Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 74, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1934 — Page 7

AUG. 6. 1934.

HSeems to Me HEWOOD BMJN CARATOGA, N. Y.. Aug. 6—l think it was SherAndrr in hi.' story “I Want to Know Why,” who first aroused my interest in what goes on at a race track in the early morning. Anderson has a feeling for color and for form which is far beyond me and I ■ ou see the horses galloping along the r;m of the sun before the mist has lifted. Thi Im t I can do is to advise you to get some trainer to ask you down. I

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doubt if there is any more lovely sight in the world. A race with your own horse on top, or thereabouts, provides a urring p.cture, but, as in the theater, I like the rrhear- . :1 better than the performance. In the dawn the horses h t their hair down. They are more natural and twice as articulate in the morning. Ff mingly they do not feel that it is necessary for them to put on airs for the trainers, stable b vs and dockers. They snort each o' her as th* y pass by and I presume it is a language. F r years I have been under

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the in.j n that r <e horses were beautiful, but r mb. When I mentioned this opinion to Max K;r ■ a he w s shocked and quickly put me in my p But n- v kind enough to ask me to come around to hi b rn and loc k ior myself. a a a His Monti/ Doesn’t Help BU I I am i. <t the type ever to get very chummy wi’h a hoi The smallest wager which I put on the ba>: of any of the noble animals is treated a .1 it wrc a load of load. Even the finest of the * to a v. 1 .1k w hen he feels the pressure of nyv *2 ui>on his neck. Even the simple matter of hai.nmg out sugar to the colts and fillies i m.nied by me. I almost lost two fingers from mv lH” r hand in parsing round the sweets in Saratoga. H realize instinctively that I have only the f!i hte • km w ledge of what it is all about and tii< • treat me contemptously. But Maxie Hirsch km vs the language. You could have knocked me over with a selling plater as I watched him dis- < ; a v aty problem with one of his 2-year-olds ti.. i iniitg. He vc. schooling some of his young hors< m the use of the starting gate. One of them in.: •* and upon kicking at the padded sides of the stall and rearing up on h:s hind legs. Hirsch walked quickly to the horse’s head but he never touched the bridle. Wm complete unconsciousness and great earnestnr s he s .and. * What s the matter with you? You're 3 \ ais (Id. haven't you got any sense at all?” It probably would be an exaggeration to say that the But he did pay attention and he stopped prancing on the instant. M xie walked some ten or twelve feet away from th** pat" and said, "Come on out, slowly.” The hoi >e walked to him with all the alacrity and precision ol a well-trained dog. "Now co back.” said Hirsch. “back into the stall,” and the horse did exactly that. a a a He Suggests a Horse T HAD an tin feeling that I was watching black magic and that if Hirsch had said. “Go over to my cottage and chew Walter Lippman's column out oi til* p per.” that the horse would have done it. To be sure. 111 admit that Hirsch would have to tell the home what Lippman was talking about. B what could be fairer than that. Mr. Lippmann i' a sort of mild medical missionary to the men of W ll Street. They worship together at the shrine of tli> unknown god. Or possibly it would be a nicer i ol English to say, “the unidentified god.” But r. v p nit is that after several years of preaching to bankers and brokers Mr. Lippmann has begun to 1< s like a banker and broker. And certainly in the early morning Maxi, Hirsch distinctly suggests a horse. Naturally I mean this in the best sense of the word. During the training period Mr. Hirsch seems to bo motivated constantly by the feeling, “Now what would I do if I were that horse?” It seems to me that in following this formula Maxie Hirsch is bv at least a couple of lengths more severe than Walter Lippmann. The mere fact that you undcrstand the psychology of a banker or a race horse should not evitablv commit you to approval. Maxie Hirs h remains a sentimentalist. Even when confronted by sheer fractiousness he can not quite forget that he knew the culprit’s sire and once won a bet on his dam. Even the poorer horse merits more than I ever can a fiord to lay ujxrn him. I do not like to hear racing referred to as the sport of kings. It's much too good for them. On the contrary from horse to visiting columnist we are all equal upon tfie turf or under it. tCoDvncht. 1934. bv The Times! Your Health BY DK. MORRIS FISIIBEIN w w THEN you ate tun down, underweight and weak, W y. a are more likely to become infected by germ than at times when you are up to your normal weight and feel strong. Almost everybody knows this. but. like many another far' that almost everybody knows, science likes to 1 ligate the ba kground and to know the reason for the condition. Before we knew that there were vitamins, less attention was given to the relationship of nutrition to resistance a a mst infection, than is bestowed on the subject r Since 1900. the idea that nutrition cl::, ly r. luted to resistance has gained ground. It was known, for example, that a diet without vitamin C brought on scurvy and that a person or animal with > urvy was likely to become Infected. It was known that a lack of vitamin D In the diet brought en rickets, and that children with severe rickets seem’d to become infected much more easily than those who did not have this condition. nan IT has been found that deficiencies of vitamin A bring on night blindness and changes in the eye. end it has also been established, in some manner, a I k oi vitamin A injures the mucous membranes of the no.e and throat so that they become more easily infected. There i no doubt that deficiencies of vitamin A re stance to infection. particularly in nose and throat. This mv - ni t indicate that you ought to eat vast amounts of ?ht>e vitamins to prevent infection. Must well-fed Americans have plenty of vitamins A. B and C in their diets. You should be sure, however, that your diet is ... se substances. Any diet that contains plenty of milk, butter, ecu- and fresh vegetables will have adequate amounts. ana THE mochar.. m of resistance to infection is a complicated one affecting the blood. The blood contains antisubstances against various infections. We art not sure yet that deficiencies of the dit are r fleeted directly on these antisubstances, but i. grr:.' deal more study is necessary before the exact nature of the mechanism is understood. Apparently, the likelihood of infection, when the re are ri.- tary deficiency s. is not due to any lack if these ant distances in the blood or to the power c: the body to produce the antnubstances. It seems nrh r to li m the weakness of individual cells to get r.d of infection- which attack them. All the evuit nee le. ds to the view that the hkelih.i and of d:sfl>e is not. as a rule, affected by diet nearly so much as it is affected by exposure of the human body to some serious source of infection. On the other hand, ability to resist infection when it enters the body can be greatly reduced by a deficient vLei.

