Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 151, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1934 — Page 7

NOV. 3, 1931.

It Seems to Me HENM BROUN THE race which Joe McGoldrick is making for comptroller is of vital concern to the city of New York and I think it should enlist interest throughout the country. Here again is that old contest between the expert and the political hack. But this time there is a difference. I can understand the lack-luster enthusiasm with which city voters support candidates who call themselves “reformers” or fall unwillingly under that label. When I have to choose between a reformer and a machine politician I am for the reformer. But such a race never coi% mands my finer sensibilities. In all truth I hate the rascals, but I never have been too friendly toward high-minded gentlemen who had no other ftrogram than the keen intention to throw out the

racketeers. In politics as at the track you can t beat a horse with no horse. I always am anxious to ask the new broom leaefcr, “But what will you do when you get te?" Os course. McGoldrick doesn’t have to answer since he already has shown his hand m office. Even before that time he had no accounting to make as far as I was concerned. Some yearj ago I used to be in politics of the forlorn hope school. After an Ineffectual dash at congress I dropped back and took quite eagerly a designation for alderman on the

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Socialist ticket. Congress never worried me. Aside from the fact that I had no chance to be elected I still felt quite at ease as to my competence If some small miracle occurred. m m Just a Bunch of Seeds r | 'HE papers keep us informed about congressmen. A We all know what congressmen do. They send out seeds and make speeches. I’ve made thousands of .speeches and why should a room In Washington be any different than a street corner on Broadway? But the dimly potential Job of alderman had me worried. I called Joe McGoldrlek into consultation and got a little group together to listen to six lectures on municipal government. Before he began his first address I said. “Professor McGoldrick. I ; asked vou to come and talk to us because I'm run- j ning for alderman and I want to find out what an ! alderman does and what he is supposed to do.” Naturally, I tried to Intimate that I would lean in the latter direction.

“That’s very simple,” said Joe McGoldrick, “the board of aldermen has very little usefulness in New Yo;k and ought to be abolished. Why don’t you campaign on the issue that you want to be one of the aldermen to end all aldermen?" It mud a very good suggestion. I thought that I could convince the voters of New York that it would be a good idea to get rid of aldermen if I were even a potential one. Unfortunately I was too eloquent or charming or something and my constituents decided bv an overwhelming majority that they still wanted to have an alderman even though I was not thp fellow. But McGoldrick in his impromptu lectures did take up issues larger than the one to which I referred. I do not want to embarrass him in his present race but he was one of President Roosevelt's original brain trusters. The country has been sold a caricature of the college intellectual. Through the pressure of propaganda many citizens of the United State* identify Tugwell, or Moley, or McGoldrick as that stock figure of state burlesque known as “the absent-minded professor.” It i* held in some quarters that although these gentlemen mean well they are utterly impractical and visionary. mam He's Fair Enough NOTHINO could be further from the truth. McGoldrick. for instance, knows just as much about the mechanics of district leadership and Tammany rule as any chieftain of the hall. Nothing but character and conscience stands between him and a post as a machine leader. Moreover, he always has been utterly fatr in admitting the rather surprising amount of hard and honest work which comes out of a corrupt system. In the rank and file of Tammany officeholders there are many who actually try to give the city a run for its money. But that is not the way she tide runs or the pressure is applied. In all cities it generally Is held that while good government may be more honest, machine rule is much more fun. By some curious accident honest rule has become confused with Puritanism. In Philadelphia. Chicago, New York and smaller places the advocate of reform is pictured as a sour-visaged individual in a plug hat who wants to see everybody in ms own bed at 9 at night. Again and again reform has been wrecked by the natural instinct of big town folk to go after gaiety. But a city can be gay and honest at the same time. The two things are not mutually incompatible. In fact a town can be rowdy and honest. I do not want to loose any slurs or scandals about McGoldrick. but it is my impression that he could take a drink and cut down a cheating contract all in the same afternoon. I hope that on next Tuesday the city of New York will assume national leadership in deciding that intelligence is not necessarily a bar to public office. (Copyright. 19J4. by Th# Times)

