Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 121, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1934 — Page 7

SEPT 29. 1934.

It Seems to Me HtVHOOII BROUN "ITOW can you think up something to writ* about every day?” is a question frequently hurled at columnists. When it come* my way I answer. "I can't,” and proceed to explain that in cases of dire necessity one thinks back or even look* •t something done before and proceeds to press it for a second vintage. I may say with proper pride that for a fairly long period I have not resorted to the easy trick of reprinting something written by myself back in the 1920 s. This is not entirely because of conscientiousness. Most of those old columns already have be*n done to death and in so many instances they Just don't At the world in which we live right now. On the whole it Is easier to take a single theme and carry it through to the

end. Mr. Brisbane's mode of commenting on several daily events requires a greater amount of reading. But as a variation I will ramble today through four or five things which have no necessary relations. I am interested in Moses, who is appearing prominently in New York’s news of the day. To me Bob Moses, who is New Yorks park commissioner, is a curious individual. He is outstanding in his ability and devotion as a public servant. And yet in several speeches I have listened to him as he argued for a sharp limitation of governmental func-

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tion He is admittedly a conservative, who holds that the initiative of the Individual must not be curbed bv socialistic experiments. He holds that without the hope of large rewards through private industry the average American never will exert his best efforts. a a a Poor Propaganda, the Idle Rich BUT the gentleman who says this has devoted the major portion of his own life to efforts for which there was no return save the approbation of his fellow men. has been enormously successful in developing the park system of a great city. It is strange, I feel, that a man should feel it not only right and proper, but necessary, for the government to provide a park and yet stick at that same government providing a dole. When the people cry for bread Bob Moses would give them a swimming pool. He would have no objection to providing sheep for the populace to gaze upon, but he wouldn't give them mutton. My criticism is not directed wholly against what seems to me the ultra conservativlsm of Mr. Moses. I think many radicals miss many tricks in not acknowledging the very’ useful public and social work which is done by men who disagree with the new order in theory and then proceed to help it enormously through private practice. Certainly it would be easy to found a superb co-operative commonwealth if every one in it were a Robert Moses. The idle rich have been singularly poor propogandists for themselves during the last few months. I run quite frequently into men who assail me and ask. "Do you mean to say you think that every well-to-do person is a rogue and a rascal?” Os course I don't think anything of the kind, but I see certain ancient romantic illusions going overboard. , a a a IPs Hard to Lire With a Secret I SUPPOSE the whole theory of the amateur athlete is based on a belief that the leisure class has higher ideals of sportsmanship than those which prevail among their less fortunate fellows. Now certainly international cup racing is a game of the very rich. Here one might expect to find all the graceful gestures which have been associated, in legend at least, with the quality folk. But what happened in the waters off Newport? Some reporters suggested that if there is to be another race it might well be between battleships. I know too little of yachting to have an opinion as to which contended was in error. Yet it must be obvious that somewhere along the line somebody blundered in the matter of common courtesy. To me the most curious thing about the Hauptmann case is that the arrest came so long after the crime itself. It seems to me that the officials are dealing with a person of a palbably neurotic type. Without prejudicing Hauptmann we admittedly have a man who suddenly came into a large sum of money mysteriously. He quit his job. but strangely enough seems to have lived much in the same manner as he did before his new-found affluence. He remained sedate, respectable, inconspicuous, a most ordinary sort of individual. But he had a secret. So far nothing has developed about his boasting except a reported remark at the gasoline station when his attention was called to the gold certificate. I believe Hauptmann was said to have answered. •*Oh. I have many more.” or words to that effect. I am not an amateur sleyth. but I will wager that inquiry among Hauptmann's casual acquaintances will reveal or have revealed some cryptic utterances of his from time to time. Even a man who is fearful in discovery finds it extremely difficult to live with a secret. (Copvrleht. 1934. bv The Tim-*)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN YOUR body requires water, mineral salts, protein, fat, carbohydrates and vitamins in certain quantities. When these are taken into the body they supply materials for growth and repair, and also the energy for running the human machine in its daily work. The average man doing light work bums up 2,700 calories a day; when he's at rest, about 1.200 calories a day. When he is doing medium work he bums up about 4,000 calones; when doing hard work, from 4.000 to 6.000 calories a day. Women and children need fewer calories than do men. A woman needs about 2.500 calories a day and a child of 10 about the same; a child 5 years old about 1,500. and a one-year-old child about 600. It is the difference in the size of the body and the amount of activity in which the person indulges that make the difference in the caloric requirements. m a a, PROTEINS vary, being divided roughly as animal and vegetable proteins. Animal protein, such as meat. eggs, fish and cheese, usually is called firstclass protein, because it is of the greatest importance m maintaining growth and repair of the body. Vegetable protein is of less biological value. Unless proteins are properly selected, the bones and teeth will not develop suitably. Fats give a high yield of energy and are the chief sources of vitamins A and D. Butter and cream are the most palatable forms of fat. They are at the same time the ones best used by the body, melt at the temperature of the body and are assimilated easily. It is important to regulate the amount of fat. If the amount taken is in excess of the carbohydrates for balancing the diet, there is a liability of acidosis. a a a THE carbohydrates are sugars which yield energy and tend to spare the proteins from use as energy producers On the other hand, the desire for sugars tends to promote overweight and, in children. takes away the desire for other foods. Os the salts most needed by the body. iron, calcium and phosphorus should be most carefully watched. They are absolutely necessary for proper growth of the bone* and for proper development of the blood. Iron is found in lean red meat, especially in liver. In th* yolks of eggs, in carrots and in most of the green vegetable*, and in fruits. Calcium is found abundantly in milk and. in fair amounts, in fruits and vegetables. Phosphorus is found in eggs, milk, whole a heat, oatmeal and many nuts. Thus, a person who eats a variety of foods. If in sufficient quantities, will get the things he needs for his growth and health. Doctors are learning more and more that a proper diet is essential to health. For children it means the different between strong bodies and weak ones.