‘FRANK’ ROOSEVELT—HARVARD,_’O4 International Debts Worried President Little in College Days

BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Tim** Staff Writer. Copvrifhv 1334. fcr Tfct Ir.dtanapeii* Ti mes Publishing Cos. All Rights Reserved.! WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Despite The Crimson's condemnation of the daily metropolitan newspapers the young Harvard editors, under the managing editorship and later the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, did advocate outside reading. On March 10, 1903. an editorial in the Harvard daily advised undergraduates to get the reading habit’’ and continued with the comment that it is “the reading habit which distinguishes the man of a liberal education from the one of a narrower mental scope.” But the young editors soon reverted to the tactics pursued in their campaign against the Boston papers. It seems that one must be extremely careful regarding what one is to read. Some sort of lurid literature was being bootlegged on the campus and the Crimson crusaders battled to put a stop to that. On March 16 they had this to say:

• The transept of Memorial hall seems to have become a favorite resort of all those who have pamphlets of any sort for distribution among the undergraduates. The importunities of these men are annoying to many, frequently the papers which they hand out are of an objectionable nature, and the entrance is always littered with their trash in an unsightly manner. “There is no more reason why such persons should be allowed in Memorial hall than tramps and peddlers are in the dormitories; and the university authorities would do well to take such meas ures as would put an end to this misuse of the transept.” a a a MEN engaged in this nefarious traffic were, of course, “muckers” in the best sense of that term then so popular at “Fair Harvard." But there were others also to whom the editors applied the label. For instance, there were the underprivileged Cambridge street urchins who came into the yard on spring nights to hear the glee club and band concerts. Often they misbehaved and this always drew letters to the Crimson communications column and editorial comment suggesting they perhaps should be barred as “muckers.” In the May 28 issue, the editors urged that the yard police drive out the “muckers” from the concerts. This was written after one of the correspondents in the communications column charged that these “street Arabs” had the effrontery to give what was later to be known as the “Bronx cheer” when the student body had risen to sing “Fair Harvard.” That night the Union Library was robbed and a few nights later the Semitic museum was robbed. But the evidence was conclusive that the thefts had been committed by Harvard men themselves, not the “muckers.” To remedy this situation, the Crimson editors, under young “Frank,” urged “public censure,” a cure which President Roosevelt was to use thirty years later in punishing “chiselers” of NRA codes. “Pitiless publicity will prevent

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

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Yesterday was a big day for Honest Harold Ickes. Using the President as his chief sales attraction, he is selling the national parks to the public as has no other secretary of interior . . . Ickes is a unique salesman. It is a stern, rockvisaged Ickes who talks about “hot oil,” or attempted graft in the public works administration. But it is a lyrical Ickes who talks about his national parks—“the healing touch which nature holds in the forested places of the earth” . . . Ickes always has been a great nature lover, developed an important species of gladiolus. When he became secretary of interior he started a quiet nature-selling campaign, persuaded Jim Farley to issue special stamps for the ten largest parks, booming the fact that the depreciated dollar made traveling cheaper at home.

