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H-Seems to Me HEVWOOD BROUN I GO away to th** country almost every to cool off This has noting to do with the temperature. When I picked a house I chose a spot which would be just as hot as the city. I didn’t want to run the risk of becoming soft and turning into a farmer. But the theory has been that by sitting under a tree and contemplating my maple I might readjust myself to the facts of life. Lots of people think that bv watching the wind in the willows they can find the answer to that age old question. Am I right or am I right.'’ William Allen White has had a reputation for homely wisdom for years simply because he keeps a voting residence in Emporia. Kan. Ed Howe was

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great delusion. One does not acquire wisdom by the simple act of sitting on the grass. Cleaner thoughts and better thei. ome to me m the hideaways of the large town than I ever hit upon while watching the sun slide down behind my neighbors cornfield. Out here I can paint better, but for the Job of writing gi>e me Bagdad-on-the-subway every time. ana One Cricket—Cheap IN Manhattan a man can find the inspiration of throbbing silence along about 2 o'clock any morning. Nature has rejected the Blue Eagle. The birds and the beasts spell each other through a twenty-four hour day. We have a cricket. Who wants a cricket? No reasonable offer including a riveting machine will be refused. It was Dickens. I believe, who first made me fopi warm and sentimental about the cricket. But Dickens dirin t play lair. He definitely placed him upon the hearth. That wouldn't be so bad. I can listen to a cricket with the best of them for a minute and a half. You sip your denntasse and the little creature goes. "Chirp! Chirp!" Somebody says, “Isn't this charming—the big room, the open fire, the wind blowing outside and that dear little cricket on the hearth?" “I can't agree with you about sex." says the lady lrom Cos Cobb and the cricket goes, “Chirp! Chirp!” “But,” interposes the man from Albany, “the trouble is that he didn't express himself bluntly enough. Let me try" to state it.” "Chirp! Chirp!” At this point I have a slight foreboding that things aren't going just right. Whenever a man frem Albany begins to argue about sex with a lady from Cos Cobb it is time to get out the bridge table. a u a Nature’s Own Kibitzer ILIKE to bid fast. I can't quite make out from . the newspapers whether Jacoby punched Sims or Sims punched Jacoby. But I’m in favor of it. The experts have done their best to nun contract, which is the best card game ever devised by man. They have tried to change a recreation into a ritual. As I remember it the row at Asbury Park started because somebody laughed. That. I think, is the complete criticism of the expert attitude. Here is a game being treated as if it were a major operation or something by Beethoven. Better, I say, a dozen errors than the silence of the grave and the grimness of a master's gambit. You look at your hand and you have three tricks, or maybe two and a half, or you haven't. Why should a man or a woman linger over a bid like a despondent lover perched upon a penthouse parapet. “Chirp! Chirp!” I wish that crickets could be dialed out like radio programs. The little fellow seems to have too much ego in his cosmos. He iias increased both volume and tempo since we sat down to bridge. Charles Dickens spoke of his being on the hearth. Well, Mr. Dickens may have been a good novelist, but he was no naturalist. I've been all over the hearth with hobnailed boots and still I hear that infernal cluip! chirp!” Nature ought to have better sense. What is the point of inventing still one more species of kibitzer? So I'm off in the morning to the quiet of the city. I want to hear the rumble of the subway and the pleasant dawn patter of the milkman's big white horses. They are blasting in the park just abaft my window. I wonder if they could spare just one stick of dynamite. Id like to get that cricket. •Copyright. 1934. bv The Timest