WITH AMERICA’S DRIFTING HORDE

Girl Hoboes Find Safety in Use of Feminine Wiles

Tb follewtnr article I* the lait of • series destine with the experience* of a woman writer who became one at America's migratory horde. a a a BY MISS LESLIE SHAW Written for MA Service A FEW months ago. I chucked a government job as emergency relief worker, and went out on the high-road to discover for myself just why people roam around the country looking for jobs, the chances of landing one, and the treatment of a nomad jobhunter by his fel-low-citizens. I sliced myself a neat cross-section from the life in eight states, small towns and large cities. When I had money I traveled on train or bus. In reverse, I hitch-hiked. In telling my experiences, I am asked first —always: ‘•What about the men you met? Didn’t you have trouble?” When I answer, "Almost never,” there is Incredulous silence. And yet it is a fact that the men I have met when I have found myself broke or stranded have for the most part been helpful. Not that I didn’t meet many sharp traders, keen to capitalize on a girl's hard luck. I did—and I gave them a wide berth. The secret of avoiding man trouble lies in knowing how to read them, whom to avoid. The generalization of a sound psychologist I met recently is, I believe, accurate: •

‘‘A man wont bother a woman who finds him distasteful. That hurts his vanity. He wants to be admired, to be desirable. His vanity controls his reactions.” Show a man he is like grit in your spinach and he will leave you severely alone. Unless, of course, he is drunk. a a a MY experience as a hitch-hiker had started off so well that I was over-sanguine. An elderly naval officer offered a lift, even let me drive his car half of the way. When we parted, you would have thought we had fought through a war together. Old friends. He gave me his home address and his married daughters address in Tampa, where I was headed. This is just pie, I told myself. There's nothing to this hitch-hik-ing. And promptly accepted the offer of a traveling man sittftlg by me at a lunch counter to drive on that night to Tampa. I confess my intuition was all against him. But I was in a glow of warm feeling for my fellow man. Later I learned to rely on

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Since the late William H. Woodin stepped out as active head of the treasury, eleven executives of the department have walked the plank. But the “liquidation” process, apparently, is not finished. The latest treasury whisper has it that young Thomas Jefferson Coolidge of the Boston Coolidges, soon may join the “vanishing herd.” Appointed assistant secretary in charge of government issues several months ago, Mr. Coolidge has shown himself to be an efficient, practical banker, but of such conservative views as to be out of step with the liberal monetary trend of the administration.

