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H-Seems io Me HEVWOOP BBOUN NTFTW YORK Aug 1 A man m a birch bark * (An *• b- :n mid-Atlantic would b* a fool to laugh over the fact that the only other vessel jn sigh! was a leaky old tub And yet. that is preciveh .the attitude liken by many commentator* in pointing with pride to the weakness of the League of Nations. No reasonable man can deny the fact that the League is feeble. I always have felt that i f was lac?;* s, to '•ay the least, for American politicians and publicists to chortle about this

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• -hore. Isolation is not a bulwark against troubled waters I think that in the light of present European turmoil pa trio 1 ic Americans well might pray each -t lor the < lea'ion of an effective league as the ore-erver of the peace Perhaps it will be necessary to her-n again and ra:-e a *riKture from the ground To m* i’ urns that the only rational rejoinder •n the declaration ‘The League is dead,” is an equally emphatic. Long live the League. ’ m m m Division m Dictator's Hands g ACKIN’G a league of proper utility what ha\e *e got? I quote from an all too complacent editorial m the New York Sun: The V •. legation in Bnlin.” sa’.s the editorial commentator, offers the opinion that, in the e ent of ‘special complications’ in the Austrian . . League of Nations is 'the only competent authonty to decide the Austrian problem as an m’ernational problem.’ This is a view which would h i •.. oeen accepted seriously just after the league was formed The covenant of the league described , th< dUtH e-f its members when war threatened. But a.v the years passed and the regrettable impotentof the league was realized, men forgot about those bold articles which had seemed to e the peace of Europe. The Yugoslav statement. of course, is designed as a warning to Italy ad warily But the truth us that the outer world relies more on Mussolini than on the league to preserve Aiustria from further dusastrr. So let us look bark and consider the net result of ihe work done by Borah and his buddies in throttling the I-eague of Nations. Instead of a world parliament which could command the respect and obedience of Europe we have left the decision of peace or war to the Fascist dictator of a country swaveri by its own hopes and fears and the jealousies of all its IM This is the shining achievement of the group of die-hards who destroyed the project brought home by Woodrow Wilson. ana Il f Must Have a League 'T'HERE was much which was palpably wrong JL with that project even in the days when high hopes were held lor its future. Some of its essentials were tragically inept and wrong and muddled. It was. if you like, a poor thing, but even in the eyes of its most, bitter critics could that league have been described as a more unfortunate arrangement than the setup under which Mussolini is to decide right out of his own head whether we are to have peace or war. And I mean -we.'’ I take no stock in the contention that had we joined the League we would have been involved in one controversy after another and that now through our isolation we sit safe and sound at the far edge of the Atlantic protected from alarms oil any conflict. Can any sane man believe that a general European conflict will not bring the issue straight to our doorstep? lam not a defeatist. It is posible for us to stay out but there is no point in minimizing the danger. There will be persuasion and propiyfanda of the most tempting sort. We will have to fight in order not to fight. And I think that it is not too late even yet to turn the vials of scorn on all those politicians and publishers who said. Let ’em stew in their own mice.” Already the fumes of that bloody broth are seeping through our tight closed windows. There will have to be another League This is the time to mo\e for it. I know of not a single problem national or international which ran be solved by the simple formula of doing nothing. ■ Corvricht. 1934. bv The Timesl

