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ft Seems to Me HEVWOD DM the Rand School recently there was a symposium on the American drama and most of the speakers were pretty well cut up about the trend of the times. The road is surely sick ana Broadway’s lively color seems to many no more than a hectic flush. The proletarian play in terms such as “Stevedore and “Sailors of Cattaro” begins to make itself felt, here and there. On the other hand, proletarian dancing and the rebel idea of what constitutes a revue sketch seem to me excessively arty and dreary. In other words the commercial theater is too frivolous and as yet the radical groups have little skill in sneaking up on people through a satirical approach. I am not complaining of the fact that the theter stands as a house divided against itself. Such a

condition might make for all sorts of fights and liveliness. The plain truth of the matter is that the stage, as distinguished from the screen, has become the preoccupation of an over-precious minority, whether you view it from the right or from the left. , There are millions of people in America who have never seen a play and in all probability never will unless the art fakes on new habiliments and aspects. It is hardly likely that the public taste for a story told in action by living people has totally abated. The answer lies not in the field of art hut in the domain of eco-

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nomics. People stay away from the theater because it costs too much. Yet the average Broadway producer will be perfectly truthful in replying that his own costs have gone up rather than down and that he simply can not pay nis way in a first-class theater for a dollar top or anything approaching it. ana A Lack of Enterprise OTTLL this answer seems to me to confess a certain lark of enterprise. It rests upon the assumption that the structures reared through the frenzied and misguided vapors of a boom period constitute the only proper temples for the Muse. People talk of “a Broadway playhouse” as if that street were in some way hallowed ground providing the only proppr soil in which the drama may flourish. To be sure this is territory rich in nitrates, but there is the distinct possibility that the land has been overworked and for a time might well lie fallow’. Indeed the darkened doors of many showshops indicate that maybe Broadway isn't Broadway any more. It is always a sorry day when people begin to think of plays wholly in terms of structural steel, brick and mortar and the interest on the second mortgage. Ancient tradition, supported by a few modern instances, has shown that the theater lives and breathes wherever a few actors are gathered together to speak lines in the presence of an audience of one or less. Bernhardt used tents in barnstorming the country and other gallant troupers have done the same. They should again. I hate to see actors sitting around the Lambs or the Players or standing in front of the Palace bemoaning the lot of the artist who can not display his wares because he lacks any show window. Once a year the players put on a revival and the Lambs, in addition to a public gambol, keep the light burning through private performances in their owm small theater. But this is less than enough. The finest revue I ever saw in my 46 years in and around the theater was put on for a probable cost of a few hundred dollars. n m m What Makes the Theater? 1 REFER, of course, to the great Equity benefit at the time of the strike more than a dozen years ago. To be sure the troupe consisted of some of the best-known names in New’ York, but i_ depended not at all upon cloth of gold or an„’ kind of trappings. And, as a matter of fact, the man who captured the fullest approbation of a wildly enthusiastic audience was a practically unknown hoofer named Jim Barton. What actors have done once through co-operative effort they can do again Lest any friend of Well Wisher turn pale with fright and mutter in agonized horror. “Broun is going to do another ’Shoot the Works' ” let me explain that I am going to do nothing of the sort. Through experience, not particularly bitter, but still experience. I have succeeded in convincing myself that I am not an actor. But if I were an actor I would go out and act for pins or pennies in a back room or somebody’s cellar. I would not be content with that state of the profession in which players can not play because so many of the theaters have gone back to the banks and the trust companies. In my daily two-mile walk I generally pass a large modprn theater which has had not a single tenant lot some six or seven seasons. I'd like to see the actors, the musicians, the stage hands and the electricians knock upon such s door and say even to the unresponsive walls. “You are not the theater. We are the theater. How dare you keep us out?” iCopvrijrht. 1934)