CO-OPERATIVE PLAN IS POPULAR AT COLLEGE Kansas State Student* Are Given Chance io Earn Own Way. By Z'nited Pm* MANHATTAN, Kan., Sept. 29.—A plan introduced last year at Kansas State college, in which students assisted in preparation of their own meals and did housekeeping to defray expenses of a higher education will be continued this year, according to college authorities. Two large groups, the women’s dormitory' and another group organized for meals at the college cafeteria, already have heavier enrollments than those of the same date last year. The co-operative plan at the dormitory calls for a $4.75 cash payment weekly and not more than eight hours of weekly work. CHICAGOAN PLANS HOP TO LITHUANIA CAPITAL Lieutenant Waitkus Hopes for Early Flight to Kaunas. By r nited Press CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—A nonstop flight from Chicago to Kaunas, the capital city of Lithuania, is the plan of Lieutenant Felix Waitkus, 25, Chicagoan, who hopes to start the trip soon. He will use a Lockheed-Vega plane of the same type as used by Jimmy Mattern, Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart. Lieutenant Waitkus was educated in Chicago, finishing his studies at the University of Chicago, after which he enlisted in the army air corps, becoming a lieutenant in 1931. Last year Captains Darius and Girenas perished 400 miles from Kaunas while attempting a similar flight. LONDON POLICE LAUNCH DRIVE ON ARMS SALE Powerful Gun - Running Gang Eludes Officers. By Uniter! Press LONDON, Sept. 29.—Any London crook can get as many revolvers and machine guns as he wants provided he knows where to go. Special Scotland Yard officers are working night and day to break up a powerful gang, which has been running guns into London for years. It is stated that they know the identity of at least three big unlicensed distributors of firearms, but raids on suspected hide-outs so far have failed. Most of the firearms are of American manufacture, and are said to be smuggled in by seamen. Large quantities also come from France and Belgium. 237-YEAR-OLD LEASE IS PRIZED BY DENTIST Document Older Than United States Cost Only SB. By United Press ALTUS. Okla.. Sept. 29—Older by far than the Declaration of Independence is a cellophane-wrapped document which Dr. M. T. Wooldridge, dentist, keeps In a bank vault here. It is a lease issued in Lincoln Wheel Tight county, England, 237 years ago to an ancestor of the doctor. Wooldridge posted an $8 fee with the county to withdraw the original paper. If the paper is not returned, the fee is forfeit. He will forfeit the fee with pleasure.

my hunches, on my animal instinct or whatever you call it. Within the first five minutes I discover that he has been drinking, is already half maudlin. Up goes the speedometer, 55, 60, 65. Around my shoulder his arm—his hot breath on my cheek. We lurch around curves, skirt fences. “You’re crazy,” I shout. “Slow down.” a a a BAD tactics. That makes him mad. Up goes the speedometer. I must be shrewd and conniving. “Great car,” I call out, as we sail over a bridge, just missing a stone culvert. “You’re a great kid,” he answers. “Afraid?” "Me? When I drive, I make time. You’re just an old Slow Motion.” It works. After a few more challenges. I persuade him to let me take the wheel. At the first service station, I careen into the driveway, and safety. He drives off, swearing. That was my most dangerous