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

ONE of the triumphs of modern physical science is the large amount of evidence which has been accumulated in the last few decades about the size and shape of atoms and molecules, the particles of which matter is composed. The triumph is particularly great because these particles are too sm;.U to be seen even with the most powerful microscope. According to modern chemical theory there are as many different kinds of atoms as there are chemical elements. These atoms m their turn are put together to make up the molecules of the various chemical compounds. Most substances, as we know them, however, require still another stage of organization, namely, the organization of the molecules into ultra-microscopic crystals Thus, for example, one atom of silicon unite* with two atoms of oxygen to form a molecule of silicon dioxide. But the smallest bit of quartz which can exist is a tiny crystal composed of three molecules of silicon dioxide. Recent workers, including Sir William Bragg and his son. Professor W I Bragc. in England, and Dr. : I 1 in this country, have brought to light many details about the organization of molecules. a a a \GOOD m.uiv years ago Lord Kelvin gave a . rough scale representation of a water molecule, m order to help us visualize its size says Prof. Edward Mack Jr of Ohio State university. He said that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth, every molecule would have a size somewhere between that of a buckshot and a cricket ball. In Lord Kelvin's day it was customary to think of a molecule as a sphere—a tiny billiard bail.' At the present time our knowledge of molecules is so much more detailed that we are quite sure that, although the atoms generally do show a spherical symmetry to most of our probes and tests, the molecules especially of orcanic subtances. seldom appear spherical " They have characteristic skeletal shapes of their own. and in fact appear to be shaped very much as the structural formulas of the orcanic chemist would indicate Such structural formulas have been worked out. of course, by purely chemical means." m m 9 IT is possible to use X-rays to investigate molecular structure because of the extreme shortness of the rays. Visible light can not be used because the waves of light are themselves longer than the atoms. The structure of molecules recently has proved the key to the behavior of many different substances. This 1* particularly true of the behavior of oil films. “It Is well konw-n." ays Professor Mack, "that if gasoline or kerosene or paraffin oli. or in general any other mineral oil. is placed on a water surface, it will spread fairly readily to give a pool or lens of oil If. however, a vegetable or animal oil. such as raptor oil. peanut oil. cottonseed oil. sperm oil. or lard oil. etc . is dropped on to a clean surface of water. s film of an entirely different sort is produced. This difference in behavior of the two sorts of oil is dno to a difference in the nature of thetr molecules The molecules of a mineral oil consists of a long chain of caroon atoms with hydrogen atoms auacheu to every carbon atom.

condition. After all, it 1S singularly graceless to plunge a dagger into a man * back and then remark, "what’s the matter with you, old man? You don't seem yourself. Something vou ate. perhaps? I rim at a loss to understand what possible benefit flows to us on account of the asthmatic condition of Geneva. By now we should have outgrown any ancient notions that distress and chaos m Europe are of no possible concern to us. On the contrarv. we ought to know that even a wide ocean become.-, no more than a millpond in carrying ripples of

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Ft. Peck Dam Will Save Rich Soil From Ravages of Missouri River

Thi* i lh third of four tori on tho rrtat power. irriration. and naviaation prop'll of thr northwest, which are to be inspected bv President Roosevelt on his wav bark to Washington. 4 BY WILLIS THORNTON NF.A Service Staff Writer. C GLASGOW, Mont., Aug. I.—At Ft. Peck, United States army engif neers are going back to the days of the Mound Builders. The great dam that will halt the upper Mississippi near here amounts to building a massive artificial hill four miles long, 230 feet high, and nearly half a mile wide at the base. It won’t look much like a dam when President Roosevelt passes through on his short motor trip of twenty-three miles to the dam site lrom this tiny town of 2 000 which is the metropolis of all the surrounding maze of buttes and "bad lands.” Aside from the branch-line railroad built to join the dam site to the mam line of the Northern Pacific at Wiota. and the miUion-dollar railway trestle that had be set up on piling across the muddy Missouri, the site presents a pretty desolate scene even today.