Your Health' BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIS

N'ATURE, fortunately, has provided us with much more lung tissue than we need for breathing purposes, and as a result anew method has been developed for the cure of such respiratory conditions as tuberculosis. The process involves the entire collapse of the lung in the chest cavity. Its technical term is "artificial pneumothorax." Pneumothorax was coined in 1803 to describe the presence of air in the chest cavity outside the lung. Through use of the X-ray, many such conditions have been discovered. Around 18*2 a Scotch doctor found that he could cause a lung to collapse by putting air into the chest cavity outside the lung. It was not. however, until 18QC that a physician actually introduced air into the chest cavity to rest a diseased lung. An Italian doctor named Porlanini first tried this procedure. Then the eminent surgeon. John B. Murphy, in Chicago, tried the method in 1898 and published his results. Various gases were used for the purpose, but it was finally found that filtered air was the most practical and satisfactory. j tmm Yl/HILE the method is relatively simple, naluralW ly some dangers are associated with it. One of these dangers is that the needle used to inject the air may get into the blood vessel and produce what is known as a gas embolus. Such an embolus, getting into one of the blood vessels, might reach the brain or the heart and produce a most serious condition. However, it is possible to guard against this complication. In fact, such an accident has been found to occur only five times in 20 000 cases. The chief value of this method is. of course, to rest a lung that is diseased by collapsing it and keeping it from breathing over a certain period of ume. mm* '"I ''HERE are. however, certain types of cases In A which it would be more serious than in others —namely, cases of severe heart disease and of asthma. It has long been known that strict rest in bed is one of the most important forms of treatment for those who have tuberculosis. The collapsing of the lung is superior to rest in bed, because it rests the lung completely. When you realize that the average person breathes about 25.000 times a day. you can get an idea of how much rest the afflicted lung actually gets when it stops breathing. The good results that have been obtained in this type of treatment depend largely on the intelligence with which the method is used. Today the method is tried not only in adults, but l in children and in very aged persons. It serves to Va considerable extent to stop the spread of tubercubecause It dose* up cavities and prevents the from getting into the sputum

U. S. TO CHINA IN THREE DAYS

Test Hop in Giant Plane Planned to Chart Pacific Air Route

BY ERSKINE JOHNSON M 4 ferrvle* SUIT Crre*pondat SAN FRANCISCO, Nbv. 3 —Now the Pacific ocean, like the Atlantic, is being regarded seriously as a prospect for re,pilar air routes which would shorten the transport of passengers, mail, and express from a matter of weary days to one of exciting hours. The p roe pec t arises from the announcement by President Juan T. Trippe, of Pan-American Airways, that an experimental flight will be undertaken shortly between the United State* and China, to establish the practicability of regular air transport across the Pacific. Pacific flights have been made before, to be sure. But all heretofore have been confined to military or private airplanes cleared of all extraneous load and with additional tanks of gasoline and oil to assure success of the flight* over the wide expanse of sea. This time, however, Pan-Amer-ican’s latest colossus of the air, the Brazilian Clipper, or S-42, will make the Pacific flight practically as a regular transport. This huge amphibian, powered by four 750-horse power Hornet engines, is capable of carrying 2,000 pounds of mail and express, forty-two passengers, and a crew of five. It is a Sikorsky built ship, with a gross weight of nineteen tons. a m a TY ECENTLY, with Charles A. Lindbergh in charge, the Brazilian Clipper broke ten world records for transports, in altitude and distance. In a nonstop flight of 1,250 miles, the ship flew as fast as 190 miles an hour and averaged 158 miles an hour. Enough fuel was left to go another 300 miles. This promises well for the long first leg of the

