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It Seems to Me HEVWOW BMN \GOOD iv.any ymrs ago I remembered a man ?• r editorial writer. In discussing aim with : ? p ok her in que *jon who long since is dead, I err ted • n.v friend was a passionate agnostic ; and In wrr >n several books and essays of an • ,fr r ? • about. religion. I expressed the hope ' aiv 'and in the wav of his getting • * j-D The publisher i aid it would not. It was p i he explained, never to inquire into the n ligious belv fs of his employes. •But.” he added in a burst

of randor. I hope Hcywood, that he won t want to write r. editorial against God every morning.’’ Late this afternoon I decided that out of a spirit of friendly co-operation I wouldn't mention the general trike or any other labor difficulty for just one afternoon. It wasn't entirely timidity which inspired this decision although I have been taking quite a lacing from letter writers and other clients in the last few days. I want to have the privilege, of talking about fish or

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r n-vers n r othr r neutral subjects every once and so o: n. And o I composed an entire column about f -rr. I was all ready to ship down to the office good m'. But then I looked at the newspapers lid Law and Order ed to San Francisco I read the story and s ’ r. hi all o - e r again. The piece about poker will have to be a shirt tail, if even that. a k a Citizens Xnt .Yen // I- AW and order re: orrd! Bu* this fs what I read _j under thr" very head: "Homes of supposed Con mum. ! - were visited and bricks tossed through •• d< with notes wrapped around them. The ret< s read We, the members of a committee of ed for 'he purpose of p ur £* in: tin cit" of Berkeley of all Communists, bolshevik ram al. agitators and other anti-government hen I notifj you that we are aware of the f-t' ti.a’ you are linked directly with this group.’ M< re than twenty places were visited by the brick squad.” Out of violence and threats against the majesty o! 'he government itself, as many pointed out, San F nuT-eo ha been restored to the law of the red ha.ter and tine order of the hysterical professional patrioteer. In private argument I have heard men say. "I think the . rrikrrs had a hell of a nerve to say that 111. ii n mant might stay open but this other one mu : remain closed." Not one of these men seemed to think it at all extraordinary or in any way nervy for vigilantes m leather coats to decide which citizens should be p* rmitted to remain within their own tj of San Francisco. Even vet thousands of soldiers and police arc on gti.ii(i under th< ostensible purpose of preserving the peace and I have yet to read of a single case in which anybody has been arrested or even rebuked for vigilante violence. a a a He Opposes Violence “ pvURING the night a fire of undetermined U origin virtually destroyed the plant of the TANARUS: i u.gle Prr where the Western Worker, Communist newspaper, is printed." There ’em to have been no policeman or soldier pr •nt to interfere with this enterprise in arson which might have set fire to the entire city. If any r.uker in Portland had heaved one-third of a brick in th' general direction of Senator Robert F. Wagner 'here would have been a rash of editorial com-mr-nt about Red revolution and the steps which must be used to pur it down. lin against violence. Possibly that is a nambypamby attitude, but at least I am logical. I don’t •:<c how anybody can be against the violence of • riser and quite indifferent to the violence of Hers and vigilantes. Moreover. I suggi r tl. tt ome ol my fellow opponents of violence i k. the trouble to examine the casualty lists from the various cities. For every policeman, soldier or strike breaker injured you will find at least twenty strikers and strike vmpathizers on the rolls. And a good many innocent bystanders as well. A man with a rifle and a bayonet has potentialities of violence which do not even lie within the powrr of the worker with a broken brick Look to the dead. There the story is told. The crucifixion of law and order lies upon the bayonets of the very men and powers who are sworn to preserve it. Poker isn't much of a game although I used to think so. Without conversation, puns, witty sayings and frequent rounds of drinks the pastime would be uiitjparable. Often I have seen a dealer in a stud :imr hold the entire company spellbound while he cm ■-nursed for ton or twenty minutes upon some music he had heard lately or the technique of one of the newer painters out of Paris. And all the time !•• i r.'cis lay idle and neglected while the pivot man us eloquence and fine phrases more •u:.cum than full houses. Eventually somebody would Mil and we would return unwillingly to the cull routine of trying to win each other's money. It ' not interest which bound us to thp game but merely dear tradition. There isn't room for any mope. Cop bv I'r.’.'fd Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS I ISIIBKIN