Secretary Morgenthau and the President personally both like the dapper New Englander; but, like recently resigned Budget Director Lew Douglas, with whom Coolidge largely agreed, it is a case of a square peg in a round hole . . . More than 5.000 letters, from all sections of the country, have been received by Chairman Gerald Nye of the senate munitions investigation committee. Only three writers denounced the committee's exposures. ana 'T'HERE soon will be nonstop transcontinental air mail service. The postoffice department is working on a plan for coast-to-coast express delivery and expects to put it into operation before snow flies . . . Washington authorities were deeply impressed during the recent general textile strike by the significant fact that in practically all instances of violence, the strikers were aided by nonstriking elements in the community. They attribute this sympathetic support to the ranks of the unemployed, who, in many sections of the country, are organized in unemployed councils. One of their principles is the support of striking workers. a a a WHEN President Roosevelt sits down soon before a microphone on his desk in the Oval room of the White House to deliver one* of his intimate “fireside” radio talks to the country, the unobtrusive, but potent, counsel of his confidential aid and adviser. Louis McHenry Howe, will be bearing fruit. Inner administration circles say that “Little Louey” has been telling his chief that the time is ripe for another “chat with the folks.” . . . FERA authorities are watching with keenest interest a daring economic experiment, modeled after Upton Sinclair's EPIC program, launched by Ohio's state relief commission. It has rented several idle factories, has put unemployed to work manufacturing foodstuffs and clothing to be distributed to the workless needy. Business men have protested vociferously. Incidentally employes who worked for these same plants when privately operated now are given first preference at the jobs under government operation. ana SENATOR WILLIAM GIBBS M'ADOO’S alliance with Upton Sinclair, despite previous coolness, was no surprise to Washington politicos. "Mac’s” personal popularity in California has waned since 1932, and his leap to the Sinclair bandwagon was a wily move. . . . Being a worshiping office assistant is not the limit of Miss Frances Robinson's attributes. She also is an accomplished cook, one of her specialties being Irish stew, the favorite dish of her ex-boss. General Hugh Johnson. . . . John L. Lewis, leonine-maned president of the United Mine Workers, has served private notice on his fellow-labor leaders that at the A. F. of L. convention in San Francisco next Monday he will renew his unsuccessful fight at the 1933 meeting , to increase the executive councils membership from 11 to 24. If successful, this move would give the rank and file greater voice and power in the inner affairs of the organization. . . . Augustus E. Giegengack. recently appointed public printer, served overseas as a private under “Steve" Early, then captain, now secretary to the President. Both were staff members of the Stars and Stripes, official A. E. F. organ, Giegengack being mechanical superintendent, t Copyright. 1914 by United Future fiyadiceu. lac.)

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experience. Once, to be sure, I water-hiked several miles on a small boat, thereby putting myself pretty much at the mercy of the men who owned it. But they didn’t even talk to me. a a a GIRLS who complain of their terrible experiences with men do not, as a rule, use their heads. Typical—a lovely blond of 18 named Jewel, whom I met in a bus station in Mobile. Flawless skin and golden hair; great gray eyes and lips. With brains, she could have made her fortune in any of

10 DEAD IN BRITISH RAILROAD COLLISION London-Blackpool Express Crashes Into Local. By United Press FLEETWOOD. England, Sept. 29. —Ten persons were known dead today and more deaths were feared as the result of a railroad collision at Winwick Junction. One hundred were reported injured, twenty-seven seriously. The London-Blackpool express crashed last night into the rear of a slow train as it sped along a stretch where the tracks were raised ten feet above the ground level. Two coaches of the express were telescoped and others were derailed. Strangely the crews of the trains were not injured. FIND HORSE STEALING CARRIES HEAVY TERMS Vehicle Taking Lesser Charge in Eighteen States. By United Press COLUMBUS. 0., Sept. 29.—Horse theft is punishable in eighteen states and the District of Columbia by heavier penalties than the stealing of motor cars. This fact was discovered by the Ohio bureau of motor vehicles in a survey of vehicle laws. Ohio's code has betn revised, as have the codes of twelve other states, to increase car theft penalties above those of horse stealing. The law provides for one to twenty years imprisonment for a first offense, five to thirty years for subsequent offenses. States in which horse stealing is the more serious crime under the law are Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Washington. BOY, 3, DROWNS IN TUB father Finds Missing Lad Dead in Yard at Home. By United Press OXFORD, 0., Sept. 29.—Eugene Greer, 3, was drowned when he fell into a tub of water while playing in the yard of his parents’ home. The child was missed for an hour. His father, searching, finally found his body in the tub.