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

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—As elections approach there are more and more indications that the administration is going out of its way to give the glad hand to business, that Roosevelt is keeping his professional experimenters in the background, and that he is anxious to give the appearance of good old-fashioned economic solidarity. For instance, word has been passed down the line to the AAA administrators to lay off the baiting of the meat-packers, the canners,

the milk distributors. At one time , this was the chief sport of the i AAA. But the other day one of the I executives who stood forth unrelentingly against the big processors, remarked ruefully: “All we are doing now is selling indulgences to big business.” This, of course, is an exaggeration. Nevertheless, it is significant. It is also significant that Henry Wallace, crusading secretary of agriculture, now seldom goes near the White House. He once was a constant visitor. Significant also is the fact that Chester Davis, administrator of the AAA, was appointed to the policy board of the NRA. Henry Wallace was left off. The point is that Chester Davis is more amenable to suggestion, never did have the crusading instincts of the agricultural chief. Wallace is a mystic and a puritan. It would pain him terribly to compromise any of his principles. And now it is less painful for him to keep out of the picture. m 0 a ALL along the line—with the bankers, in the NRA, in labor' relations—this pulling of the former Roosevelt punch is discernable. The chief question is whether tliis will be a continuing policy or merely one of political expediency, to be revamped immediately after elections. Some of his closest advisers believe it is the latter, that after Nov. 6 Roosevelt will swing back to the old liberal, hard-hitting Left. However, there are some indications that this may not be so. In fact there are definite indications that the administration is seriously considering a steady—though not too great—drift to the Right. ROOSEVELT once described his recovery tactics as those of a football quarter back—making one play, going into a huddle with his players, making another play, testing out its success, then going into a huddle again. But some of his critics point out that in the game of recover the rules are not so fixed nor the factors so definite as in the game of football. In fact, they compare the Roosevelt method to Samuel Butler's description of a novice learning to play the violin, writing the music and manufacturing the instrument at the same time. At any rate, Roosevelt and his advisers are getting round to the idea that the day of experimentation is over, that they can no longer throw a few economic elixirs into a test-tube and get results. There has been a lot of talk about regimentation and economic planning, but actually there hasn't been much of it. There have been a lot of heterogeneous moves, such as taking people from the city and putting them on the farm, and simultaneously decreasing farm production. But actually the economic planning has been play-by-play stuff. Now the inside boys figure that this play-by-play sniff is finished. Their political sixth sense tells them that the country is fed up with it. • * m THE net result is that the administration has a sori of mild idea that it would like ~o go a bit Right. But not too far. However, there is one different factor and it is an important one. There is a definite undercurrent which demands that the administration keep Left. It is not so vocal as the cry for stability which comes from business. But some of the politicos who keep their ear to the ground for the benefit of the President think it is more

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The huge planes that will fly possible air routes over the Pacific in the future may even surpass todays finest product, shown above in the Brazilian Clipper. This mighty amphibian, which will make an experimental flight to China, has four < SO-horse power motors and can carry forty-two passengers, five crew members and 2,000 pounds of mail and express.

contemplated experiment across the Pacific. Tentative plans are to fly the ship from either Los Angeles or San Francisco to Honolulu, a distance of 2,400 miles, then 1,300 miles to the Midway islands, 1,300 to Wake island, 1,300 to Guam, 1.400 to Manila, and finally 750 to Hong-Kong. The total distance of 8,450 miles, from either Los Angeles or San Francisco, President Trippe says, might be made in three days and three nights. Compare that time with a full three weeks for a liner’s passage to China! Once the practicability of transpacific flying Is established, the prospects for expansion of regular

powerful. Furthermore, that it is growing. This cleavage is a definite source of worry. And what concerns some of the President’s advisers and must concern him is that he is sitting in the middle. In fact, Roosevelt, once branded as the radical, now’ is a mere pink liberal in comparison with a large body of opinion. That is one reason why the. bankers recently decided that the day might come when he would be their chief protector. That also is the reason w r hy the administration itself does not know definitely whether it is hewing a course to the Right or to the Left. It is caught betwixt and between. (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