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THERE are three great medicines in the treatment of tuberculosis which, when rightly used, are superior to any of those in drug stores. They are rest, food and fresh air. It was once though that fresh air was most important. food second, and rest last, but nowadays it is realized that the reverse order is correct. To give a patient with tuberculosis and a fever good food and insufficient rest has been likened to attempting to fill a barrel full of holes with water. The time that should be devoted to rest by the average man is approximately eight hours daily, during which he should sleep. However, persons who are ill need far more time for this purpose. The person with high blood pressure, the one with an incapacitated heart, the one with any rhronic disorder requires much more time flat on his back in bed. u m a IT has been suggested that a person in the early stages of tuberculosis, when the disease has just been discovered, should lie m bed all the time and for a while not be permitted to move either hand or foot. Visitors must be excluded and all excitement avoided. Anything that excites the patient and causes his heart to beat faster may break up a diseased area and release poisons into the circulation. When these poisons come into the blood and begin to circulate through the body, they cause fever, loss of appetite, loss of weight and of strength. Real rest means not only rest of the muscles and tissues but also of the mind. It is impossible for the mind to rest during conversation and it may even be overactive during reading. • * * IN 1904 there were only 40 sanatoriums in the United States where this kind of treatment could be given to the tuberculous. Today more than 65.000 beds are available and there are almost 700 sanatoriums. This does not begin, however, to supply the need, because there are possibly a million and a half cases of tuberculosis, and there are about 100.000 deaths from the disease each year. While it is possible to take care of persons with the disease at home, as must prevail when the total number of cases is considered in relationship to the number of beds available, the most certain control of the patient occurs when he is in a suitably regulated institution. Apparently the location of the institution is not ao significant as the quality of service that it supplies. While there are some climates in which patients with tuberculosis aeem to do better, it is now known that the condition may be scientifically treated in any climate If the patient is properly co-operative and If the doctors, nurses and attendants understand the nature ol scientific care.

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THE MURDER OF BABY LINDBERGH

Mystery of Violet Sharpe’s Suicide Still Baffles Police

Th following dispitrb. HTrnlh In thr Sidney B. Whipple series on the Lindbergh crime, tells the story of Violet Sharpe, that strsnyely hysterical servant In the Morrow home whose soiride led the police, for a time, to believe she was implicated In the kidnaping. The Sharpe tragedy provided one of the most dramatic Interludes in the main drama. n m * BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE t'nited Press Staff Correspondent tCpDvrißht. 1934. bv United Press! THE below-stairs world within the Morrow mansion at Englewood was ruled by one who rejoiced in the name of Septimus Banks. Butler, major-domo, chief seneschal of the household for untold years, Septimus Banks was long the favored servant of Senator Morrow, and he ruled his small kingdom with a firm but kindly hand. A primly correct and precise man. Banks had little time for frivolity. and perhaps little inclination as well. The limit of his excursions into the world of pleasure was an occasional visit fcb New York, where he might gravely imbibe prohibition beer in one of the more respectable speakeasies that abounded in the upper fifties during that era. Beyond that, he had permitted himself the luxury of falling in love with a young woman who had joined thp staff of 29 servants some two years previously. It appeared to be understood that Septimus Banks was keeping company with Violet ShaTpe. a personable English serving maid, and that some day they would be married. Whether Banks’ dignity palled upon her. or whether she was by nature inclined to flirtatiousness Violet occasionally tempered the strict

bonds of her betrothal by outside excursions v'hich would greatly have upset the estimable butler had he been aware of what was going on. * So it came about that, on the Sunday afternoon before the kidnaping. while Violet and her sister Edna were walking in their Sabbath finery just outside the town, a young gentleman named “Ernest” offered them a ride in his automobile, and they accepted. Before the girls had reached the Morrow home, Violet had agreed to a date with Ernest, for the evening of Tuesday, March 1. 000 THE police questioning of the 29 Morrow servants and the three Lindbergh servants, all of whom were on the friendliest terms, had proceeded methodically and smoothly. Each servant, under the insistent questioning of the various detectives, had been able to meet the most searching of inquisitions into their lives, into their whereabouts on the night of the kidnaping, and into their associates. But when Violet was questioned, the police were puzzled by an amazing attitude of defiance. Violet's moods, under the personal investigation, ran the gamut of emotions. By turns she would b? stubbornly silent and hysterically garrulous. She would be saucy, pert, and change to a tone of sullen anger. She lied about her engagement on the night of March 1, and as she lied she winked, over her