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a, number of ways. But whatever activity weht on behind those lovely eyes could not by wild exaggeration be called thinking. She had a ticket to New Orleans and fifty cents. On her way from a little town in Alabama for a week. Mired in by fall rains that almost wiped out the clay roads. The guest of a procession of traveling men, she had stayed on in a country hotel, just drifting with the rain clouds. She was going to meet Harry, a boy friend in New Orleans. But she was not always enthusiastic about Harry. She also mourned

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP • mm mam By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Out of President Roosevelt’s complex new middle-of-the-road recovery machinery, Donald R. Richberg emerged today the second most powerful official of the United States government. Only President Roosevelt ranks above him. He possesses more power than General Hugh S. Johnson had as “dictator” of NRA. No other man in American history has had a posi-

tion similar to his. In importance and power he outranks both cabinet members and recovery administrators. As director of the industrial emergency committee, problems of industrial recovery, agricultural recovery, relief, public works and labor disputes will come before him. The committee is to determine general policies for NRA and to study and co-ordinate the problems of the other recovery agencies. It, like other Roosevelt committees, is composed of cabinet members and recovery administrators, and in every other case the committees have become inconspicuous their directors powerful. ttun HE will be ever the administrative board of five members which is to have direct charge of running NRA. A year and a half ago if Mr. Richberg’s rumored appointment to the cabinet had materialized, industry would have regarded him as “radical.” He had been attorney for railway labor, and years before had been associated with the Progressive party. Now, after a year as general counsel for NRA and three months as “co-ordinator,” industry is less inclined to look askance at him. Such criticism as there has been of him in recent months has come from the labor and consumer group rather than from the employers’ side. In his recent Report to the President on achievements of the recovery program he listed a rise in corporation profits from a deficit figure of 6.9 in the first quarter of 1933 to the profit figure of 33.2 in the second quarter of 1934. He has made a hundred or more speeches during the last year, consistently advocating industrial democracy and deploring with equal vehemence state Socialism and Fascism. In his most recent speech at Baltimore, a week ago, he declared that “dictatorial” control over

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about Ralph. She had loved Ralph for a year, hadn't seen him for six months. “Why did you two break up?” I asked. "Well.” she said thoughtfully, her gray eyes shadowed by unbelievable lashes, "the main reason was that his wife came back.” So she drifted along, getting rides, meals, cigarets, even lodging from her casual knights. Just a sponge. a a a BUT not Marion, another girl I met later in Miami. She was as sharp as a pawn broker, and as amusing as Beatrice Lillie. She entertained the gentlemen who gave her lifts and meals with wisecracks, and assured me that that was the extent of her entertainment. She had set out for California with $75, had hitched there and back with the wallet intact. Your true comrade on the road is likely to be a person who is broke like yourself. On a train from Tampa to Miami were some boys being sent home by the local transient bureau—on half rate tickets. I concealed my experience as a former transient worker. One brought me a chocolate bar, another an apple from the candy vendor. "Sure you're not hungry?” they asked. “We’ve got some money that social worker gave tfs along with our ticket.” A cold wave that night. I shivered under my thin coat, and turned stiffly on the two seats they pulled together for me. At dawn, awake, cozy and warm. The boys had taken off their coats and covered me while I slept. No one is so generous, merry and care-free a comrade as the one who, having seen better days, has been stripped of every resource but his imagination and his good sportsmanship. THE END