The jackrabbits, coyotes, antelope, and timid deer have mostly been driven out by the axemen who went through the section above the dam site clearing brush and spindling second-growth trees and leaving an absolutely barren waste where the huge lake will bark up 175 miles behind its earthen barrier. u n a THE few settlers were easy to displace, for their farms were isolated, and they readily agreed to sell out to Uncle Sam. They sold out and went to work on the dam. So did 5.000 others, mostly natives of eastern Montana, who needed work badly, what with drouth and short crops and low prices. Labor actually on the site Is getting more than half of the money spent, and another quarter goes to labor indirectly affected. Many of them live now in New Deal, the town which has b-3en mushrooming below the dam site. It has no mayor, health officer, or police, but it has a "head man,” C. W. Whisennand, a farmer, in this section for many years. To date there are a hardware store, drug store, bakery, garage, laundry, service station, barber shop, meat market, two restaurants and a theater. New Deal is separate, of course, from the regular government “town” of Ft. Peck, which has been built as official quarters for foremen, engineers and laborers on the dam. ana HOW came army engineers to choose this desolate spot tor a $60,000,000 dam? As with all big dam developments, nature herself

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP bub a tt a By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Aug. I—The government starts work this week on a formidable list of problems it must solve before it experiments with unemployment insurance. It must decide how an insurance system can be made effective while more than 4.000.000 families are on relief and eight and a half million men and women are entirely without work. It must develop and improve its employment service until it is capable of playing a major role in administering unemployment insurance.

FERA is starting on the first task. It has announced a survey of persons on relief rolls to determine their color, their sex, occupation and capacity to earn a living at the present time. While insurance was not mentioned in its announcement the study is regarded as a necessary preliminary. The second task was suggested by Industrial Relations Counselors Inc. of New York in making public a survey of the employment exchange system of Great Brita.n contrasted with this country's employment service. Great Britain's employment exchanges administer the test by which workmen qualify for insurance benefit payments. If a man is unemployed he must register at the employment exchange. It tries to find him another job. Only when it certifies that he is idle through no lack of willingness to work is he eligible for payments. a a a A THIRD problem concerns the necessity for establishing wage standards in each industry as a measure of willingness to work. British workers, without losing the right to benefit payments. may reject work in plants where wages are lower than the prevailing level for that occupation and where labor disputes are in progress Establishment of such standards here mav require general revision of NRA codes. FFR A particularly wants to know how many of the persons on relief rolls are able to support themselves at commercial jobs if these become available, how many will depend permanently on “made work” provided by the government, and how many will be dependent permanently and completely. It will study the question of occupation shifts in industry, an important factor in administration of any unemplovment insurance system Great Britain found that to keep its insurance fund from bankruptcy it had to save large numbers from permanent unemployment by training them for different work. Possible improvement of the employment service has been under consideration since its treatment of workers was criticised sharply by one of the District of Columbia commissioners who spent his vacation making incognito tests of it. a a a IN its report. Industrial Relations Counselors Inc. stresses the need of strong service since "success of .the social insurance ssytem the President has forecast must depend largely on effective placement and assumption of much of the administrative work of unemployment insurance by the United States Employment Service.” It adds: “The organization feels that American experience with state employment offices over a

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really chooses the site. And this one was built to order. A connecting range, of buttes parallels the Missouri for miles above this point, far from the river banks. They converge on the river and here the Missouri flows through a bottle-neck between them. All the engineers have to do is close that neck with dirt, and the natural basin behind it will fill with water. The basin will be irregular, with great arms extending back mto the hills, and the newly formed lake will have a shore-line of 2,500 miles—more than the entire Atlantic seacoast. You'll be able to see it on maps of the United States. aa \ a THE Missouri nere at its headwaters brings down each spring the melting snow from the eastern slope of the Rockies. It comes down with a rush, washing badly the lands hereabouts, and giving an uprush to the spring floods of the lower Missouri and Mississippi. Many a good farm goes down the muddy river every spring to become useless sandbars farther down stream. The Ft. Peck dam will put a stop to much of this. It will catch those spring floods and hold them. Then in the dry summer, engineers will let the water out fast enough to insure a nine-foot navigation channel all the way to Yankton, S. D. Next—Putting a harness about the head and shoulders of “Old Man River” himself—the Upper Mississippi project.