Today s Science ___ B\ DAVID DIETZ

A NUMBER of shafts have been sunk in the meteor crater near Canyon Diablo. Ariz., in an attempt to find out what happened to the gigantic meteorite which is thought to have struck the earth at this spot and brought the crater into existence. The err ter is 4.000 feet in diameter and has w alls rising 150 feet above the desert. Hundreds of pieces of iron, known as the Canyon Diablo siderolites have been picked up in the vicinity. The largest found weighed 1.400 pounds. It has been assumed that these siderolites were fragments of the great meteorite or bolide which brought the crater into existence. aaa THE rocks of the region belong in the Grand Canyon series. They are as follows, in descending order: 1 On the desert plain, some remnants of the red sandstone, called Moencopie. 2. The topmost continuous stratum is the Kaibab a limestone. 250 fc-et in thickness. "3. A white sandstone, the Coconino; 1.000 feet. The basal beds of the Coconino carry some yellow and brown color. 4 Hard, red sandstone, known as the red beds, or supai formation, of undetermined depth in that region.'* aaa SHAFTS have been sunk in the crater in the hope of discovering portions of the meteorite. This work was given added interest by the possibility that it might di>close a large mass of iron. "The central area of the crater was probed by seventeen drill holes, even to the depth of 1.000 feet, or 1 450 feet below the surface of the surounding plain. ’ F*rofessor Fairchild says. 'This probing passed entirely through the white Coconino sandstone, and penetrated 200 feet into the red beds. Seven of the drill holes entered the red beds, which were found in place and unchanged. This lowest formation is not represented in the ejected materials composing the crater rim. but samples of the yellow-brown rock of the Coconino are found in the ejecta on the southern rim. a a a **I"VURING later years, from 1920. exploration has JL/ been made on the south border of the crater, on the theory that the bolide fell slantingly from - the north and that much of it lies deep under the south wall. "This second of the uptilted surrounding run has been raised about one hundred feet higher than elsewhere. The drillers reported meteoric iron from the depth of 1 200 feet down to 1.376 feet, where the drill was stuck and abandoned. Recently a shaft at the locality was a failure because of the water and the shattered condition of the rocks. F'urther exploration is anticipated. "It appears highly improbable, if not impossible, that the mass of the bodies could penetrate to the depth reported for meteoric material. It would have to slantingly traverse some 2.000 feet of rock. And the uplift of the surface should be more than one hundred feet. And it is difficult to visualize the mechanics by which detached fragments could reach to the great depth."

accepted as a philosopher largely because he was sagacious enough to publish his journal under the date line, “Potato Hill ” If I settled down here for life and put ‘ Hunting Ridge, Conn ," in front of all my judg- : Hindenburg, Hanftaegl and Hitler I could, perhaps. win wider acceptance for my point of view. People would saw “Old Farmer Heywood is close to nature. There must be something in what he writes.” But I rather would face the slings and arrows of outrageous indifference than curry favor by collaborating in a

THE NEW DEAL IN AMERICA’S RELIEF

‘Production Aid ’ Offers Renewed Hope for U. S. Jobless

Thi it the flrtt of hre* tforlet on production relief.” the plan which it ,weep.nl the counter, and which it the most important move in the oast two reart toward Miring the relief and unemplorment problems. man BY WILLIS THORNTON Timea Special Writer /CLEVELAND, Aug. 13.—A new attack on the nation’s relief problem j jg under wav. The name for it is production relief. This plan is being so widely adopted all over the country that it is bound to have a big effect on the national life within six months. Here's how it works: Take a town—any town. It has a half dozen factories standing idle deteriorating, delinquent in taxes. It has hundreds or thousands of unemployed on relief; mostly the people who used to work in the now-empty factories. The governments, local, state, and national, are supporting these people, paying them a weekly relief allowance in money or food. Maybe they get a little " made work" like the CWA. of doubtful value. They can buy nothing, the state can furnish nothing beyond bare necessities, on account of the rising cost of relief.

Production relief brings the two together. Relief authorities rent the vacant factory, equip it. Then they say to workmen on relief, “There's a factory. Go into it and work for your relief allowance, and keep the products of the factory, shoes, suits, dresses, furniture, for yourselves.” The workman goes into the plant. If skilled at the trade, he starts right in. If not, he is taught. a m n HE works enough hours at the going rate in the trade to earn his relief allowance. Then he is allowed to work a number of hours more. That gives him credits which he can exchange for the products of the plant, say shirts. When he has earned as many shirts as he is allowed to receive ft he number will be strictly lim.ted, because otherwise he might be tempted to go outside and sell them), he may exchange his credits for other things such as shoes, kitchen chairs, a dress for his wife. Where did these things come from? They were received in an exchange with another city which was making them. After our typical city has made the required number of shirts for all relief clients, the rest will be sent to another town where relief people are making shoes, and a swap made. a a a SKILL and hope are regained. A sense of self-reliance comes back. For no more money the relief dependent gets clothing and furniture, that he wasn't getting before. And commercial stores have lost no customers, for the relief dependence weren't customers, anyway.

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

—By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13— George Peek’s Import-Export bank has made a quiet, but important, decision against credits to Germany until she settles her debts to American bondholders. Decision came after considerable debate, Peek favoring credits and southern cotton men, who make large sales to Germany, supporting him. But Cordell Hull was adamantly opposed. He won . . . When the Import-Export bank for Russia made a decision against credits to it had tremendous reverberations in the press. The German decision, even more important, has made hardly a ripple.