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

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Bonus payment advocates are losing no time in getting their bail rolling on Capitol Hill. The Veterans of Foreign Wars already have a lobby working on incoming members ... Democratic casualties in the recent Congressional election are banging on Administration doors for appointive berths. Two Missourians, Ralph F. Lozier and James E. Ruffin, are after places on the United States Tariff Commission and an assistant attorney generalship . . . Curtis B. Dali, former son-in-law of the President, ha? ahanrirmpri

the brokerage business to devote all his time to the Distillers and Brewers' Corp., of which he is-a director. The company both manufactures and imports liquor . . . Minnesota’s ex-convict former Rep. Francis Shoemaker has told friends that he is going into the newspaper publishing business in Duluth. He will prepare to run against Senator Tom Schall when that violent-worded Old Guarder comes up for re-election in 1936. . . . Heavy-set Bertrand Wesley Gearhart, new Republican Representative from Southern California, comes to Washington with a unique distinction. Forty-four years old. an overseas veteran, and former State American Legion Commander, he was electea without opposition, being supported by both Republicans and Democrats. n ar a JOHNSONS muchheralded book will be published some time in March. Before that, it will come out in eight installments in the Saturday Evening Post beginning in early January. Johnson is getting money from the Post rivaling that paid Calvin Coolidge. He has rewritten the book four times and taken a lot of the spice out, though it still contains some indirect criticism of the President. . . . Katrina McCormick, daughter of staunch Republican Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, attended Mrs. Roosevelt’s masquerade party attired as Greta Garbo. On her back was a placard: “I tank I go home, it bane genin' stuffy here.” . . . FERA officials say they are still waiting to get Senator Borah's specific charges ; against its administration of rei lief. More than a month has passed since he threw a bombshell into the FERA camp, but the promised detailed charges have not materialized. FERA officials are accustomed to strange requests for relief, but one of the strangest came from a Russian citizen in the Volga Basin asking aid for his family ... State Department dispatches from Bucharest report that American firms doing business in Rumania have to pay a commission to Mme. Lupescu. titian-haired friend of King Carol . . . Alice Roosevelt Longworth refers to softie of the spinster ladies, friends of her cousin. Eleanor Roosevelt, as "The Female Impersonators.” a a a FRIENDS of Senator Royal S. Copeland report that he is planning to offer anew pure food and drug bill at the coming session. Miffed at what he considers was a Presidential snub during the recent election, however, the carnation-wearing New Yorker will not consult with Administration authorities on the legislation, intends going it alone . . . There are three members of the Senate who have a unique association.

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shoulder at the housekeeper. Her story was that she had gone to a movie, on the night of the kidnaping, with “Ernest,” whose last name she did not know. 000 THE police, figuratively, set her asics for further questioning, at about tlle time the Lindbergh baby’s body was found. Meanwhile. Violet spent a week in a hospital, undergoing a minor operation. In May, the investigation was resumed. The New Jersey inquisitorial forces had moved their headquarters to Alpine, and it was proposed to take the serving maid there for renewed questioning. They were certain she had been to no movie on the fateful night, for she had been unable to give them any description of the play. A search of Violet’s rooms had disclosed little of save a number of business cards of the “Post Road "Taxi Cos., Ernest Brinckert, Proprietor,” at White Plains, New York. To trace down Ernest, Brinckert was the work of but a few hours. The speculation of detectives was heightened when it was learned that Brinckert had a police record—a record of minor offenses, to be sure, but nevertheless a record. They brought photographs of the youth to Violet, who identified them as those of the “Ernest” with whom she had been out on the night of March 1!

Minnesota’s youthful Senator Bennett Clark as a boy used to visit the House, over which his father, Champ Clark, presided as Speaker, and sit on the laps of Utah's William King and Illinois’ J. (Ham) Lewis then members of the House, now Senate colleagues of Clark . . Huey Long Is considering taking his time about coming back to the Senate. Word has come from Louisiana that the Kingfish plans to make his entry after the session gets into full swing . . . The whisper has permeated Nebraska circles that Harry Coffee, wealthy, young newly-elected Representative %-om the western part of the state, is the choice of Democratic boss Arthur Mullen if Senator George Norris decides not to run again in 19*36. Coffee, it is said, is to be "built up” during the next 18 months as a prospective senatorial candidate. (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

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Violet Sharpe . . . Tragic Figure

Violet’s identification was utterly false! 000 ON THE following morning, while the police were rounding up the suspected Brinckert, they prepared to take the maid to Alpine. “I will never go there,” she told her fellow servants. Capt. John J. Lamb and a special detail of sleuths appeared at