IT i.' iio'v well e.lablished that your size depends to . considerable extent on the activities of your uitarv eland, the small ovoid body at the base of \our skull In other words, you are largely what vour glands make you. S nc is also well known that the glands control to a considerable extent the activities of the hu--t.n body and the chemical changes that go on r.hm ;• some studies recently made in Boston of the metab'lism or chemical changes going on in the ! -r es ol five midgets, a giant and a "fat lady" are f xceedingly int crest mg. Dr. A \V. Rowe, who made these studies, checked idles made recently of an abnorr :.r bov and two women with retarded physical (\e\ . lopmen: All of the dwarfs were normal at weighing about seven pounds, but all failed to v .-iter the ages of 6or 7. None of them has ,-eemcd to have matured sexually. XT a a r T''HE fat lady had a father who weighed 235 I pounds and a mother who weighed 400 pounds. t-.h- wa> the only child. She weighed sixteen pounds at birth, ana at the time of the examination, when w as 24 years old. she weighed almost 400 pounds. The a:ant had a number of tall ancestors, but nobody as tall as he was. He was of average size : t birth. At the age ot 26. however, he was 7 feet 8 inches tall, ar.d weighed about 358 pounds. Most of these persons had a fairly good mentality. \VI. n the chemical changes going on in their bodies I tbey were found to reflect to a considerable extent the condition of the glands. The dwarfs tended to have a low blood pressure. The fat persons and the giants tended to have a higher blood pressure. a a a THE temperature of the giant was slightly below normal at all times Thus the chemical changes ::t the bodies reflected the physical condition associated with the abnormality. This type of study establishes again the importance of the glands of the body as the regulating mechanism for ns activities. We are what the glands make us. New discoveries made in medicine are develop.p.g substitutes for glands which fail to function satisfactorily. Other technics permit the removal surly of port or.s of glands when there is overfuncuon. O: the greatest importance, however is having a ck *r understanding of the extent to which the thyroid gland the parathyroids, the pituitary, the adrenal glands and the pancreas are performing their work These measurements may be made and frequently v < ’.d information of the greatest value for eontroilrg not only the size and shape of the body, but ai.sp for maintaining it in health. >

MAKING IT HARDER FOR CRIME Feeney Perfects Telephone System to Hook Up State Police Forces •

BY BASIL GALLAGHER Timm Staff Writer HELLO. Allen county sheriff speaking.” The sheriff, leaning back in his chair, listens intently for a minute. The receiver crackles in his ear as an hysterically excited phone operator tells him: "Sheriff, this Is the State bank in Ft. Wayne. Three men just held up the bank, killed our cashier, and escaped with $50,000.” The sheriff swings around in his chair, yells to his deputies and hurries out of the office. An assistant quickly scans a small white card bearing a number of squares in which telephone numbers are listed. He gets busy with the phone. In ten minutes Indiana is surrounded by a network of police calls humming back and forth over the wires while possemen, state and city police, federal agents and all law enforcement officers within the state boundaries are making their way to highways and other vantage points in the hunt to apprehend the perpetrators of the bank holdup at Ft. Wayne. This is an imaginary picture of what Al Feeney, state safety director, expects from his new telephone trap for perpetrators of major crimes. The system went into effect in the state yesterday. a o a Harassed by criticism of his state police force since the forays of the Dillinger “terror mob” have made Indiana a byword for crime, Director Feeney first devoted all his efforts to procure radios for the use of the state police. The former Notre Dame football star went out himself and raised $30,000 from private citizens for the proposed radio system. This was to be matched by a like amount from the state. Red tape and resultant delay have halted the plan and today the radio still is a dream which Feeney cherishes for the use of his force. Meanwhile a growing list of major crimes, particularly bank holdups, forced Feeney to act. In a series of conferences with bankers, sheriffs, police chiefs and other interested parties he finally evolved the system which went into effect throughout the ’state today. Each bank in the state was marked out by Mr. Feeney on a large map in his office. The distance from the bank to the nearest police station or sheriff's office was noted. Then taking a stack of small

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON. July 21.—Behind the sudden sending of Senator Bob Wagner to the Pacific coast as labor trouble man were two factors. One was the fact that the President, fishing in Pacific waters, has been extremely nervous about the San Francisco strike. The other is the fact that Miss Perkins, sitting at one end of the long distance phone in Washington, has been equally nervous. Both the secretary of labor and the President, to a certain extent are “on the spot.” Miss Perkins is the first woman cabinet member in history. For her a major catastrophe like the San Francisco situation is a hard thing to live down.

