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It Seems to Me HEYWOOD Bern MR HEARSTS New York American contained a “bedtime story” on Its editorial page last week. It concerned a man who believed so utterly in free speech that he allowed this liberty even to group* which would suppress it. In the end they fame into power and set him in front of a firing squad His last words were those of Voltaire: “I do not agree with a word that you say. but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” And Mr. Hearst’s editorial writer really thinks
that is a comic story. The motto with which he adorns the tale runs "And this, children, was the origin and end of the American Civil Liberties Union.” The commentator seems to feel that he has succeeded in reducing the principles of that organization to an absurdity. In a more recent article in the Herald-Tribune. Walter Lippmann takes a strikingly similar position in regard to the rase of John Strachey. I was about to put the phrase “curiously enough ’ right after Mr. Lippmann s nam-' in the preceding sentence. I decided to leave it out because it
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would make the sentence too long and for other reasons Walter Lippmann rides John Strachey because the voting Englishman espouses a proletarian dictatorship in a Communist state and asks for free speech in a democratic one. Mr. Lippmann expresses a tepid and well restrained passion for free speech. He thinks, "the question is one of prudent policy rather than of right.” If Strachey is allowed to speak in America it should be solely on the ground that he isn't dangerous. On any broader basis Mr. Lippmann argues that, “the test is whether the advocate of change who uses civil liberty means to maintain that same civil liberty for those who, when he is in power, do not agree with him.” But m these terms Mr. Lippmann isn't talking of free -peech at all. He is merely dealing with reciprocal speech, a dicker of so much for so much, a gold inlay for a gold inlay, a pair of bi-focals for a pair of bi-focals. This isn't liberty. It s log-rolling. mm m Xnl the Easiest 11 ay N’FTTHER William Randolph Hearst nor Walter Lippmann has actually reduced Voltaire and his stirring words to an absurdity. I, too. have a bedtime storv to offer m opposition to that presented by the publisher: Once upon a time there lived in France a man named Francois Mane Arouet de Voltaire. And he was a scholar and a skeptic. He wanted to know - all things and listen to every theory. And so he had a pa .vs ion for free speech and he committed himself utterly to this principle in words which will bear a s. cond repetition even within a single column. He said to He 1 vet 1 us: ** *T do not agree with a word that vou sav. but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ ■ And these words of Voltaire's became the very comer stone upon which the fundamental right of free -peech rested. But in the course of the years men and women found that it was not an easy wav of life If vour enemv wanted to speak it was hard to avoid a hankering hope that the cops would come in and club him In time of war. people quite calmly threw free speech into some high cupboard closet with the vague hope that maybe they would find it again after the hostilities were over. And so it came about that nobody ever did look tnto that forgotten cupboard as long as anything of a reallv controversial nature was stirring. It became a habit to say. Oh that ran wait. Free speech t a fine thing. But not just now. Later on maybe. m m m Turning Over in His Grave -a ND” to go vith the story, "eventually mtel/Vlectual voung men came from the left and came from the right and rationale the words of Voltaire And thev explained that he hade t really made himself clear. They pictured him as just about to utter ringing words about his willingness to die for the principle and then suddenly remembering something. . . . _ They would have him breaking off and interJrctinc the question, ‘but. of course, before I commit mvself to defending your right to say what you please you must make a binding agreement with me that when the situation is reversed you will come to my aid with equal vigor.’ “And that is why. children. Voltaire began to turn over in hus grave when the cause of liberalism fell into the hands of Walter Lippmann and William Randolph Hearst. And since both gentlemen are articulate and frequently contribute to the newspapers vou mav understand just why it is that at the present time the great Voltaire, who championed untrammeled free speech, is now known to his fellow shades as Whirling Francois’.’’ iCopvniht, IMM