period of forty years has been none too encouraging and has raised some doubt as to the practicality of building up an efficient federal-state employment service under the act.” Postponement of unemployment insurance legislation until next winter gave the administration six months in which to get these preliminary problems out of the way and was probably planned for that purpose. Great Britain started its employment exchange system two years in advance of unemployment insurance. BANKRUPTCY TRUSTEE NAMED BY BALTZELL Receiver Selected for Post in Phone Company Reorganization. George Barnard, receiver for the Southern Telegraph and Telephone Company, yesterday was appointed trustee in bankruptcy for the company by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell at a reorganization hearing in federal court. Future hearings on the reorganization of the company will be held before Carl Wilde, special master in chancery. Judge Baltzell announced. He set Sept. 15 as the latest date to press claims against the company. The Southern Telegraph and Telephone company has its offices in I Seymour. Ind. ROBINSON WILL SPEAK AT WOODMEN'S PICNIC Senator on Program for Outing at N'oblosville Sunday The Modern Woodmen of Amer- | ica in central Indiana will hold Their annual basket picnic Sunday in Forest Park, Noblesville, with Senator Arthur R. Robinson as nrinicipal speaker. Other speakers will include J. D. Valz. Woodmen director, and George E. Hopkins, state manager. The arrangements committee, which has arranged a program of games, coni tests and drills by Marion county j drill teams, is made up of J. Rayi mond Trout. F. S. Kirtlev, Roland ! Vomehm. Norman Nelson. C. W. Par. H. D. Patterson. J H Hale. V. 1 Irwin. L. Zimmerman and F. Kleffer. I—PENNSY ANNOUNCES MORE COOLED TRAINS Air-Conditioned Service Put on Additional Routes. | The Pennsylvania railroad, which {claims to operate the largest fleet of air-conditioned trains in the world, today announced additions to airconditioned service between Indianapolis and Chicago. Indianapolis and Columbus Indianapolis and Cincinnati and Indianapolis and Louisville. More than eight hundred air-conditioned cars already operate daily in the Pennsylvania system.

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HIGH SPEED PLANES LINK CITYTO COAST Luxurious Douglas Airliners to Go Into Service. Indianapolis airplane patrons now may ride luxurious, high-speed TWA-Douglas airliners to the west coast on anew Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., schedule effective today, linking the east and west coasts. Local air passengers can fly tt> Kansas City in Ford planes and there transfer to the Douglas planes for the remainder of the journey. In a few weeks persons flying from Indianapolis may be able to board a Douglas airliner at the local airport. Every afternoon at 4 a huge Douglas fourteen-passenger airliner will depart from New York and Los Angeles. The west-bound plane, which stops at Chicago, Kansas City and Albuquerque, will arrive in Los Angeles at 7 the next morning. The east-bound transcontinental flight serving the same cities en route, will arrive in New York at 10:55 a. m. (E. S. TANARUS.) “Love Thy Neighbor” Banned Bff ( nitr<l Press LONDON, Aug. I.—The British Broadcasting Company today ordered crooners not to sing the song, "Love Thy Neighbor,” because of its biblical reference. Dance bands may play it, however.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“The men get raises because they have families. The boss doesn’t it.costsjus just to.keepj)U£hair in shape.”

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen -

WASHINGTON, Aug. I—To a certain extent, Cordell Hull is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea regarding his much cherished tariff reciprocity treaties. If he negotiates them, he touches off a certain amount of political repercussion at home. Some people’s toes are bound to be stepped on by reduced tariffs. There will be howls of anguish and protest registered at the polls next November. But if he doesn t negotiate them it is almost, as bad. There has been so much talk about reciprocity and its advantages, that people expect something. The President received unprecedented power for tariff bargaining. People want to know what he has done with it.