Roosevelt is in somewhat the same predicament. He has given more concessions to labor than any previous President. And because of this he has been criticised severely. For him to be on a fishing trip at this vital time, could be used as good ammunition by political enemies. Asa result radios between Miss Perkins and the U. S. S. Houston have been hot and frequent. Both finally decided that a man of Wagner's prestige and ability might help the situation. a a a ALABAM AS Representative William B. Bankhead, father of actress Tallulah and one of the few really able Democratic leaders, was reminiscing about campaign experiences. In 1930 Bankhead took the stump for his senatorial brother, John H.. running against "TomTom" Heflin. John and Bill toured the state together in a car. One day, on a lonely country road they encountered a young farmer, stopped for a chat. They introduced themselves, and Bill explained their mission, asked the native to vote for his brother. The young fellow was noncommittal. "I want you to come over and hear him talk,” Bill urged. "John is talking tomorrow night in Jasper, and you don’t want to miss it. He is a whole lot more capable than I am.” This last was with a disarming smile. "Yes." was the steady reply. "That is just what my Pap says, and 1 reckon Pap knows what he is talkin' about." a a a \TO President in history has 1 taken such pains with his tons of personal mail as Franklin D. Roosevelt. Lucy Potts of Center City writes to him: “My husband is dead, my son has paralysis, and my mortgage is about to be foreclosed” . . . Herbert Strakey of Spokane writes: “I am getting to the age where I like to go out with girls and my father's car is old and worn out. What can you do to help me?” . . . Archey Foster of Nashua. N. H., writes: "Are you so ungrateful as to have forgotten that it was 1 who originally suggested to you the idea for the CCC?" Letters like these pour in on the President or Mrs. Roosevelt at the rate of five hundred a day. But the amazing thing is not their number, nor the fact that the President makes use of them to keep his ear to the ground, but the fact that they are all given attention and reply. No administration ever has spent so much time and money on Tom Dick, and Harry. To reply to the avalanche is the job of Dr. Joseph J. Mayer who sits at a desk like an amiable school teacher with a class of sixty stenographers before him. Dr. Mayer says only 2 per cent of the letters are useless. Most

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Upper—Left, the looted bank makes three telephone calls as shown in the diagram. One is to the city police, one to the sheriff and one to state police headquarters in Indianapolis. Right, police headquarters, Ft. Wayne, in this'example, gets a call from the bank and immediately plugs in to the state police barracks and the sheriff of Allen county. Lower —Left, the sheriff already has heard from the robbed bank, but he also gets a call from the state police, Then he gets busy. In rapid succession, he calls sheriffs of adjoining counties, authorities in bordering states and the state police. Right, the telephone operator at state police barracks will be a busy man when a major crime occurs. The boxes in the diagram, each bearing a vital telephone number, must be called immediately. „

! white cards, facsimiles of which are reproduced herewith, Mr. Feeney went through the telephone books of the state, carefully marking the police numbers of the territories in which the banks are located. A card was made out for each bank with the telephone numbers of the city police, the county I sheriff and the nearest barracks I of the Indiana state police set j down. a tt tt A SIMILAR, card bearing more numbers was made out for | the sheriff. On his card, the telephone numbers of sheriffs in ad- ! joining counties, police or nearby towns, state police barracks, headi quaners and other vital telephone numbers were listed. Widely scattered Indiana state