0. E. S. CHAPTER TO INSTALL OFFICERS Mrs. Stella Johnson to Take Matron’s Chair. Officers of Corinthian Chapter, 456, O. E S. will be installed during public ceremonies Thursday night, Dec. 27, at Evergreen Masonic Hall, 2515 W. Washington-st. Mrs. Stella Johnson will be installed at Worthy Matron to succeed Mrs. Alice Conkle, retiring Worthy Matron. Other officers to be installed include: Harry Bryant, Worthy Patron; Ennis Suesz, Associate Matron; Sylvester Butler, Associate Patron; Merle Kester, Secretary; Malinda Fowler, Treasurer; Maude Case, Conductress; Ruth Hancock, Associate Conductress; Maude Dean, Chaplain; Clara Lincks, Marshal; Georg'a Manville, Organist; Gladys Shakelford, Adah; Ruth Mcllquh;.m, Ruth; Patty Belle Robbins, Est'ier; Remine Lincks, Martha; Eva Leerkamp, Electa; Florence Bryint, Warder; Jacob C. Layton, Sen. inel. The grand installing officer will be Martha Zoercher; Alice Conkle. grand marshal; Ida Meister, grand chaplain and Sophia McMullen, Grand Secretary.

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the Morrow home at 10 a. m. and told the girl to prepare herself for the short trip. She rushed upstairs. Ten minutes later there was a thud, as of a body falling, in the butler’s pantry. The housekeeper, rushing in, stumbled upon Violet's body. She had swallowed a solution of cyanide of potassium—used for

I COVER THE WORLD a tt n tt tt u By William Philip Simms -

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—World recovery is under way 'and the United States is well up among the leading nations, according to Willard L. Thorp, chairman of the NRA Advisory Council. Canada, Japan and Sweden top the list, with the United States. Great Britain and Australia next, Chairman Thorp reports in a survey made for Foreign Affairs, published today.

Dr. Thorp, who formerly taught economics at Amherst, adds that the gold bloc countries—France, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland—show the least evidence of p-ogress. Germany is advancing in the domestic field but foreign trade reverses leave her situation far from good. Dr. Thorp bases his observations on four indices—industrial production, unemployment, wholesale prices and foreign trade. The six countries first mentioned show improvement in all four, he says, while the gold bloc nations are lagging in all four. a a a RECORDS of world business conditions,” - he notes, "reveal a decided tendency for movements to be similar in various countries. We can readily discern what might be described as a world pattern of prosperity and depression, with peaks in 1890, 1900, 1907, 1913, 1920 and 1929.” Periods of world prosperity, he further observes, seem to end with a considerable degree of abruptness, whereas periods of depression terminate far more gradually. “As to the recession of 1929," he says, “there can be no doubt that definite evidence of recovery began to appear in many countries in the last half of 1932. Although there were many instances of backsliding in the early months of 1933, the upward trend was again clearly in evidence by summer. Like all revivals, it has not been uniform; it has been extremely ragged.” Industrial production "is clearly upward,” says Dr. Thorp, though it varies with the different countries. In this respect the United States occupies a middle position. a a a THE three centers of most severe unemployment during the depression have been the United States. Germany and the United Kingdom. Together, in 1933, their unemployed aggregated 20.500.000. By August, 1934. this was reduced to approximately 15 million. "All available evidence,” however, "reveals persistently high records for unemployment in nearly every country.” Wholesale prices have been advancing in the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia. Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany and Czechoslovakia. Among the countries showing the reverse tendency, Poland, France. Belgium and Italy suffered the greatest declines. Foreign trade is still very unsatisfactory. "There has been no general recovery in this respect.” records Dr. Thorp. In fact, when measured m gold prices, it seems to have reached anew low at the third quarter of 1J34. Some improvement is noted in volume, however. It is yet too early, Dr. Thorp warns, to draw conclusions. But there is one tremendously important outstanding feature. "For

cleaning—and lived only long enough to make her way from her room to the ground floor. Immediately the detective s’ hearts leaped within them. Here, at last, they thought, was the solution to the most baffling crime of the century. “Her suicide,” it was solemnly announced, “may be taken as a confession of guilt.” 0 0 0 t Ernest brinckert, blinking in amazement at his unexpected arrest, Willingly with the police to New Jersey, bu£ protested not only that he hadn't been out with Violet, but that he didn't even know the girl. As for his business cards, found in her room, he hadn't the slightest idea how they happened to be there. For days, wearied detectives attempted to beat down Brinckert’s story. His alibi was air-tight. His proof w’as perfect. He had never laid eyes ori Violet Sharpe. At this juncture another character entered the play. A young man presented himself to the police and said: “I am the Ernest with w’hom Violet Sharpe went out in the evening of March 1. But we didn’t go to a movie. We went to the Peanut Grill and drank beer.” This was Ernest Miller, and the story of his meeting w’ith Violet and Edna, and his subsequent excursion with the maid checked completely with the police knowledge of those events. 000 THEN w'hy did Violet Sharpe identify Ernest Brinckert’s photograph as that of her escort? Was it for pure malice, out of hatred for the police w’hom she regarded as tormenters? And w’hy did she lie in the first place, over a relationship which, w’hile it might have had unhappy reaction from the direction of the sober Septimus Banks, certainly was not criminal? The probability is that the authorities were dealing with a case of hysteria induced by fear. Her promised marriage to the butler was jeopardfeed. To a woman of her position, approaching 30. this was tragedy. Wearily, the police checked off the Violet Sharpe file from their dossiers, to begin anew, and more brilliant, attack upon the problem. They turned, drawn by the magnet of logic, toward the Bronx. Tomorrow: The Trail of the Ransom Bills.