prices and production must be eliminated, except where necessary to prevent unfair competition or the waste of natural resources. In temperament and approach to recovery problems he is more like President Roosevelt than any other man in the capital. Both parry queries with parables, answer their opponents with humor rather than abuse, and display considerable finesse in maintaining middle-of-the-road policies. Liberal rather than conservative members of the administration predominate on the industrial committees which is to be in nominal charge of policy making for NRA and co-ordination of all recovery plans. Secretaries Ickes and Perkins, AAA Administrator Davis, FERA Administrator Hopkins and the chairman of the national Industrial recovery board will serve with Richberg. W. C. T. U. TO MEET IN NORTH MANCHESTER Total Abstinence to Be Stressed at State Convention, Marion county delegates to the Indiana V\ C. T. U. convention, which will meet in North Manchester Thursday, and continue through Monday, will be Mrs. R. E. Hinman, state trustee; Mrs. Ella Kroft, state evangelist; Mrs. C. E. Carter, state exhibit director; Mrs. L. E. Schultz, Marioq county president, and twen-ty-three local union presidents. The convention again will emphasize total abstinence. Speakers will Include Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, New York, national vice-president; Miss Grace Leigh Scott, special W. C. T. U. national lecturer, and Dr. W. P. Dearing, Oakland City college president. FATHER GIBAULT HOME WILL RECEIVE FUNDS K. of C. to Conduct Drive for Boys’ Institution. The state council of the Knights of Columbus yesterday announced the inauguration of a state-wide campaign to raise funds to give financial freedom to the Father Gibault home for underprivileged boys, Terre Haute. Success of this campaign will mean the annual saving of a 60-cent per capita assessment, which is now used to support the home. The Brothers of the Holy Cross, who operates Notre Dame university, last week assumed direction of the home, for the support of which the Indiana bishops issued an appeal several weeks ago. JOBLESS HOLD ‘FEASTS’ Potluck Suppers by Unemployed Weekly Feature at Park. By United Press FOND DU LAC, Wis., Sept. 29. A weekly "garbage fest,” a potluck picnic for boys and young men out of work, is a feature at Taylor park here. The youths bring their own food and discuss the depression, how to get a job, the drought. President Rocsevelt and current events. AL SMITH TO SPEAK Cincinnati Awaits First Visit by New Yorker. By United Press CINCINNATI. Sept. 29 Alfred E. Smith will pay his first visit to Cincinnati when he edraes here in October to attend the National Conference of Catholic Charities. He will address the first general session of the four-day conference at -j&usic Hall, Oct. 7.

Fair Enough HMM UPON assurance from Germany, the American Olympic committee has voted unanimously to accept Germs ny's invitation to participate in the Olympic games in Berlin in 1936. Mr. Avery Brundaee. president of the committee, went to Germany to look into certain vague rumors regarding the treatment to which the Jew is subjected under Adolf Hitler and. happily, was able to assure his colleagues that the Germans would be fair and sportsmanlike to all Jewish athletes for the dura-

tion of the games. There was further assurance that German Jews who desire to compete for place* on the Olympic team of Germany will suffer no hindrance in their training and no discrimination in the team selections. This, too. is a comforting promise. Os course, captious individuals among the athletic coaches and trainers will be sure to doubt that a Jewish track man can do himself justice training in a dungeon and it does seem barely possible that in the final competitions the German selection committee might use an extra-fast watch to

