The Rev. Morris H. Coers, Thirtyfirst Street Baptist pastor, Indiana Boys’ school chaplain and WKBF "Friendly Philosopher,” will speak on “The Five Greatest Things in Character Building” at the Y. M. C. A. “bean supper' at 6:20 tonight. There will be special music.

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of the case is how Poderjay persuaded Miss Tufverson, a lawyer and shrewd business woman, to give him her money. Nevertheless, he became a co-holder of her safety deposit box on Dec. 19, and next day the contract for the box was relinquished. He has admitted receiving the money from her bank account, and police believe he received from her more than $30,000 in cash and securities. There are only a. few applicable theories. If Miss Tufverson was murdered, her body may have been put through a porthole into the

TODAY and TOMORROW ts ad *t tt ts By Walter Lippmann

MR. VANDELEUR, leader of the general strike in San Francisco, states that “the action was thrust upon them (i. e. the men) by the shipowners of San Francisco, who by their refusal to concede two reasonable demands, made upon them by their employes, brought about this state of affairs.” But what is the state of affairs that actually has been brought about by the decision of organized labor to fight the shipowners with a general strike? A conflict between one group of employes and one group of employers has been transformed into a conflict between organized labor on the one hand and, on the other, the general public, the city, the state and perhaps ultimately the federal government. < Organized labor by its decision undoubtedly meant to add to the pressure upon the shipowners. But in fact it will relieve the pressure upon them and raise up immeasurably greater forces of resistence to

' organized labor. For whatever the general public and the authorities may think of the shipping dispute they are now confronted with, a situation where it is impossible for them to be neutral. They are compelled by the general strike to take measures to defeat the general strike. The particular issues, between management and men, are swallowed immediately up in the urgent need of the people for food, for safety of movement, for the right to proceed with their own affairs. A general strike is in its very nature a strike not against certain employes or even against the whole class of employers, but against public authority.

ocean, or it still may be in a trunk. It was not dismembered and dissolved or burned in the apartment incinerator. If she committed suicide, she almost certainly would have sent some word to her relatives, and she scarcely would have carefully planned the act so her body would not be found. Vienna police have reported that they are in possession of enough evidence to warrant trying Poderjay for murder. But they overlooked the iron-clad technicality in American law which requires the presence of a corpse in a murder case.

It is bound to enlist against organized labor, however just may have been the original complaint, the force of that public opinion which ultimately wields the whole power of government. When that happens, organized labor is bound to lose and to be the victim of a severe reaction tt a a EVEN the most democratic community, in recognizing the right to strike, will not recognize it as an unlimited and absolute right. Asa matter of fact, in any severe test the right will be found to be limited. The state will permit the strikers to attack the profits of their employers; it will not permit them to starve a city or paralyze its whole economic life or shut down essential services on which depend the health and the security of the whole community. The state will tolerate strikes if they hit only particular groups of employers and shareholders; it will excuse inconvenience and some economic loss. But it will strike against a strike which is general, which is vital, which is broadly destructive. That the general strike is a political weapon is w r ell known to all experienced labor leaders. They know that it is suicidal or folly to call a general strike to settle a specific dispute. A general strike is the last resort of labor when it is fighting, not particular employers, but the political power of the government. It is a weapon to be used against tyranny or to promote a political revolution. In either case the strikers mean to strike against the state, if they are not fighting political tyranny or engineering a revolution, if what they want is simply to remedy grievances or to improve their position within the existing order, then the general strike is a weapon which cut the hands of those who wield it. a a a IT is obvious that no observer at a distance is competent to have an opinion on the measures which the authorities in California ought to take. But the policy which ought to govern their specific measures is clear enough. They mus: insure to the people of San Francisco food, fuel and security of person and property This will require force. The force should be so adequate that it need not be utilized, should be so impressive that it will not be resisted (Copyright. 19M)

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Entered aa second Claea Matter at FostolTiee, Indianapolis. Ind.

Edit' Enough HHII VIEW YORK, N. Y.. July 17.—The longshoremen, or longies, whose union began the general strike in San Francisco, are reputed to be the toughest crew of laboring men in the world. Sailors and teamsters for a long time were supposed to be just as tough, but, rather oddly, at the time when the sailors were believed to be at their toughest, wnen they were the iron men of the wooden ships, they also were noted for their docility under tyranny and their fear of physical punishment such as flogging. To the perils

and hardships of the sea they were hardy and brave, but their health was not of the best and. they lived in constant terror of the anger of bullying pers and petty officers. The teamsters, also, have their soft spot. They have suffered themselves to be taken over and racketeered by hoodlum leaders at various times Skinny, undersized organizers, entirely unconnected with the profession of teaming, have moved in. assumed control, terrorized the men, slugged the dissenters around, assessed the members special fees for the privilege of belonging to their