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11 THEN your body fails to work satisfactorily, the W disorder may be the result of one of two tvpo' of disturbances, or in many instances to both. Actual changes m the tissues are called structural di-cases. For example, a broken bone, an inflamed liver, or an inefficiency of the body to digest and assimilate sugars properly might be called structural disease. Sometimes, because of the ability of Shine tissues to repair this structural disease, you can co on to complete recovery. In other cases, the damace may be permanent Certain tissues of the body have specific duties to perform -for example, the cells of the lung, the heart, the liver, or the brain. If these cells are destroyed and are not replaced by the same type of cells that formerly existed there, the organ is damaged to a certain extent. man \jO UR body contains considerable safety factors. Thus vou have two lungs when one can do the work; two kidneys, a liver that is seven times as large as is necessary - for carrying out its functions, and a heart which frequently carries on its work m a very badlv damaged condition. A considerable number of persons get along with less brain capacity than do others. If cells become inflamed, they may be replaced bv cells of the same kind, or sometimes their place Is taken bv cells of fibrous or scar tissue. If you cut sour hand, the scar which is formed is not of the same kind of tissue as the skin damaged by the cut. If the cells of the pancreas, called the islands of Langerhans. are damaged, they are not repaired by tissue of the same kind, but instead by fibrous tissue. These are the cells primarily responsible for development of the substance called insulin, which is necessary' for use of sugar in the body. If enough damage is done to these special cells, diaberes follows. ana THFRF are howe\er. other kinds of disease in which no definite chance is found in any cells of the boriv. This is particularly the case in conditions affecting the mind If a person becomes convinced in his own mind that he can not talk, he will be unable to talk until he is unconvinced; ts he becomes convinced that he ran not walk, he will not be able to walk until he is unconvinced Through failure to walk, he loses the power or motion in the muscles involved in walking Through disuse they waste away The joints, being eontrnun one position, may become fixed. Then compete recovery is difficult even if the person is unconvinced later. This is the sequence of events in conditions railed h\stena. It is obvious that although these things begin as functional, they may develop into physical disturbances and interfere seriously with life.
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CHAPTER THIRTY Waterloo npiiE conquerors of the man who had been master of all Western Europe granted him, out of charity, a crumb of kingship—the island of Elba, in the Mediterranean Sea, with 11,380 subjects in all, according to the Gazetteer of Elba published that year. Napoleon's first impressions of the island were agreeable. Ma bonne Louise. I was 4 days at sea in calm weather. I did not suffer in Ihe least; I have arrived in the Island of Elba, which is very pretty, the accommodation is but middling, I will have a home fitted up in a very few weeks. I have had no letter from you. It is my daily sorrow. My health is very good. Adieu, mon amie. you are far away, hut my thoughts are with my Louise. A losing kiss to my son. Tout a toi. Nap. Portofcravo, May 4th. 1 1814) Ma bonne Louise, I have no* been here 5 days; I am having fairly nice quarters fitted up. with a garden and in very good air; l shall be there in three days’ time. My health is perfect; the island is healthy, the inhabitants are apparently of a kindly disposition. What is wanting is to hear from you and lo know you are well; I have been without news of you since the letter you wrote to me and which reached me at Ferjus. Adieu, mon amie, give a kiss to my son and never doubt your Nap. Portoferajo, May oth. (1814) Despite the distant attitude his father-in-law* had adopted at the turning-point of his career, Napoleon bore him no ill-feeling. And he did justice to the Austrian general who, during the voyage on the English frigate, showed the fallen Emperor the respect that was his due. Perhaps he might, enjoy his life once more, if only Marie Louise would deign to come and share it. Ma bonne Louise, I have received your letters No. 8 and 11. dated Jurx? 22nd. the rest have gone astray. The news you give me of your health and of my son gives me great pleasure. I think you should come as soon as possible to Tuscany, where then? are verv good waters, much like those of