time the Jews and a lazy one to clock the Aryans. They might even require Jewish swimmers to race their heats with an anvil under each arm and Jewish high jumpers to wear the standard Oregon boot as part of their equipment. But there is only a limited amount of fair play in Germany at this writing and, on the basis of the census figures, the Jews ought not to complain if the Aryans give themselves 95 per cent of the available supply and the other 5 per cent to the Jews. a a a The Star of David vs. the Swastika ONE detail which Mr. Brundage does not appear to have gone into in his dealings with the Germans is the matter of Jhe salute to the colors which is a traditional rite in all Olympic games. In fact, the athletes spend a good deal of their time snapping to attention, facing the mast and saluting ons set or another of national colors as they are run up the pole in recognition of victories won on the field or in the water. Then, also, there are the grand ceremonials and salutes to the colors of the nation which happens to be hast to the games both at the start and at the conclusion of the festival. It imposes some strain on the imagination to fancy America's Jewish athletes solemnly saluting the Nazi swastika unless a special dispensation could be obtained to permit them to substitute the raspberry or Bronx cheer. In that case, no doubt, they would be glad to salute with great enthusiasm. Yet, if they do not salute in the formal manner, German national custom will require that the mob rush down out of the stands and kick them around until such time as they can be locked up in the police station. In due course to be sure, the American consul will get them out and the German government will say “excuse it please,” but by that time the athletes might not be of much use to the American Olympic team. It might even be necessary to bury them. a a a Assurance—lron Clad THE spectacle of a Jewish athlete on the American team—and there are always Jews on the American teams—saluting the swastika, like that of a Catholic athlete paying similar respect to the insignia of the Ku-Klux Klan is a picture no artist can paint. Mr. Brundage has evinced a gift of diplomacy, which should not be neglected after this. Now that he has obtained the promise of r„ Nazi government minister, as a sportsman and gentlemen, to refrain from persecuting the Jews for this limited time and in this limited connection, perhaps he could induce the billygoat to smell prettier when wet. There is just a trace of a doubt, however, as to the worth of this pledge. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh relied on the honor of the man who murdered his child. The man promised to return the baby for $50,000 and didn’t. Now the Germans have got the Olympic games and the rest of the world has only the promise of the Nazi government to guarantee decent treatment for some of the participants. It is hardly what you could call iron-clad assurance. (Copyrißht, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ GIANT radio tubes, capable of handling the electrical energy needed to run a city's street car system are the latest wonder of science. They attracted the attention this week of delegates to the convention of the American Transit Association in session in Cleveland. The new tubes were installed recently by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in the airport substation of the Cleveland Railway Company. Within your radio set is a tube known as the rectifier. Its function is to turn the alternating current with which the power company supplies your home into the direct current required for the operation of your radio set. Like your radio set, a street car system requires direct current. But as you can readily imagine, there’s a difference between the amount of current needed to run your radio and needed to run a flock of street cars. Each of the two rectifiers installed in the substation in Cleveland is 3,000,000 times as powerful as the tubes in your radio set. These rectifier tubes do a job which otherwise would require a motorgenerator set. The motor-generator is essentially an alternating current motor driving a direct current generator. The mercury arc rectifiers have no moving parts. They function in absolute silence. a a a THESE rectifiers take alternating current, received from the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company at either 4,600 or 11,000 volts and with the aid of auxiliary transformer equipment, convert it into direct current at 625 to 672 volts for the operation of the street cars. Unlike the radio tube, the mercury arc rectifier is not enclosed in a glass tube. In this case, the “tube” Is a steel tank surrounded by a water jacket. Every trace of air has been removed from the tank. In the bottom of the tank are pools of mercury. When the rectifier is in operation, Jets of mercury vapor are shot up from the pools. These jets of mercury steam are condensed when they strike the water-cooled walls of the tank, falling back to the floor of the tank in the form of drops of liquid mercury. Over and over again, as the rectifier is operated, the jets of mercury steam rise from the pools, only to fall back again in the form of a mercury rain. In the top of the tank are iron electrodes. Now when the tube is in operation, the mercury vapor Is ironized. That is, many of the atoms of mercury lose electrons. These atoms then become positively electrified. The electrons, which are set free, are negatively electrified. a a a THE electron stream moves in only one direction. It goes from the pool to the iron electrodes. Consequently, it constitutes a one-way bridge for the electric current. The alternating current supplied by the power company reverses the direction of its flow sixty times a second. That is why it is called sixty-cycle current. But since the electron bridge will only allow current to flow in one direction, the current which comes out of the rectifiers is direct current. Its flow is always in the same direction. This is the sort of current required by the street car motors. Questions and Answers Q—What government department has charge of the national parks? * A—The national parks service in the United States department of the interior. Q—How long is the highway between Chicago and Milwaukee? A— Nicety-two miles.

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