the first time in history,” he says, "a conscious effort has been made on virtually a world scale to introduce social controls into the process of bringing a depression to and end. “In the past, governments have stood aside and waited for natuI ral forces’ to produce revival. But on this occasion the governments of the world, with a steadily shortening list of exceptions, have undertaken positive and extensive action to initiate and support an upward movement.” CONFERENCE HELD BY ATTENDANCE OFFICERS Problems of Group Discussed at Central District Session. School attendance officers of the central district of Indiana met yesterday at the Lincoln and discussed problems of the errant schoolboy with state and Indianapolis authorities. Speakers Floyd I. McMurray. State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Miss Margaret E. Paddock, State Attendance Director: Miss Estle M. Fisk, School Commissioners’ visitor, and Miss Bertha O. Leming, Public School Social Service assistant supervisor. President of the attendance officers’ group is Mrs. Eleanor White, Shelbyville; vice present. Robert McNeff. Morgan County, and secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth Tyre. RESERVATIONS POUR IN FOR SULLIVAN DINNER Chamber Prepares for Meeting in Honor of Retiring Mayor. A number of reservations have been made at the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce for the chamber's testimonial dinner tomorrow night in honor of Mayor Reginald H. SuHivan. Toastmaster for the dinner, which will be held in the Claypool Riley room, will be Fred Hoke, state National Emergency Council director. Responses will be given by Governor Paul V. McNutt, Dr. Louis Hopkins, Wabash College president; Mrs. Walter Greenough, Louis J. Borinstein, chamber president; Arthur V. Brown, Indianapolis Clearing House Association president, and Dr. Carleton B. McCullough. City Park Board member. CAROLS TO BE SUNG AT STATEHOUSE BY BUND Special Chorus to Give Program at 11 Thursday. Lobby and corridors of the Statehouse will reverberate with Christmas carols at 11 Thursday morning. The carols will be sung by a mixed chorus of 35 voices from the Indiana School for the Blind under direction of Mrs. Georgia Caldwell Isgrigg. The public is invited.

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Fair Enough EWtll PRiIH! IZ NOX COLLEGE of Galesburg. 111., has lost 27 consecutive football games in a lemarkable string of defeats dating back to the season of 1931. In that year Knox played the United States Military Academy and lost the game, but scored some points. Such has been the famine in football matters at Knox that the alumni, .when they get together, still hark back to the season of 1931 and the team that scored on the Army. Knox College is the alma mater of the late George Fitch, who wrote the Siwash

stories of the barbarian age of intercollegiate football. Mr. Fitch's principal character was Ole Skjarsen, a local teamster or ashman with a kindergarten intellect and a lowcomedy accent, who performed mighty feats for the Siwash varsity. Ole capped his career by running the wrong way in the big game of the year. This invention of a rising young fictioneer .seemed incredible until a day in 1929 when Roy Reigels of California did the same thing in the big game against Georgia Tech. Like Ole Skjarsen. Mr. Reigels was tackl#d end Drought down by one of his own men just in time to prevent