WALL STREET FAVORS ROBINSON, BETS AND HOPES HE WILL WIN

By Timm special NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—Wall Street is anxious to see the reelection of Senator Arthur (Li’l Arthur) Robinson of Indiana, it was learned today with the revelation that Wall Street speculators are more willing to put their money on the Indiana senator than they are on Sherman Minton. In Indiana—where they really ought to know—Minton is the favorite. Six years ago, Li’l Arthur used to rant about the “predatory interests” and speak vaguely about what he was going to do about it. He never did anything. Apparently, Wall Street appreciates him, even if Indiana may not. MATCH FIRES FUMES; MAN. HOME BURNED Moth Compound Blaze Causes SI,OOO Damage. Roy Maddox, 33, of 1116 North Capitol avenue, was wondering today whether moths might not have been better. Last night, Mr. Maddox settled down on the davenport in his apartment for a comfortable after-dinner smoke. As he struck the match to light his cigaret, there was an explosion, followed by a sheet of flame. Mr. Maddox was burned on the face, neck and hands. The apartment suffered damage estimated at SI,OOO. Firemen, who needed two hose lines and chemical tanks to extinguished the fire, told Mr. Maddox the explosion had been caused when fumes from a moth-proofing compound, with which the sofa had been saturated yesterday, became ignited. $200,000 LOANED IN CITY HOUSING EFFORT Indianapolis One of Leaders in National Program. Indianapolis today ranked high among the cities of the nation in backing the property repair and modernization program of the federal housing act with $200,000 in actual leans made by city financial institutions. j Fred Hoke and R. Earl Peters, director and associate director of the Indiana division of the housing act. anoundbd today that $173,396 08 had been loaned for repair work by building and loan associations, banks and trust companies, and that approximately $30,000 has been loaned by private Industrial firms under the act.

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air routes to the Orient would be tremendous. • n v a THE present flve-day trip to Hawaii could be cut to sixteen hours, considering a cruising speed of 150 miles an hour over the distance of 2,400 miles. The fast Oriental express liners plying between Tokio and Vancouver make the run in ten days, which would be reduced to a mere thirty-two hours by air over a much longer distance of about 4.800 miles by way of Unalaska, in the Aleutian islands. It takes three weeks to go by ship from America to the Philippines, but on the Brazilian Clipper it would take about two and a half days, with stops at four midway points.

GUY CHURCHES OUTUNE DRIVE Evangehstic Campaign Set for Nov. 11 to 25; 60 Join Effort. - Simultaneous evangelistic effort during the period from Nov. 11 to 25 is being planned by a number of Protestant churches here as part of the evangelistic program of the Church Federation of Indianapolis, it was announced today by Dr. Ernest Evans. More than sixty churches will participate. Methods employed will vary in different churches, and the responsibility for the success of the movement will rest with the pastors and laymen of the individual churches. The Rev. U. S. Clutton, Tuxedo Park Baptist church pastor, is evangelism committee chairman for the church federation, which is supervising the movement. Other members of the committee include: The Rev. W. H. Kendall, the Rev. Sidney B. Harry, the Rev. W. W. Wiant, the Rev. R. W. Millard, the Rev. F. T. Taylor, the Rev. W. C. Ball, the Rev. C. J. G. Russom, the Rev. Henry T. Graham, the Rev. R. H. Mueller, the Rev. Guy O. Carpenter, the Rev. W. T. Jones, the Rev. Louis Crafton, the Rev. Garry L. Cook, the Rev. J. R. Flanigan, the Rev. George Kimsey, the Rev. Harvery J. Kieser, the Rev. Aubrey H. Moore, the Rev. C. H. Scheick, the Rev. M. W. Clair, the Rev. W. C. Hartinger, the Rev. Virgil P. Brock, the Rev. Clive McGuire, the Rev. H. B. Hostetter, the Rev. J. B. Parsons, the Rev. D. A. Kaley, and the Rev. H. E. Eberhardt, and Richard Tibbs, Karl Scheick, A. D. Moore, P. A. Wood, Walter Eggert, Lee Wekler, E. W. dark and E. F. Williams. ROTARY CLUB TO HEAR BEET SUGAR EXPERT Dr. J. Arthur Brock to Speak at Luncheon Today. Dr. J. Arthur Brock, educational secretary of the Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar Association, Saginaw, Mich., will address the Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday in the Claypool. Speaking on “Sugar,” Dr. Brock will discuss the history and development of the industry in the United ‘States and Europe.