Asa result, park visitors increased in the off-season this year 37 per cent. . . . Ickes, who several years ago spent fifteen days riding horsc-baek in Glacier national park, was able yesterday to show the President personally the Blackfeet Indian reservation, the Continental Divide between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, and the buffalo jump-off where the Indians slaughtered their buffalos by forcing them to jump from the cliffs. a a a STANLEY BALDWINS cool announcement that Britain's border is now the Rhine meant just one thing to state department observers: The entente between France and Britain is now as complete as when the kaiser invaded Belgium ... as a matter of fact, France has given the British important air bases in northern France, from which they can unite against a German invader. . . The new military entente was arranged last month during the \isit of the French chief of staff in London. His talks were eclipsed by the visit of French Foreign Minister Barthou, but they were more important. . . . The chief danger of hostilities in Europe is through a -‘preventive” war. The French general staff has figured that it would be easier to check Germany now than five years hence. British leaders for the first time begin to concur in this. This is one of the chief developments of the new entente. ... An Austrian, incident may give the necessary excuse. cue THE original Whistler painting, “An Arrangement in Black and Gray.” popularly known as 'Portrait of Whistler's Mother." reproduced on Jim Farley s Mother's Day stamp, is displayed permanently not in any American gallery but in the Louvre in Paris. Washington's Freer Gallery has only a small lithotint reproduction. . . . Most popular room in the Free/ gallery is the Peacock room, displaying decorations done by Whistler for the dining hall of F. R. Leyland's London house. Expecting to receive 2.000 guineas for the work, Whistler was irked at receiving only 1.000. So on the wall over the buffet he painted, out of pique, the "Rich Peacock and the Poor Peacock.” one with feathers blossoming gold, the other quite drab; one representing the stinting patron, the other himself. Hunter Shot Accidentally Irvin Smith. 53. Twenty-first street and Franklin road, went squirrel hunting yesterday and accidentally shot himself m the leg. He was sent to Methodist hospital.

any such acts of puerile vandalism,” the editorials advocated. a a a Throughout that year Crimson editorials cited the fact that Harvard Union was really a club, open to dues-paying members only. Each spring the union elections were held, the nominating committee selecting the slates. Much attention was devoted by the editors to this slate selection and here, if not elsewhere, they were stanch advocates of democratic principles. They urged members to run for the various union offices and for all who would to present names as “it is only by the co-operation of all that the present system can obtain the best possible results.” They urged that nominations be made from the floor by those who were dissatisfied with the committee selections and that in each instance “the best man be selected.” When election day rolled around the paper published no favorite slate, but confined editorial comment to a fervent plea to “come out and vote.” a a a Editorial boldness seldom marked the Crimson pages and when Managing Editor Roosevelt became president of the Crimson in his final year. The paper boomed largely on the business side, the editorial campaign being confined mostly to repeated comments on the lack of proper enthusiasm for “organized cheering” and similar matters. Finally, the cheering campaign proved successful and the paper went a step further and advocated mass singing. Throughout the two-year period of the Rooseveltian editorship and presidency of the Crimson, grave questions were being discussed by various speakers at the school and the debates were unusually noteworthy, so far as selection of subjects was concerned. The editorial column occasionally took notice of these things,, but it never took sides. For example, on March 23, 1903, Harvard met Yale in debate on the subject:

GRADUATION NEARS FOR 38 AT BUTLER Annual Summer Session to Close on Friday. Thirty-eight Butler university students are candidates for graduation at the close of the annual summer session next Friday. C ididates in the college of If erai arts are Ruth Ale, Hallie Mae Beachem, Mary Louise Blauvelt, Gertrude Buehler, Perry Car- - rol, Hugh Ewing, Dallas Galbraith, Lola Johnson, Alex Levin, Claire Nulton. James Otto. Blanche Steiner. Martha Heller. Richard Melick and Kathryn Atkinson. Two-year teaching certificates will be granted by the college of education to Rowena. Hayner, Ruth Mauzv. Ruth Van Sickle, Dorothy Whitehorn and Lauretta Williamson. Bachelors degrees will be by the same college to Evelyn Achenbach, Mildred Benedict. Adelia Brier, Flora Davis, Mary Eskin, Eleanor Hack. Anna ; LeFevre. Nelle McCarnan, Frances | Shaw, Edith Shirley. Mata Wittlin, Fae Youll. Edward Emery, Loretta Martin, Inez Nixon and Mary Helen Seal. College of religion degrees will go to Leslie Sparks and Ward S. Humphries. CAMPAIGN SOLICITING CHARGE UNDER PROBE FERA Conducting Investigation into Trustees’ Race. Reports that grocers in North township. Lake county, who sell poor relief supplies, have been solicited for a percentage of their sales for campaign funds in a township trustee race, today were being investigated by the federal emergency relief administration here. A preliminary report to the commission stated that relief workers made the solicitation, threatening to remove the grocers from the relief lists if the money were refused. $1,300 LUGGAGE STOLEN Thieves Break Into Parked Car of Tourist Here. Thieves Saturday night broke into the automobile of Mrs. B. C. Eaton. Grosse Pointe, Mich., parked on Washington street near Capitol avenue, and stole luggage valued at $1,300, she reported to police.

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“Resolved, That the United States should permit the European governments to seize and hold permanently territory of the debtor state not exceeding in value the amount of the award.” The question dealt with South American debts owed to Europe. Harvard won, upholding the affirmative side. The debate seems significant in the light of history, with President Roosevelt facing the countries of Europe with the United States the creditor nation. But Editor Roosevelt took no part in such controversy so far as the pages of the Crimson can disclose. a a a HERE is the comment in the editorial column on that remarkable debate: “No one who attended the debate last night could help being impressed by its extreme closeness. Each side showed by its clear presentation that it had studied the question thoroughly, and it was very gratifying to learn that our team was judged to have excelled in such a contest. “The interest excited by the

RACING START IS IN NEWSREEL Mrs. Dali Is Pictured in Nevada Getting Divorce from Husband. Opening day at Saratoga as the first season of legalized betting opens is featured in the current issue of The Times-Universai Newsreel. The American Legion Handicap proves a thrill to the crowd as the inaugural handicap is taken by an outsider in a driving finish. This is included with outstanding news events in this latest newsreel. Also included are scenes of the defeat of Bill Bonthron in the mile race by Jack Lovelock at London, England; the progress of work on the great 815,000,000 Wheeler dam, part of the Muscle Shoals project; pictures at Minden, New, as Mrs. Curtis Dali, the President’s daughter, obtained her divorce; Italian cavalry in maneuvers preparatory to massing near the Austrian border!, and the latest fall fashions on display in Chicago. Probate Court Judge Dead By United rrcss WILMINGTON, 0., Aug. 6—Judge J. S. Kimbrough, 89, Civil war veteran, for many years on the probate court bench and once superintendent of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ home at Xenia, 0., died here recently.

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“.Mamma, tell Louise what I was like when I was a kid***

Left, James Roosevelt, father of the President; center, Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of Franklin, and, at right, Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the age of 9.

question and the general excellence of the work of both sides served to make one of the best debates we have had for years. The contest was one in which it was a splendid achievement to come away victorious, but in which it was no disgrace to finish second. Our debaters and coach deserve the gratitude of the university for the manner in which they performed their hard task.” Never a word was said about the content of the debate nor its application to world affairs then, or in the future. The next fall, Yale won the debate on the subject: “Resolved, That the history of trade unionism for the last twenty years shows a general tendency detrimental to the best interests of the country.” How that question has plagued President Roosevelt in trying to interpret the now famous Section 7-A of the national industrial recovery act. a a a THE Crimson commented upon Harvard's loss in the debate by saying that more support was

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP a a a a a a By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Two or three more states may step from the dry to the wet column before 1934 ends. Legal liquor is an issue at elections in nine states this fall. All are dry states in which a group of citizens large enough to force a vote wants to abandon prohibiton restrictions. So far, no dry organization has mustered equivalent strength in a wet state.