\ of them seek advice or help which j can be given. "Anyhow,” he says,. "this is a democracy. People have a right to appeal to their government. Ana w ; e will tell them a darn sight more than 'Your letter will be given due consideration.’ ” a a a WALL STREET lost another skirmish with the Brain Boys when Judge Johnny Burns w’as made general counsel of the new stock exchange board. Johnny Burns—only 33—is the youngest judge ever to serve on a superior court in Massachusetts. He is an amazing person. Like the beloved ex-Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he jumped from a professorship in the Harvard law school to a high court position. Recently he was mentioned as Massachusetts gubernatorial timber. But from Wall Street's point of view, he is bad medicine. Bril- | liant, absolutely fair, he believes in strict regulation. Ben Cohen, who helped write j the Stock Exchange aot. had been j first choice as general counsel. ! Russell Leffingwell, J. P. Morgan | partner, paid Cohen the tribute as being the "most amazing legislative drafter” he had ever known. Wall Street was praying that ; Cohen would not take the job. Although he yielded to these prayers, he did so to take a more important job as co-ordinator of 1 Roosevelt's new social instirance plan. And Wall Street will not be one iota better off under the whip of Judge Burns. ! Copvmht. 1934 bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) SULLIVAN APPROVES CAFE CLOSING BILL Publication Starts. Takes Effect in 10 Days. Henry O. Goett, city clerk, today prepared to publish the new beer regulation ordinance which will require places selling alcoholic beverages to stop sales after 1 a. m. The ordinance, signed yesterday by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, will become effective ten days after its legal publication. It also prohbiits music or entertainment in beer taverns between the hours of 1 a. m. and 6 a. m. weeks days and from 1 a. m. to 2 p. m. Sundays. The ordinance applies only to the territory within the city limits. Mine Worker Killed in Aecident j Bu t nited Prc** PRINCETON. Ind.. July 21. Willard Young. 26. Francisco, was instantly killed yesterday when crushed by cars while working in the Kings Station coal mine near here. The widow and two children sur--1 vive.

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! police barracks were given their ; little white cards bearing tele--1 phone numbers of state police in bordering states as well as a long ■ list of sheriffs, city police and other officials to notify in case of a crime. With the cards ready, Mr. Feeney's next and most important job was to enlist the co-operation of the banks, sheriffs and police. In a personal tour of the state he got a hearty reception from all. One hundred 'per cent co-opera-tion was promised. Theoretically the plan should work as follows: Immediately after a stickup in a bank the cashier calls the three numbers specified on his card — sheriff, city police and state police. The sheriff calls his numbers.

VERDICT CALMS ANN SANDSTROM Expected Prison Sentence, She Says; Wanted to * Plead Guilty. Bn Times Special. CHARLESTON, 111., July 21. Ccmbing her hair in her cell in the Coles county jail today, Mrs. Ann Sandstrom, Indianapolis. Ind., who received a one-to-fourteen-year sentence for manslaughter in connection with the slaying of her sweetheart, Carl Thompson, Indianapolis casket salesman, said she was not disappointed, had in fact expected a prison penalty. Preparing for a trip to the woman's reformatory in Dwight, 111., to begin her term. Mrs. Sandstrom revealed that she had been willing to plead guilty to manslaughter charge to save the exhausting ordeal of a trial. “I never expected to be let off,” she said. "You can have no idea what it is like to sit there and look at twelve men and know they hold your life in their hands,” she added. "I tried not to look at them. I thought the jury might think I wanted sympathy. I have heard that the Dwight prison is a nice place and I won’t mind it at all. I'll get along all right. I mean to be a model prisoner.” Ten ballots were taken before the jury returned a verdict yesterday morning, it was learned. They stood nine for manslaughter and three for murder in the third count — which carries fourteen years or more.

SIDK GLANCES By George Clark

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The city police call theirs. The state police do the rest. The system has been worked out so that if any policeman forgets to call a number he will be called by the party he should have called. In ten minutes state police headquarters will have a report on all the calls. "The day of pursuing bandits is over,” says Mr. B'eeney. “If robbers have a fast car, and a few minutes’ head start, how can the police hope to overtake them? “I propose a plan for systematized effort in which we all work together with as little duplication of effort as possible. The point is to surround the bandits. This can be done by spreading information to strategic points.”

ROUNDING ROUND rp TT Y? \rpP P) Q WITH WALTER 1 1 liflVO D . HICKMAN

AS people today are asking what to see or not to see on the movie screen, the American Society for Visual Education of Washington is making a survey of the entire field.