So either way, the mountaineer secretary of state has a hot potato. In this dilema. he is picking a middle course. He is wisely refraining from such dynamiteladen treaties as that with Argentina, which produces the same farm products as the midwest, but is concentrating on such noncompetitive countries as Brazil, Colombia, Cuba. ana GENIAL, cigar-chewing Major George Berry, division administrator of the NRA. and president of the Pressman's Union, relates this latest Blue Eagle story. A visitor driving along a southern road encountered a darky. With the President’s suggestion of comparing present economic conditions with those of a year ago in mind, he stopped. "How are things coming around here?” he asked. “All right. I guess, boss.” “How is the NRA getting on?”

“Well, now, I'll tell you boss. It's this way. I’ve been so busy with the KKK, I haven't had any time to think any about this NRA.” a a a AMERICAN representatives in Great Britain have reported on a speech made by J. H. Thomas, secretary for the Dominions, which was not carried in the British press and which warned of the inevitability of world war. Thomas gave as his reason not merely the fact that Germany was arming to the teeth, but the “unreasonableness” of France. Incidentally he said: “America is on the brink of bankruptcy. There is a grave danger of revolution and the U. S. A. is on the verge of chaos.” a a a THE mail bag: I. C., Philadelphia—Only five citizens are necessary to organize one of the national mortgage associations authorized by the new housing act. If they can raise a capital stock of not less than $5,000 subscribed at par they can obtain a charter permitting them to make loans up to ten times the aggregate par value of the capital stock . . . T. C.. Miami Beach, Fla.—The ! federal government drive for de- ! linquent taxes, begun last year when Secretary Morgenthau took | office, has netted the treasury over $75,000,000. Thpse collections come from such varied classes as bankers, racketeers, wage earners, business men. both big and small . . . E. C., Mobile, Ala.—Both Mrs. Roosevelt and her daughter. Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dali, smoke, but not in public. Mrs. Hattie Caraway, Arkansas' United States senator, does not smoke. She has no objection, however, to other : wompn doing so. ! i Copyright. 1934 bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc i OXYGEN-TENT BOYIS GIVEN CHANCE TO LIVE 7-Year-Old Lad Winning in 88-Day Death Battle. By United Press PHILADELPHIA. Aug. I.—Little 7-year-old Russell 'Buddy) Page, who has lived in an oxygen tent for { eigty-eight days, today had a fighting chance for life. Buddy's condition improved ! slightly after he was taken to the Jewish hospital here from his home at Edgewater Park, N. J. For the seventeen-mile trip to the hospital ar> oxygen tent was installed in a moving van. when it was found an ambulance was too small to accommodate the tent. En route three stops were necessary to replenish the oxygen supply. For the last three months science has been wagmg a battle to keep the boy alive. Three blood transfusions have been given Buddy. i

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Fair Enough MSIMH NEW YORK. Aug. I—The unfortunate Governor of North Dakota. William H. Lancer, has been guilty of an offense which was not stated in the indictment. Mr. Langer officially was convicted of soliciting political funds from federal relief workers. These relief workers were being paid with funds provided by a Democratic administration and it was to be expected that they would feel more or less grateful to the party from which the blessing flowed. For a Governor, who is a sort of Republican and cer-

tainly no Democrat, to chisel any money out of these potential converts and use it against the Democratic party was worse than illegal. It was unpatriotic because his conduct was against the interests of the party whose policies represent the salvation of the country. The precise character of Mr. Langer's party is hard to state. It is not pure Republican, but you can be quite sure that it is not Democratic. If it had been Democratic there would have been no need for his party to chisel off a portion of the relief funds. The Democratic party is entitled to the full