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Australia, too, would be brought much closer to America, by this modern means. Passage by modem liners to Sidney takes twenty days. By air, it would be less than three days! All this is no mere dream. PanAmerican Airways, President Trippe pionts out, is well equipped by past experience to make such routes possible. a n “TN the Orient,” he says, “we have A developed an extensive air transport system with some 3.000 miles of airways now in operation “We already have completed extensive ground and meteorological surveys covering the route from the United States to the principal trade centers of Asia.

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP mama m a By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—A serious experiment in economic planning will get under w’ay next week when President Roosevelt's reorganized national emergency council holds its first meeting. For the first time an effort will be made to relate every policy of the New Deal to every other policy; to eliminate all inconsistencies and cross

purposes. Experiences of the last year and gibes of Republican campaigners have brought home to administration officials the need for such action. Before another campaign takes place they hope to have the machinery working as a single well-balanced unit. Responsibility for the jobs rests on Donald R. Richberg, executive director of the council. Four months ago he undertook a comparatively simple co-ordinating chore —relating policies of NRA, AAA and the relief administration. Today he finds himself with almost the whole machinery of the government on his hands. All the old departments, the new emergency boards, and a sprinkling of independent agencies are included in the new national emergency council. Its thirty-three members will meet every second Tuesday with President Roosevelt and conflicts in policies will be discussed and ironed out. u FOR the first time the governor of the federal reserve board will take part in general discussions of Deal policy. The president of the export-import banks and other officials concerned primarily with foreign trade prbblems will meet with the men concerned primarily with recovery at home. The chairman of the securities and exchange commission, whose duty it is to put the brakes on private investment, will discuss his problems with the men who are trying to push it ahead. It will be Mr. task to discover and eliminate the sort of inconsistency which bankers complained of recently. When they were reproached for not lending more freely to private industry they pointed out that federal bank examiners had been frowning on loans of the only kind they had a chance to make. These are some of the tangles awaiting attention. NRA code restrictions on production definitely limit the field in

\ By George Clark

Our technical staff, headed by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, is now studying the question of terminal facilities on the Pacific coast. “In approaching the new engineering problems involved in conducting transoceanic air services across the Pacific, we have been greatly aided by the practical experiences of four years’ operation directly across the Caribbean sea, still the longest over-water air transport service in the world.” And in this, Mr. Trippe may have the backing of the United States. For, says Postmaster James A. Farley, “The postoffice department will watch the development of this flight with a great deal of interest.”