The society not only is calling upon all groups interested in better entertainment to express their opinion on the subject so a definite program may be arranged. The society has asked this department to publish the following statement: "In response to demands for a central clearing house for public opinion in connection with the present critical situation confronting the motion picture industry the American Society for Visual Education has volunteered for this service. "An invitation is extended to the general public, individuals, organizations, groups or other bodies, to communicate with the society’s offices. 1622 H street, N. W., with the idea of forming a compendium of opinion from which to develop a possible method for procedure in this crisis. "The services of the society’s trained staff will be placed at the disposal of the general public, a service backed by four years of experience in the study and analysis of the educational value of the films. "Communications may be in such form as best may suit those initiating their views, and it is hoped to be able to develop, from this mass of opinion, some concrete idea of just what are the main criticisms of the films of today, and if possible to develop therefrom some comprehensive plan for future wholesome devel-

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opment, not necessarily of the film industry as a whole, but mainly for those propositions identified as pertaining principally to the educational angle. “For the guidance of those who may wish to communicate with the society, letters either may be addressed to national headquarters in Washington or to Colonel Walter L. Bell, treasurer of the society, 201 East Forty-ninth street, New York City. Major John Stuart Hunt, corresponding secretary, is in charge of the Washington office. “While it is not definitely known just how long this present survey will require, there is no intention of curtailing the time providing there is a prevailing response from the public. For this reason the officers of the society wish to make it known that they invite such comment, and that any and all communications addressed to the society will be given proper attention by its trained, technical staff.”

STATE POLICE GET PERMITJ-OR RADIO Federal Board Authorizes Operation. Bn Times Special WASHINGTON, July 21.—Indiana's state police radio system, for which there has been much agitation in recent months throughout the Hoosier state, apeared one step closer reality today with authorization by the new federal communications system for the state safety department to operate a fifty-watt unit to be known as W9XBU. This shortwave station will be on 1.634 kilocycles under the licensing provision.

AAA BEAU BRUMMELL, ONCE DIRT FARMER, MILKED ‘5-A-DAY’

Heated senatorial objections on frequent occasions that the agriculture adjustment administration was not made up of real "dirt farmers” were recalled here Thursday during the AAA's hearing at the federal building on charges against the Greenwood Dairy Farms, Inc. C. Osmond Hyde, precise and impeccably dressed AAA counsel, placed a grizzled farmer on the stand as a government witness and questioned him for fifteen minutes on various aspects of marketing milk. Then he dismissed h:m. "Say. young fellow,” the farmer observed in obvious admiration, "you know quite a bit about the milking business, where did you pick it up?” "Well.” answered Mr. Hyde, "I was born and reared on a farm. I used to get up at daybreak and I used to milk five cows every day.”

Fdir Enough IBMKffi NEW YORK. N. Y„ July 21.—The attempt of th# Germans to hit upon a national cheer, on the order of the American varsity yell, has produced rather grim results. Out of 3.599 specimens submitted in a contest, four have been retained for further consideration. As translated by the Associated Press they are: Hail, victory. Hail victory’, Germania. Rah-rah. Germania. German might beats all Eagle soars. Germany wins.

The other 3,595 must have been pretty bad. Like humor, a college cheer is or it ain’t. The varsity cheer is an American institution. It originated a:, Yale when William Lyon Pnelps and Alonzo A. Stags were undergraduates. Although the cry of hip-hip-hoorav had been familiar for a long time at regimental kegparties and the annual banquets of the honorable company of hide and tallow mongers in England, the varsity cheer of the kind which Pope Pius heard from the Annapolis midshipmen in the Vatican