political benefit of all such relief and need not resort to chiseling to get it. When another party chisels, however, that is a clear case of political poaching and a blow to the party which is charged with the duty of bringing about recovery. It is a very wrong way of doing. a a a All on lhe Up and I'p THE conduct of the administration has been strictly ethical throughout the New Deal. Although Mr. Farley has found thousands of jobs 'for deserving Democrats who may be regarded as political workers, it is not to be thought that there is anything questionable about that. In a remote way, a destructive critic might see these workers and other cash beneficiaries of the administration as adherents bought with public money. But persons who think on a high plane will think only of the good which is being done and of Mr. Farley’s duty to maintain in power the party which is going to save the country. The way to achieve power and to keep it is to keep the organization firm and vigorous. The way to do that is to keep the Democrats in jobs for which they will be eager to campaign again. Mr. Langer not only was organizing a party opposed to the patriots whom Mr. Farley has placed on the public pay rolls, but soliciting money which had been appropriated by the Democrats. The man had his nerve. There is a misunderstanding of the uses to which public money may be put. It is a mistake to believe that it is wrong to appropriate money out of the treasury for political purposes. On the contrary this is one of the favorite uses for public funds and one which has been approved by both parties, as to themselves, although heartily condemned as to each other. o a Tough on Langer IF a President makes a tour of the country at the public expense to address the citizens on the great benefits which they have enjoyed and still may expect from his party, that is official business. He can not be pro.<*cuted as Governor Langer was for promoting a political organization with government money It seems rather harsh on Mr. Langer, though, to treat him so. His is only a little state, money is scarce out there and anyway his party only chiseled a little bit by comparison with all the money which the administration has available to re-elect itself. Mr. Farley is a big man and if it had been put to him on a sporting basis he might have been willing to spot Governor Langer the few nickels which his little party cribbed out of the relief without insisting on a great prosecution. It put the Democrats in the position of a soulless telephone corporation sending a poor man to jail for dropping a lead slug into the coin box. Equally interesting recently was the indignation against Senator Huey Long's dictatorial conduct in the Louisiana legislature, where he personally patroled the floor and, in flagrant violation of the American theory of representative government, gave the statesmen orders as to how they were to vote on all meaures. The legislators were his political slaves and they did as they were told without even a pretense to self-respect or independence. (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIV

MOST of the trouble with babies in hot weather you’ll find caused by lack of care in handling their food. And since their food is mostly milk, you should pay particular attention to your baby’s milk supply. It is not surprising that thousands of babies died from diarrheal disease in hot weather, in the old days, because their milk came in open vessels and was ladled out into an open bucket. It was contaminated by flies and dust. Nowadays, the milkman leaves a bottle of cold, pure milk on your doorstep, but even with this sanitary delivery you should take the milk in as soon as possible, for the sun can heat it and multiply greatly the number of bacteria it contains. Milk in warm places simply will not keep satisfactorily. In a refrigerator it will keep for a long time. If a refrigerator is not available, the milk should, be boiled immediately and then placed in the bottle in a shallow pan of water with a cloth wrapped around it so that the cloth dips into the water. This cloth acts as a wick to take up water from the pan and the evaporation of the water from the cloth will keep the milk cool. a a a IT is important not only that the original container be clean, but also that every other container used in handling the milk be sterilized by boiling. There is no use in taking clean milk from a sterilized milk bottle and then putting it into an insanitary nursing bottle or cup. Number of cases of infantile intestinal disturbances during the summer, and of deaths from this cause, has been tremendously reduced, but many cases still are brought about by carelessness in the processes that have been mentioned. If your child is able to eat vegetables, you should include them frequently in the diet during the summer. They need be given only in small quantities. The vegetables also should be thoroughly cleaned, because they are contaminated easily in handling. If they are properly handled, they are a most useful adjunct to the summer diet. a a a FRUITS are good, too, but they must be ripe. Green fruits can cause serious disturbances. For very small children, the best drinks in summer, besides plenty of good water, are orange juice, tomato juice and other fresh fruit juices. For older children, lemonade, orangeade, limeade, and similar drinks also are refreshing. Complicated, oversweetened, sticky, and overstimulating drinks will upset the stomach not only of the child, but even of many adults. About three-fourths of the diet should be fruits, vegetables, milk, and milk dishes. If these are properly prepared out of materials that are clean and wholesome, you need have no fear of intestinal disturbance among your children even in the warmest weather.

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