which new investments may be made. Yet the administration is looking to private industry to expand, to buy new machinery from heavy goods industries and to put more ipn to work. The coal industry comj Jains bitterly about government hydroelectric power policies and says employment will increase rather than decrease, if the market for coal is restricted further. Liquor control problems are tangled badly with tax and tariff policies. u u k> TTEMPTS to make reciprocal agreements with other countries have repeatedly run afoul of attempts to keep alive domestic job-giving industries unable to compete without tariff protection. A decision must be made as to what board or bureau will handle the winter's employment drive involving as it does expenditure of large amounts for housing, grade crossing elimination and other projects. The housing administration, PWA, FERA and several other agencies are concerned. Interior and agriculture departments are engaged in a bitter dispute as to which shall control the country’s forests, national parks, siol erosion projects and subsistence homesteads. Interior and commerce departments are at odds over the bureau of mines. The only important new agency left out of the circle of Mr. Richberg's co-ordinating activities in the National Labor Relations Board and this caused comment today in view of recent conflicts between the board and the department of justice over enforcement of section 7A’s labor provisions in the Houde case. Mr. Richberg says the labor board was excluded because of its quasijudicial character. Federal activities in the field are to be co-ordinated as well as in •Washington. Substantial budget savings may be made if this policy extends to purchasing and disbursing activities of the different departments. OFFICERS NAMED- BY SENIORS AT MANUAL Walter Presecan, Football Squad Member, Elected President. Officers of the June ’35 Manual high school senior class were announced today. Walter Presecan, member of the football squad and prominent in other school activities, has been chosen president. Marjorie Howard was elected vicepresident: Helen Wheeler, secretary, and Louis Billiard, treas; er. The new officers named five ’ fMs of the class to serve on a color committee. They are Frances Snoddy, Zelda Schleuter, Geraldine Starisbury, Mary Sanford and Helen Hanson, Georgianna Amt is designer of the arm band which will be used by the seniors. HISTORY CLUB FORMED BY PUPILS AT TECH Thirty Members to Compose New Campus Organization. Approximately thirty pupils at Arsenal Technical high school will compose the membership of the History Club, now in process of organization there, it was announced today by O. E. Flick, Tech social studies department head. Norval Jasper presided as temporary chairman at an organization meeting with Jane Eberhart as acting secretary. Mary Mae Endsley, Madge Rutherford and Rosa Marquis make up the framing the club's constitution wMiss Endsley aa chairman. 11l

Fair Enough noon SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 3.—There seems to be a need for a transfer rule in California politics, somewhat on the order of the intercollegiate football rule which was designed to restrict the travels of the tramp athlete. In intercollegiate football, the tramp athlete, or carpet-bagger, was one who followed the inducements from campus to campus and from state to state, always playing as a loyal son of the alma mater which happened to offer most. The inducements sometimes were known to include educational advantages, but, as a rule, the

education was optional with the tramp athlete. Most of them emerged from their tours of the ivyclad halls of learning as dumb as they went in, but well-prepared for careers in professional wrestling. The mast interesting known example of the tramp athlete was a young man who began his career at Wabash college, reappeared at Syracuse university and rounded out his service as a loyal son of Eli Yale at New Haven. Conn. In referring to Eli Yale as an alma mater, your correspondent does not wish to suggest that Eli Yale was a sissy. There is an unfortunate confusion on this