First on schedule is South Carolina’s election Aug. 28. This is a state the drys are almost sure to hold. South Carolina was one of the two states to vote against repeal. Maine votes next, on Sept. 10, and the outcome is more doubtful. Wets have an excellent chance of winning. Maine voted 2 to 1 for repeal and since then has come up against a local problem that makes a strong talking point for legalization of liquor. At present, Maine citizens may drive into neighboring wet states and return with all the liquor they want. The state loses the tax it might collect if sales took plape at home. Important papers in the state are urging that liquor sales be permitted as a source of new revenue. The state already has legalized beer. Seven more states vote Nov. 6 on liquor. In the list are Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming. W’ets have pinned their hopes particularly on West Virginia and Wyoming. st a a BUT the drys take what cheer they can from this array of facts. Nine of the twenty dry

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needed for the debating teams. The editors expressed the view that Yale may 'have had the easiest side of the argument. But losses at football, baseball, rowing, debating, or what not always left the Crimson editorial staff under “Frank” Roosevelt, still self-assured and somewhat cocky. They had a historic headstart on their most ardent rival— Yale—and nothing could take that away from them. Thus, when the paper began speculating, in the winter of 1904, about the need of anew gymnasium, the editors, without mentioning Old Eli and its munificent gifts, pointed out that “Harvard has no fairy godfathers to give millions.” Then the conclusion was drawn that after all they could get along rather well without such benefactors (although always on the lookout for them). “We have been pretty wel at the head of the procession for 300 years,” the editorial complacently concluded. Next—Social Life and Social Problems.

states have not even submitted repeal proposals to their people for a vote. Two states, North Dakota and Mississippi, refused early this summer to abandon their prohibition laws. Drys have won some important local option fights in wet states. Since these developments they have renewed their efforts to organize throughout the country. They foresee a “strong turn in the tide of sentiment.” All the wet states have found liquor sales an important Source of revenue in the last half year. Federal and state taxes and customs duties, however, have helped to boost liquor prices so high that officials are increasingly alarmed at bootlegger inroads. J. H. Choate Jr., director of the federal alcohol control administration, suggested at the recent Governors’ conference at Mackinac Island that all state governments consider tax reductions, but his suggestion met with a cool reception. Wets are becoming more concerned than government officials over bootlegging. Drys are beginning to sing the chorus the wets sang so long about the evils of the bootlegger, and the repealists recognize its potency if it is continued long enough. They see a possibility that the same weapon which played an important part in their victory in time may bring their downfall.

CITY COAL CO, MAY LOSE BLUE EAGLE Labor Board Asks NRA to Take Action. By 'I Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Because the Monument Coal Company of Indianapolis was found to have violated section 7-A of the NRA, the national labor board has asked the NRA compliance division to remove the company’s blue eagle. Announcement of this action was made by Chairman Lloyd Garrison of the labor board. Their findings upheld those of the Indianapolis regional board, he said. That board found that J. W. Cooper had been discharged by the company for his activity in trying to organize employes and get them to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers. When the company refused to reinstate Mr. Cooper upon orders from the regional board, the case was certified to the national board. Rescinding of the blue eagle is expected shortly, Mr. Garrison stated. Officials of the Monument Coal Company had no comment to make today.

Fair Enough ffilßMMt NEW YORK. Aug. 6.—Some of the golfing ladie in the New York region have created a situation by turning up for the tournaments wearing shorts which is short for short pants. Shorts are not in the golfing tradition and the lady chairman of one of the tournaments undertook to bar the clubhouse at the tea. or highball, interval to all those competitors whose costumes violated what she believed to be the regulations. It was discovered then that there are no fixed regulations as to the proper attire for either ladies or gents in golf and that a lady's conscience must be her guide in this matter. However, there Is to be a serious meeting of the tournament committee of the Women's Metropolitan Golf Association to decide whether ladies may wear short pants in

future tournaments and, if so, what ladies. This is the first time the ladies have given any trouble in the matter of regalia in golf. In other sports, notably swimming and tennis, female athletes who were confident of their charm, including some who were overconfident, pioneered in the direction of simplicity and negligibility some years ago. a a a How About Permits? THE consternation in those sports at the time was similar to that which now