Sumner Welles, whom many Cubans regarded as a hard-heart-ed despot, once found a baby brown thrasher in his garden. He put it in a cage and got up every morning at 4 to feed it. The bird now is 3 years old. . . . Robert Woods Bliss, ex-ambassador to Argentina, gives his guests paper towels when they use his spacious swimming pool. a a a CURRENCY inflationist Senator Elmer Thomas is telling friends that at the next session of congress the administration will support a project for the nationalization of the Federal Reserve system into a central federal monetary authority. There are no ifs. ands or buts about the dapper Oklahoman's statement. He declares flatly that Secretary Morgenthau favors such a move, that three members of the federal reserve board are privately for it. Asked recently if she found being a woman was a handicap. Secretary Perkins replied, "only in climbing trees.” . . . Some 50,000 cases of high grade, foreignmade liquor, taken from rum-run-ners and stored in Brooklyn. N. Y„ warehouses, soon will be auctioned by the department of justice to retailers and large private consumers. ana THE River Shannon in Ireland is due for some intensive study by the Tennessee Valley Authority. David E. Lilienthal, director of TVA, is planning to visit the Irish Free State to see how the Irish government dis* tributes power from the Shannon. Mr. Roosevelt also has given some long distance study to the project through Irish Minister Mac White. Next to dishonesty in government. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes hates a split infinitive. Once he nearly fired a man for drafting a letter for him to sign which contained split infinitives. But one of Mr. Ickes’ assistants later caught him warning against the use of "a preposition to end a sentence with.” aaa YOUR checking account will soon be back in the freeservice class. The compulsory charge specified in the NRA banking code is to be discarded. Henceforth, no bank shall be required to assess depositors unless 75 per cent of the banks in the same area agree to such an impost and it receives NRA approval. iCopvrisht. 1934. bv United Feature Svndicate. Inc.i TWO INJURED BY SWINGS Girls Suffer Head Cuts and Arm Hurts at Playgrounds. Edith Lynn. 8. of 3502 East Thirtieth street, suffered lacerations over the left eye yesterday when struck by a swing while playing in Washington park. Falling from a swing at a playground at Olney street and Roosevelt avenue resulted in a right arm fracture yesterday for Thelma Sims, 8, of 2421 Stewart street.

That’s only typical of the way it should work. There are many variations. And it is spreading rapidly. In scores of cities all over the country, projects have been launched that mean creation of a co-operative, nonprofit industrial system among the unemployed themselves, to operate independently of the field of privateprofit industry—a sort of “wheel within a wheel.” Several of these projects are already under way and turning out goods. Ohio has on the point of production one of the most inclusive. When it gets going this fall, unemployed people on relief will be turning out for their own use such things as men's suits, over-* coats, women's dresses, white goods, shoes, stockings, furniture, pottery and mattresses, with many more articles on the list if the plan is extended. a a a THE projects are by no means uniform, as all are directly controlled under state and local auspices. Sponsorship of the federal government through the federal emergency relief administration is indirect. It furnishes the money and its blessing. The states and communities then go ahead. More than 150 co-operative enterprises of the unemployed of this general type have been tabulated, and their scope is shown by the fact that in northern Ohio alone, Allen Schwalb, industrial engineer for the Ohio Relief Production Units, Inc., expects to see 9,000 otherwise unemployed men and women at work in these factories. Plans for production of 67,000 dozen pairs of stockings a year, at least 30,000 men’s suits a year from one unit, and 80.000 plain