ow-n unions, and gone out to sell them to the employers. If the employer paid what lie was asked for there would be no strike and the labor racketeer got the money. If the employers wouldn't pay, the leader called out the teamsters, and if any of them refused to strike, fellow-members of the union were sent out to slug them. Then the employer had to pay double and the leader still got the money. Maybe he also exacted a special strike assessment levied upon the entire membership. At a hearing in Washington a few years ago an official of the sailors’ union described his men as the rakings and scrapings of hell, friendless, exploited, abused and much more pathetic than formidable and tough. The longshoremen themselves have been exploited by hoodlums and bullied around unbelievably. They have been compelled to pay tribute to nervy grafters along the docks under no better authority than the threat of bodily harm and the trade w-hich glories in its reputation as the toughest crew of laboring men in the world has been no more independent than the sailors and teamsters, or the ribbon clerks, a a a Toughness a Puzzling (pialily THE toughness of tough men is a puzzling quality. They had one dock walloper along the piers in Brooklyn some years ago who came up to fight as a heavyweight in the ring but could not lick his weight in pushcart peddlers. He fought a lew years, went back to the docks and presently died. When he died he became a sort of John Henry or Paul Runyan. He could split an oak door with one smash of his mighty fist. He could lick a roomful of bad, bad men single-handed. He could tear a mattress in half as clean as a sheet of paper. But in the ring he was just another abysmal bum, shaggy, tattooed, and blotchy Citizens desiring to read up on the nature of the longshoremen, the tough, hard men who started the strike w'hich has now become general in San Francisco, would be interested in the story of big Dick Butler, a leader in the great strike of 1919 in New York, written by Joseph Driscoll year ago. Mr. Butler's story, called “Dock Walloper,” recounts many enlightening reminiscences of the tough man who ” kidnaped Harry K. Thaw from the insane asylum at Mattewan. N. Y., in 1913. a a a A Consultant Longshoreman MR. BUTLER is a great cynic with an insufficient respect for the majesty of the courts and public officials and also for the truth. He admits that some of the members of his union, in one instance, suspected him of selling them out for SSOO. Mr. Butler is not a practicing longshoreman himself. He is what you might call a theoretical longshoreman or consultant. "Most revolutions start along the waterfront,” says Mr. Butler, or possibly Mr. Driscoll. “A real longshoreman is never so happy as when he is using his fists or his steel bail-hook on an enemy.” Yes? * A few paragraphs later Mr, Butler writes, “I drew a deadline across West street and dared anybody to cross it and go to work at the piers. The Cunard people complained that the workers (the tough, fight-loving longshoremen) were being scared away by gangsters with knives and pistols.” (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

IT is only fair to state that the entire scientific world is frankly skeptical of the announcement made by Nikola Tesla upon his seventy-eighth birthday that he has perfected a super death-ray capable of destroying an army of 1,000,000 men. While scientists today are unwilling to put any dream dow-n as forever impossible, they propose to believe in death rays only after they have seen them demonstrated. At present, they do not know of any principle upon which a death ray could work. Os course, the rays of radium, powerful X-rays and powerful electric discharge—so-called cathode rays—might all be called death rays in that they possess the power to kill. I have witnessed experiments w’ith powerful X-ray tubes and cathode ray tubes at the Schenectady laboratory of the General Electric Company. 7 .fc was necessary to set up the experiment in a room whose floor, walls and ceiling were lined with lead. When these tubes were in operation, it was not possible to remain within the room. To have done so would have meant death. an NIKOLA TESLA, proposes a scheme by which generators capable of developing electrical potentials of ,50,000,000 volts would be placed along the borders of the United States. These would throw out rays of some sort, building up a wall of electrified particles which could not be penetrated by airplanes or battleships. As yet, Tesla has not disclosed how he proposes to do it. And it is only fair to say that no other scentist has any idea how this could be done. Nobody has as yet developed a potential of 50,000,000 volts. The Van de Graaf generator at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at present the most powerful machine of its kind in existence, develops a potential of about 7.000.000 volts regularly and can be made to deliver 10,000.000 volts at times. But w-hile this generator develops this very high voltage, its power output is twenty-five kilowatts. This means that the amperage or current strength of the generator is only about two one-thousandths of an ampere. a a IT is a matter of record that one very learned scientist of the nineteenth century wrote an article proving conclusively that airplanes were impossible. In spite of his article, airplanes fly very welltoday. One therefore should be somewhat wary about saying that the things which Tesla is talking about are impossible But scientists just do not see any way of accomplishing the things which he says can be done. It can be seen at a glance that the ring of generators which Tesla proposes to place around the border of the United States would have to generate thousand of times more power than all the power plants now in operation in the United States. For the present at least, it would seem as though the scheme belonged in the same class with plans for visiting Mars by means of “spaceships.” In other words, one of those things which no one yet know* how %o do. J

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