reigns in the lady golf tournaments, but simplicity and negligibility won. They likely are to win in golf also, as there seems to be no power strong enough to compel the ladies to wear dresses or even long trousers once they decide that they look and feei better in the negligibles. There never has been any complaint from the males beyond a tactful suggestion, now and then, that females desiring to wear shorts, or less, for swimming, tennis or golf should be required to obtain permits from a sort of art committee. The trouble has always been that some ladies insist on wearing the minimum who are not qualified by nature to do so. The result, in many cases, has been depressing to beholders and the need for a jury to pass on the applicants never will be more urgent in any sport than in the game of golf. The fact is that golf, being a walking game, likely is to develop a type of leg which is known as the pool table or'piano leg, which is not suitable for gazing at. Female hikers and campers acquire the same sturdy but rather inartistic development and it is an interesting fact that those ladies who are least qualified to wear shorts generally are most determined to wear them. With the disappearance of the walrus types from the swimming teams some years ago the trend toward negligibility in swimming costumes was welcomed by press and public. It was welcomed with special heartiness by the press as the fashion produced many interesting pictures for the rotogravures and simplified the task of the art editors considerably. There was a brief situation in the course of the Olympic ladies’ diving events in Los Angeles two years ago when some anonymous official interrupted the proceedings to order that Miss Georgia Coleman retire to her dressing room and put on more clothing. This order was disapproved vigorously by the customers sitting about the pool, but Miss Coleman, herself, did not protest. She went away and reappeared for the diving wearing a swimming suit which looited as though it had been tailored for Pnmo Camera. The costume sagged and hung down in loose folds, but Miss Coleman is a lady who could look charming in a Mother Hubbard. In fact, she did. a a a Empire Still Stands THE tennis ladies were a little more demure. They first left off their stockings except on the courts of Wimbledon, where her majesty, the queen, always a conservative in the matter of dress, did not approve of the nude feminine leg as a public spectacle, and her wishes dealt the athletes a setback on the way to negligibility. But the nude limb was seen everywhere on the American courts, although Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, another conservative, continued to wear stockings long after the others had abandoned them. This vear, even in the English tournaments, shorts were worn and the empire, at last reports, had not fallen. The style is a mitigated pleasure from the standpoint of the customer, however. Tennis, being a running and jumping game/ also tends to produce piano and pool table effects. The pioneers insist that they have no interest in the spectacular effect, but are interested solely in physical freedom for strenuous activity. Up to this time, however, ladies who go in for plowing, making, hoeing and such chores on the farms have not found it necessary to adopt shorts. But then maybe you would not call these pursuits strenuous activity. (Copyright. 1934. bv Unite and Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today s Science

THE world of science has been remade since the beginning of the twentieth century. Ihe nineteenth century drew near its end with a feeling upon the part of scientists that they had erected a unified and rounded structure which would stand for all time. Then just before the end of the century came the discovery of X-rays, followed in a few years by the discovery of radium, and science was oil to anew start, building anew structure which put aside the simple positive elements of the nineteenth century and replaced them with such elusive elements as the election, the quantum, relativity and wave mechanics. The good fortune to participate in the work of both centuries was given to a small group of scientists. One who helped round off the nineteenth century as well as to pioneer in the twentieth is Sir Oliver Lodge. Today he is past 80. And from that vantage point he has put down the story of his life in a book called “Past Years.” It is published by Scribner's at $3.50. a a a SIR OLIVER LODGE is known in a general way to the public as a very famous scientist. But it is doubtful if any persons other than his fellowscientists realize just how important a role he has played. He was one of the great pioneers in the development of radio. He did work upon the wave theory of light prior to the time that Heinrich Hertz proved the existence of Hertzian waves, or radio waves as we call them today. It was Sir Oliver's work which made possible the solution of many problems involved in the transmission of radio waves. In "Past Years,” he writes with that same charming simplicity and clarity which makes his many successful books of popular science. Incidentally, ha speaks about the genesis of some of these books, particularly his "Heroes of Science,” a book w’hich I regard as one of the most delightful books of the sort ever written. a o a EVERY person interested in modern science will find "Past Years’ a fascinating book, lor it illuminates the life of a great scientist, telling the influences that made him what he is and in turn the influence which he exerted upon the world. The world has produced few- figures so lovable and so magnificent as Sir Oliver Lodge. It has been my great privilege to meet Sir Oliver on a number of occasions. I recall, particularly, the picture he made at a soiree of the British Association of the Advancement of Science upon the campus of the University of Liverpool. The crowd w'as a brilliant one, for full dress, academic robes and medals are in order at a soiree of the British association. Suddenly I caught, sight of a magnificent figure coming across the grass. He was an old man. as his bald head and white beard testified. But he was square-shouldered and erect and looked about six feet tall. The black and white, of his full dress accentuated the brilliant red of the Oxford gown which he wore open. Upon his breast were some of the most coveted decorations of the British empire. There was a flurry of whispers as he approached th crowd. It was Sir Oliver Lodge.

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