NIAGARA RAPIDS ARE DRAGGEDFOR VICTIM Woman, Believed Suicide, Is Sought in Whirlpool. B]f United Press NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Aug. 13. —The waters of the lower Niagara river whirlpool rapids were dragged today for the body of an auburnhaired Bradford (Pa.) woman who leaped from a sight-seeing cable car to her death, 250 feet below. She was identified as Mrs. Ruth L. Hyde, 30, wife of William P. Hyde of Bradford, fifty-seven years her senior. Dragging operations were tedious and dangerous because of the treacherous condition of the river at the spot where she jumped. The woman jumped from the cable car, which contained fourteen other passengers. Only two of the passengers witnessed the jump. No reason could be advanced by relatives. MID-SOUTH HARVESTS BUMPER COTTON CROP Prosperity Is Seen by Farmers, Despite Drought, Bjt United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Aug. 13.—While almost every other section of farmland in the country mourned drought-ruined crops, the mid-south today began harvesting the best cotton crop in years. Fifteen-cent cotton was a possibility for the first time since 1931. Prosperous days seemed assured for thousands of farmers in western Tennessee. Alabama. Mississippi, western Arkansas, west Missouri, northeast Louisiana and extreme east Texas. The drought, has not been severe in this area, but the sun has been hot enough to curb the great enemy of cotton, thp boll weevil. YEGGS CONSUME BEER WHILE ROBBING SAFE Undetermined Amount of Money Lost by Pie Concern. Beer-drinking safe crackers this morning took an undetermined amount of money from the safe of the Pittsford Pie Company, 1420 North Senate avenue, according to police. H. L. Crawford, 1701 North Illinois street, told police he saw the office door had been pried open, the combination on the safe knocked off. and the safe completely ransacked. Extent of the loss is undetermined. but Mr. Crawford estimates it will amount to several hundred dollars. A cigar butt and several empty beer bottles lay on the floor near the safe, Mr. Crawford told police.

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Here is ar. empty factory building, closed, deteriorating. Here are workmen without work, receiving relief allowances useless to the owners as well as to the public. either for doing nothing or for doing "made" work.

Why not, say sponsors of the new production relief plans, put the two together? Let the workers use the empty factory, earning the relief money they’re getting anyway, and producing for themselves many things, such as clothes, which scanty relief funds cannot now buy for them?

Such a workman, at the regular going wages of the trade, But the workman would soon have made all the shirts he would work enough hoi/rs to earn his present relief allow- could wear. So exchanges will be set up, and the shirtance. Then he would be allowed to work somewhat longer, maker will then be able to swap his shirts for the shoes or earning further "credits" with which he could "buy" some furniture being made by another worker like himself in of the things he had been making, such as shirts. another plant.

chairs in this one district indicate the extent of the plans to help the unemployed to help themselves. What is all this going to do to private industry? Neediest to say, every one of these produc-tion-relief projects which has started up has met brisk opposition from manufacturers of the same sort of products. tt tt o CLEVELAND clothing plant officials howled loudly when the plans were broached, and they were asked to co-operate by lending advice on the setup. But with more complete explanation, their complaints subsided to a sort of half-convinced co-opera-tion. In Massachusetts, a plan for the unemployed to make mattresses for themselves drew bitter fire.

DRUG STORE IS ROBBED OF SIM Cash, Checks and Whisky Comprise Loot of Bandits. Police today were seeking an armed bandit who robbed the Haag drug store at 2202 North Meridian street of SIOO in cash, S4B in checks and three pints of whisky yesterday. Amon Cox, 26. of 309 East Twenty-fourth street, assistant manager, said he was forced to open a safe. A customer entered the store and was waited on by another employe without knowing that a holdup was in progress. A boastful bandit and. his companion robbed Russell E. Oakley, 32, of 2026 Madison avenue, of his taxicab and $lO yesterday. The bandit bragged that he was “part of the old Dillinger gang.” Two young holdup men robbed Harold Rogers. 22, of 419 North Gladstone avenue, attendant in a filling station at Tenth street and Sherman drive, of S4O yesterday. The robbers locked Mr. Rogers and a customer in the lavatory, fired a shot at the window and fled. CHILD RUNS INTO AUTO 3-Year-01d5s Leg Is Fractured, Driver Arrested. Lavenink Benishoff, 3. of 1153 North Warman avenue, suffered a left leg fracture Saturday when he ran into an auto driven by Edward Wolf. 21. of 734 Ketcham street, in the 900 block, Ketcham street. Wolf was arrested for failure to have a driver's license. The child was sent to city hospital.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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And it is said that Republican campaign managers are watching the development eagerly, ready to raise the cry of ‘‘Socialism.’’ Socialism it certainly is, up to a point. Yet its sponsors deny that any of the goods produced will ever get on the commercial market. They are strictly for use of the unemployed themselves. a a a HENCE, Mr. Schwalb believes, the market for commercial goods will not be cut, whereas the market for raw materials like cotton, wood and wool, will be stimulated to the benefit of private industry. Mr. Schwalb indicated that the needs of the relief clients of Ohio, who make up one-sixth of the population, have been surveyed in regard to the products which the

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP aaa a an By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13—Something new in American political campaigns was in full swing today. For the first time in this country’s history the minority party will try to “pin the Red label” on an American President. This is a daring reversal of strategy usually employed by “ins” to convince voters that a change to the “outs” would be dangerous. , , The new plan of attack was disclosed in the Illinois speech of Henry P Fletcher, chairman of the Republican national committee, which marked the formal opening of the Republican effort to reduce New Deal majorities in congress.