Tuesday had its beginning in the innocent prattl# of* a group of freshmen at Yale about 1885. The freshmen had been watching the varsity football team at practice and on their way back from the field fell to chanting the frog-chorus of Aristophanes’. This amused the freshmen and they repeated the cry of Brck-ek-ek-ek, Co-ax, co-ax the next day. b n a The English Couldn't THE next time the varsity team played a game, the freshmen ganged up .and did it again, and the cry spread. Thereafter some genius formulated the yell, tacked three sharp "Yales” on the end and handed it on down to succeeding generations of Yale-rahs, in its present official version. I know this because Professor Phelps told me about it. The English have no varsity yell. Professor Howard Savage, of the Carnegia Foundation, who spent a long time squinting at English student life to obtain material for a report which now is to be found in certain newspaper morgues, discovered that the English informality at sport precludes concerted, regimented cheering. An individual student might pause now and again in his stroll along the side-line at a varsity game, remove his pipe from his mouth and exclaim, “Now then, come along," but this was the English equivalent of a vast rumbling crowd-howl. Professor Savage also heard occasional remarks of “House. House. House,” which, in the case of an English student, amounted to hysteria. There were no acrobats in white pants to tell the English students when to say, “Now, then, come along,” or "House. House. House.” They uttered these remarks at will. tt tt Here’s Tiro Models THE American varsity cheer’s greatest virtue is its fine intelligence as indicated by the text of some of the famous, standard yells. The best of them all, of course, is the one which goes: Ala veevo; ala vivo; ala veevo-vivo-vum. Boom, get a rat-trap, bigger than a cat-trap. Boom, get a rat-trap, bigger than a cat-trap. Yea, team-team-team. Another excellent specimen is the osky-wow-wow yell which seems to have been composed by some unsung genius at the University of Illinois. It ha* tempted many other schools to the sin of plagiarism. The osky-wow-wow yell goes: Osky-wow-wow. Skinny wow-wow. Beat Chicago (or Purdue or lowa as the may be). Wow. • There is a book in the library giving the text of these and many other standard American college yells and instructions for executing pretty designs with colored yarn and cardboard squares in the grand stands. It is well worth not reading, although the Germans, since they have determined to have a yell might profit by a few minutes among its pages. Up to now they have missed the spirit entirely. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

ECONOMISTS and statisticians have held tha center of the stage in discussions of national planning, but Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and chairman of President Roosevelt’s scientific advisory board, sees room for the physicists as well in the spotlight. Dr. Compton, who formerly was professor of physics at Princeton university, believes that there is plenty oi work for the physicist to do. Incidentally, he has begun to do his share as chairman of the scientific advisory board, which "President Roosevelt set up to advise the government on the work of its various scientific bureaus. “It is assumed that the objectives of national planning are, broadly speaking, the material, intellectual and spiritual welfare of the people,” Dr. Compton say "More specifically, it aims at genereral and steady employment of desirable types and with adequate remuneration, at efficient utilization and conservation of natural resources, at the use of leisure time in ways which will be beneficial both individually and socially and at a wise balance between individual opportunity on the one hand am' proper social control on the other. Toward these objectives the science of physic* should contribute directly or indirectly in a fundamental way.” a a a DR. COMPTON believes that his claim is justified by the record of the past. ‘Historically,” he continues, “we note that the science of physics has given birth to nearly all of those ideas, processes and agencies which have brought man to an understanding of the material universe and to the use of its forces for his own purposes. "Physics has produced civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, a large part of chemical engineering, modern metallurgy, electrical communications, refrigeration, heating, ventilating, automotive and aeronautical engineering. and the countless products of those arts which have revolutionized modem life, not only in its material aspects but also in its intellectual, economic and social relationships. Physics has not only originated these things, but it continues to develop them. a a a PHYSICS is finding constantly extended application in medicine, Dr. Compton continues. “It has created anew chemistry,” he adds, "and many believe that it is now on the verge of creating anew biology. Os all the sciences, it is now developing at relatively the most rapid pace.” In setting up a scheme of national planning, Dr. Compton says that the development of physics may be hindered or accelerated, and if accelerated, the acceleration may be made selective, that is, confined to certain branches of physics. "The development of physics may purposely oe hindered,” he says, "as by reduction of funds for research or by anti-educational propaganda. Some people suspect that this should be done in order to allow' some other aspects of life to catch up to a state of equilibrium.

Questions and Answers

Q —How many wives did Henry VIII of England have? A—Six. Q —Does the meridian of Greenwich cross tha equator? A—Yes. Q —How many miners, helpers and loaders are working in coal mines in the United States? A—The 1930 census enumerated 114,592, but tha number'is constantly fluctuating.

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