his crossing his own goal. Thus, long after his his death, it was demonstrated that Mr. Fitch had not exceeded the bounds of possibility, but had merely scooped the truth by more than 20 years'. With his Siwash pieces as a leaping start in the fiction business, Mr. Fitch seemed likely to become a rich author when he suddenly died. He is remembered at Knox College, however, as one of the mast illustrious alumni on the roster because, under the name of Siw’ash, he made Knox famous. Everybody seemed to sense that Siwash was Knox and that he was using Knox as a model to interpret life at a typical fresh-water college. 000 Smarter Than Those Trained Minds 'IT' NOX has remained typical ever since then while college life has undergone great changes all around So Knox today is unique as the last of the typical fresh-water schools. Tw’enty years ago, old Siwash was playing in fast company. Strange as it may seem now. in view’ of the recent record of 27 consecutive defeats, Siwash used to meet Notre Dame, Illinois, Kansas and Chicago and ask no quarter and win a few. That was in the Ole Skjarsen era. There were Ole Skjarsens all over the scene at that time. Illinois had one, a janitor, who received S3OO cash, in advance, for a season’s work with the varsity, but yelled in fright whenever any one tackled him and presently refused to carry the ball at all. They had to fire their man, but he had their money and didn’t care, proving that the ignorant janitor was a trifle brighter than the trained minds of the university who hired him. It used to be a custom among the sorority sisters at Siwash to send their pretty little pledges cruising dow’n Cedar Fork in a boat race row’ed in oldfashioned Saturday night tin bathtubs. Cedar Fork is a captured and humiliated brook which serves as a drainage sewer parallel to the Santa Fe tracks. At the street crossings, Cedar Fork runs underground through brick tunnels. There were many shipwrecks in the tunnels and *he hulks of the old bathtubs strew' the banks of Cedar Fork to this day. Cedar Fork is the Siwash waterfront. It is their Carnegie Lake, their Schuylkill, their Cayuga and their Severin. They do not like you to call it Goase Crick or the drainage sewer. tt tt tt Facing a Golden Opportunity 'T'HERE was a little trouble at Siwash one evening this fall when the students, few of whom could remember ’way back to the last Siwash victory, decided to celebrate a victory anyway, and charge it to the future. They w’ent out and painted up the the statue of Mother Bickerdyke, who was a local Florence Nightingale in the Civil War. The mayor of Galesburg was very cross about this and Dr. Albert Britt, the president of Siwash, had to go down to the city hall and fix things. The students turned to with turpentine and laboriously unpainted Mother Bickerdyke and the next day Beloit College gave Siwash another licking. : Next year’s Siw’ash team w’ill face a golden opportunity in the first game. Win or lose, they will distinguish themselves. If they win, they break the losing streak. If they lose they break the record for consecutive defeats which Siwash now shares with Hobart College of Geneva, New York. The alumni are calm about it all and many of them have a secret hope that Siwash will lose that first one in 1935. After losing 27 games they are not content to be tied with Hobart, but want a record. After that Siwash may win. if God insists. There is a strong Scotch element in the Siwash alumni. The reasons for this go ’way back nobody knows where. It w'as characteristic of this strain, however, when the'alumni suggested this fall that henceforth, in the interests of economy, Siwash get along with one set of goal posts. (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Todays Science BY DAVID DIETZ

RAIN dries the air. More air goes up than ever comes down. To cool air, heat it. To warm air. cool it. Not air that is heated, but air that is not heated, is thereby warmed. Mixing brings the air to a non-uniform temperature. The coldest air covers the warmest earth. Let me hasten to explain that this is not a guestcolumn representing the collaboration of Gertrude Stein. Harpo Marx and Joe Penner. The seven brief statements printed in the opening paragraph have been copied verbatim from the from the printed work of a learned scientist, the meteorological physicist of the United States Weather Bureau, Dr. William J. Humphreys. And they are all true! Now you will have some notion of the difficulties of weather forecasting. They are taken from the just-published second edition of Dr Humphreys’ delightful little book, “Weather Proverbs and Paradoxes.” The first part of the book divides false proverbs from true ones and then proceeds to explain the physical basis of reality which underlies the proverbs that can be-counted on to work. n * m THE second part pit the book sets forth such startling paradoxes of nature as those already mentioned and then proceeds to explani why they are true in spite of their “Alice in Wonderland” sound. Let us give away the secret of one of these paradoxes—that rain dries the air. Dr. Humphreys points out that evaporation is always causing water to enter the atmosphere in the form of water vapor. When it rains, water falls out of the atmosphere. Hence, the humidity is lowered by the amount of water that fell as rain. Rain may wet the ground but it dries the air. m m n IF it were not for the rain, the humidity would rise to an intolerable degree all over the world. The chief function of Dr. Humphreys’ book is not to startle you but to make you weather-wise, to help you develop a weather eye. It seeks to make you take a lively but understanding interest in the wither. The book should makp a particular appeal to golfers, hunters, hikers, yachtsmen, and all those who enjoy the outdoors. If you number such among your friends or relatives, here is a hint for your Christmas shopping. Beautiful photographs of clouds, fogs and storms enhance the book. It is published by Williams St Williams at $3.

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