“There is absolutely no difference between the ‘New Deal’ philosophy and the philosophy of the Soviet government,” said Fletcher, and he worked his address up to a climax with a warning that the Roosevelt philosophy runs “like a red sinister thread” through the policies of his administration. His address was made a few hours after throngs of westerners had cheered the President’s promise to extend the New Deal still farther and had given him the most impressive greeting of his career. aaa THE Republican plan of attack surprised Washington for several reasons. For one thing, efforts to discredit Roosevelt officials in this way have proved distinctly unsuccessful. For another, the trick of “pinning the red label” became closely associated with utility companies during the federal trade commission’s investigation of propaganda. The commission made public a letter from one power company official to another,, advising as to conduct of a campaign for the United States senate in which he said: “My idea would be not to use logic or reason, but to try to pin the Bolshe-

“production relief” units intend to make. These products would be distributed only to people holding relief cards. These “production relief” units had their inspiration in the barter and scrip units which swept across the country in 1932. But the new units will be better organized and will have government money back of them. Production relief, starting off quietly and unobtrusively this fall, is the most revolutionary step yet taken to conquer depression, unemployment, relief and bitter discontent. Next: llow a typical “production relief” project was started in a decaying mill town not so far from the Massachusetts village where 150 years ago other Americans opened a fight for liberty.

vik idea on my opponent.” The advice became a byword here. The Fletcher speech follows closely on publication by NRA of figures showing that New Deal policies have the overwhelming support of federal courts which have passed upon them so far. Democratic officials found their answer to the Republican attack in evidence that a majority of the congressmen seeking re-elec-tion this year are campaigning on a “support-the-President" platform.

KILLER OF BANDIT IS ROBBED OF $256 Beer Parlor Proprietor’s Son Is Held Up. Oscar Hale, 5320 West Washington street, who killed a bandit six weeks ago. was held up and robbed of $256 early today in the beer parlor at the West Washington street address. Young Hale, son of Charles Hale, owner of the place, was waiting on customers at 7:30 a. m., when a bandit entered and, forcing the youth into the basement of the beer parlor, robbed the cash register of $256. The bandit escaped in a car. Six weeks ago, young Hale shot and killed Harry Clark, a bandit, who attempted to rob the beer parlor. YOUNG ORDERLY HELD IN JEKYLL-HYDE CASE Hospital Employe Admits Robberies, Boston Police Say. Bit United Press BOSTON, Aug. 13.—A Boston city hospital staff member was held today as an alleged “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” who while off duty looted dwellings in the Dorchester and Mattapan districts. Samuel R. Morris. 19, an orderly, is said to have confessed that during afternoon rest periods over the past six months he broke into thirty homes, stealing jewelry and other valuables. Arrest of Morris came after police saw him in tha company of Benjamin Weiner, a suspected “fence,” who also was arrested. DRUG STORE ROBBED BY UNMASKED BANDIT Gunman Flees in Waiting Car With sls From Register. Drawing a pistol from beneath a newspaper, an unmasked bandit today held up Joe Bills, 35, of 202 West Twenty-ninth street, manager of the Haag store at Thirty-eighth and Illinois streets, and took sls from a cash register. The bandit loitered around* the drug store, waiting for two other employes to go into the basement, before he pulled the weapon. He fled into a waiting car.

Fdir Enough i WESTBROOK Mil! NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—For eleven months of the year. Saratoga. N. Y.. is a more or less lawabiding small town. During the month of August Saratoga takes a marital vacation from her conscience and becomes the summer headquarters of the New York underworld just as Miami becomes their winter quarters from Christmas to St. Patrick's day. Throughout August, Saratoga is infested by many of the dressy, sinister characters of the region known as Broadway and many

of the frowsy, sleep-out types who hang around all horse parks like buzzards wheeling in the region of something not quite sanitary. It is an interesting fact about horse parks that they attract the two extremes of society. They command the investments and the attendance of many of the most arrogant dudes of the eastern seaboard which is the habitat of the society and dashing-sportsmen type. And they inevitably draw into any town where a horse meet happens to be in progress the professional and semi-professional