point which never has been quite cleared up even in the minds of inveterate Yale sophomores. The Harvards have a similar problem. It is very ambiguous for a man to refer to himself as a loyal son of Eli Yale or John Harvard and speak of his school as his alma mater, too. However, the Yale and Harvard enigma is nothing by comparison with that of the loyal sons of the University of Arkansas. They also love their alma mater, but picture her as a razorback pig. a * a Just Let It Drop 'T'HE subject is unfortunate all around and your correspondent is sorry he brought it up. In picturing the case of the itinerant politicians of California, your correspondent feels some hesitancy about calling them tramp politicians. Nor does it seem quite prudent to call them political bums although many of them have made politics their life work for the same reason that the well-known class of tennis bums have devoted their best years to tennis. The reason is, of course, that it is an easy and well-fed existence for which somebody else always is putting up the money. Just now, the politics of California is dominated by politicians of a class which your corresp indent will call gypsy statesmen and let it go at that. They all came to California for the same general reasons which lured the farmers of lowa to the region of Los Angeles. The winters were comfortable for cold marrows and there seemed to be opportunities us make money more easily and amid much more pleasant surroundings. Blit it is impossible to keep a politician out of politics and consequently the native citizens of California have begun to wonder if there is anything in the laws of the state which forbids them to hold public office or meddle in the affairs of their own state. The two leading candidates for Governor of California are gypsies, to wit, Mahatma Upton Sinclair of Maryland, and Frank Merriam, the old wrist-flip horseshoe pitcher and prohibitionist from lowa. The third candidate, Ray Haight, is a native Californian but it has been understood all along that the only way the native could win would be through the withdrawal of Mr. Sinclair. It would be dangerous for Mr. Sinclair to do this because the election of a native might give the native population false ideas of their importance. After all, the native Californian exists only to feed and support the honorary or colonial Californians and he appqprs to be unfit for the responsibilities of self-government just yet. a a a That Would Be Some Fun WILLIAM G. M’ADOO, a native of Georgia, has been very kind to the natice Cialfornians. He came out here, a political dry, to a state which used to have an important wine industry, and lost no time telling the natives what was best for them. Mr. McAdoo thought prohibition was best for them and was generous enough to take over the duties of United States senator, which was nice of him, to be sure. Senator McAdoo still thinks prohibition would be best for the primitive natives of the state, a view which he shares with the present gypsy politician Governor, Mr. Merriam. Between them they may be able to revive prohibition in years to come and put the natives in their place. George Creel, of Kansas City, also offered himself as colonial Governor of the natives on the Democratic ticket but lost to Maha'ma Sinclair. He has taken more or less umbrage at tnis lack of appreciation and momentarily has picked up his marbles and quit the game, refusing to help elect either of the two other gypsies. There is need of a transfer rule in California politics but it is not very likely to pass. Such a rule might set the natives to thinking that they ought to enjoy social and political equality with the lowans. (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

IRON, copper, coal and petroleum make the modern world. But don’t forget sulphur. The others alone couldn’t turn the trick. Without sulphuric acid, there would be no machine age. This might just as well be called the age of sulphuric acid as the age of steel. Therein lies one of Uncle Sam’s secure claims to the future. For Uncle Sam comes very, very close to having a monopoly upon the world’s supply of sulphur. In 1929 there were only two nations which were important sources and sulphur and only six nations that produced any sulphur at all. The United States produced 85 per cent of the world’s supply. Italy came next with 11 per cent. Japan produced 2 per cent. Chile and Spain each contributed one-half of 1 per cent. Greece supplied an amount not sufficiently large to warrant tabulation. ass THE only sulphur reserves of any Importance, according to Mr. William P. Rawles, secretary of the mineral inquiry, are located in the United States. Italy and Chile. In chemical laboratories all over the world scientists are asking themselves the question, “How can we get along without sulphuric acid?’’ They are hunting for substitutes, for manufacturing processes which can get along without sulphuric acid. Commercial sulphuric acid is a water dilution of the pure or concentrated acid. The concentrated acid, known as “oil of vitriol,” is a thick, colorless, oily liquid, much heavier than water, which chars paper and cloth like fire, hisses like something alive when it touches water, and which is capable of dissolving away human flesh. Without this powerful oily liquid, mankind would soon find itself without steel, gasoline, lubricating oil, automobile tires, electric storage batteries, galvanized iron, white paper, leather, celluloid, dyestuffs, and a great array of synthetic drugs, perfumes, and the like. 000 IT also is required in the making of dynamite. most mining processes would come to a halt and the world would soon And itself without an adequate supply of metals. The American method of mining sulph. r, used in Texas and Louisiana, is the Frasch process, first introduced into Louisiana in 1891 by Dr. Hermann Frasch. Three concentric pipes, that is, a system of three pipes, one within the other, are driven down into the ground to where the sulphur deposits occur. A stream of compressed air Is forced down the center pipe. Water which is under pressure, and which therefore can be heated beyond the ordinary boiling point, is forced down the outermost pipe. This causes the sulphur to melt and rise in the middle or intermediate pipe of the system.

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