gambler, the hoodlum, tout and con man. Tha contrast between the two extremes is strange to behold considering that they are, in one important respect, so much alike. The history of some of the great fortunes shows that the ancestors, to whom the dude descendants owe their wealth, were not much different from the underworld characters who patronize the horse meets today. The ancestors used different tools and methods to amass their fortunes but their principles were the same. a a a It's a Business Deal IN between the two extremes at Saratoga is a wide belt of ordinary people who save a little money during the year and go to the races in August by way of vacation. They like to watch the horses go, bet a little, play a little roulette at night, drink a little and call it a good time. Saratoga is subject to the same laws against gambling rooms that apply to every othpr community in New York and the roadhouse parlors which operate during the month when the city's conscience is out of town do so in open violation of the writing in the book. There is nothing furtive about it, however, as the honest local citizens frankly condone and even demand this lawlessness on the ground that Saratoga’s business needs the money. In Miami there is an element of local business men who insist that this is a fallacy. Professional gamblers are all hit-and-run operators who spend no money in a town, importing even their hired help from the underworld of New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, and skim off the money which the tourists might spend in their stores, hotels, restaurants and so forth. Now and again in Miami, arguing strictly in their business interests and without regard for the morality of gambling, the merchants succeed -in closing the roulette and dice parlors for a season. But the opportunities for graft are heavy and the gamblers, through their connections with politicians and the underworld, always are pressing. B tt B Really Not a Rad Spot SARATOGA lies within an hour’s drive from Albany, where the Governors of New York live. Often during the racing season the man who happens to be Governor at the time tools over to watch horses get out there and run like everything or sit around in the cool of the evening surrounding steaks, chops and refreshments. Seldom is the Governor convinced that the local law enforcement agencies are neglecting their duty. The Governors seem to agree with the business men of Saratoga that their community needs the wages of sin. and that the will of the biggest investments in a given place is the real law of that part of the land. For the rest of the year, Saratoga, though dull, is not a bad place. Os course the presence of the underworld for thirty days every year and the notorious violation of the law under special license is bound to have a certain degrading effect on the civic morality of the native population during the other eleven months. But once the excitement is over, Saratoga drowses off again and little happens until next August. Saratoga has possibilities as a great American cure on the order of Vichy, Royat and Bad-Nauheim but, though natural resources are there and have been pronounced good, the facilities for the care and treatment of patients in need of rest and quiet never have been developed. It isn't necessary while the sin business thrives. iCopvriuht. 1934. bv Unite and Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

ONE well-established fact in connection with the link between odors and memory is that certain odors are remembered much more easily than are others. Most people can remember the odors of the country as compared to those of the city. And most of us can remember the smell of musk, carbolic acid and violets. It is, however, rather difficult to recall the easily recognized aroma of asafoetida or garlic. It is rather well established that most people dislike the odors associated with the bodies of other persons, but arte not sensitive to their own smell. It is believed that the practice among certain savage tribes of rubbing noses at the time of greeting, rather than shaking hands or kissing, is due to the early tendency of recognition through the sense of smell. Authorities now believe that the sense of smell is produced by the physical and chemical action of particles of material or gases which stimulate the sensitive nerve endings in the nose. aaa NEIL LEITCH, the psychologist, has pointed out that the sense of smell in the human being is modified by previous experience and also by vision, taste, touch and hearing. For this reason, a certain odor may be pleasant at one time and nauseating at another. It is perhaps for this reason that, also, we can remember easily what we see, but have difficulty in many cases in remembering odors. For instance, it is easy to remember what a certain species of rose looks like, but very few persons can remember what it smells like. Professor Leitch points out that very many curious observations have been made on characteristic body odors. Infants are held to smell of rancid butter, young persons of goats, and old people of dried leaves. aaa NEGROES are said to smell strongly of ammonia, Indians of acetylene, Australians of phosphorus, while Chinamen arp described as having a musty odor. The ethnologist, Parke, describes Monbuttu women as having a strong Gorgonzola perfume. Europeans frequently pride themselves on their absence of smell. This is a delusion. Asa matter of fact, owing to their hairiness, they have a very much stronger smell than some of the colored races. It is also recognized that variations in body odor are brought about by emotion, by certain drugs, and by certain types of disease. In medicine, odor plays a relatively small part.

Questions and Answers

Q —What is the population of Brazil?, A—The 1930 census enumerated 41,079,000. Q—Did Ty Cobb play baseball with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1927 and 1928? A—Yes. Q_Wtien did the last horse car cease to operate in New York City? A—July 27. 1917, when the Bleecker Street and Fulton ferry line franchise was abandoned.

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