Aix-en-Savoie. It will have every advantage; you will be -nearer Parma, you will be able to have your son with you and you will give nobody any trouble. Your visit to Aix has nothing hut disadvantages. If this letter finds you there, remain only for the season, and come on to Tuscany for your health. My health is goodi my feelings toward you are ever the same and my iesire to see you and prove this to you is very great. Adie. ma bonne amie. a loving kiss to my son. Tout a toi. Nap. July 3rd, 1814. mam Napoleon, on Elba, longed for his wife's presence. He reserved the best rooms for her use. all of them cool and charming; six rooms she was to have in the old Spanish citadel at PortoLongone. overlooking the seas. He added a story to his house at Porto Ferrajo. Marie was writing less often. She sent a letter, by way of Parma, on July 31. On Aug. 10. making the ugly fact of her desertion of her husband with loving protestations and promises to join him soon, she informed the emperor that she had to return to Vienna, out of deference to her father's wishes. As though a wife's first duty were not to obey her husband ! But. already her evil genius was active at her side; Neipperg. the Austrian who had been appointed to escort her to Vienna in the capacity of rhevalier d'honneur — the soldier whom Napoleon had routed in ihe field, only to suffer this final revenge. That letter, written on Aug. 10. was the last the emperor received. Or Auc. 18 he was beginning to grow anxious. Among the numbered letters he received, some numbers, he observed, were missing: it was clear that his wife's correspondence was being watched and intercepted. And her silence rankled in his heart. Yet he had not abandoned hope. "Madame Mere.” L-aetitia Bonaparte. was at his side: and who better than a mother can console a sorrowing soul ? He expected his wife to come at the season of the grape harvest, looked forward to acquainting her with the mixture of white wine and herbs known in the island as vermout. With the arrival of Princess Borghese. nee Bonaparte, there would be quite a family gathering. And Napoleon made pilgrimages to the shrine of the Madonna di Marciana. on Monte Giove, when he could see. far off on the horizon, his native island. Corsica. Island of Elba. Auc. 18 <lßl4l. Ma bonne Louise. I have written to you frequently: I presume you have done the same, yet I have received none of your letters since the one written within a few days of your departure from Vienna. I have had no news of my son. such conduct is very stupid and atrocious. Madame is here and in good health: her accommodation is good. My health is good. Your apartments are ready for you and I look forward to seeing you in September for the vintage. No one has any right to stand in the way of your coming. I have written to you on the point. So mind you come. I am awaiting you with impatience. You are aware of all the sentiments 1 bear you. I will write nothing more
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At Elba, in his great house amid a grove of chestnut trees and so high that on all sides he could gaze over the Mediterranean, Napoleon awaited Marie Louise. He was sure she would .join him. He set apart, for the summer, the best and coolest rooms for her. Summer passed, and the shason of the grape harvest followed. But still the empress did not rome. Then came his escape from Elba, the cheering crowds greeting him in France, himself again with his army behind him, once more emperor—then Waterloo, and the second and final exile to St. Helena. The famous painting of Bonaparte aboard the Rellerophon. reproduced above, shows him toward the last, in his aloof greatness, hound f or the roekv island whirh he himself designated as “the pinnacle of my glory.”
today, as this letter may not reach vou. Adio. mio bene. NAP. Ma bonne amie. I have received vour letter No. 19. dated August 10th. I presume you have received mine since. I was glad to hear Corvisart was with you. I am here in a hermitage, about 2000 feet above sea level, overlooking the Mediterranean on all sides, and in the midst of a forest of chestnut trees. The spot is a very pleasant one. My health is very good. I spend part of the day shooting; I long to see you, and also my son. I shall be glad to see Isabel. There are some very fine landscapes to he drawn, here. Adieu ma bonne Louise. Tout a toi. Your NAP. La Madonna di Marciano, August 28th <1814). Many thanks for what you sent me. a a a “T AM patiently awaiting you.” The woman who came to visit the exile in his solitude, on Sept. 1, was his mistress of another day, Countess Walewska, with her son. But what was Marie Louise doing? Aix en Savoie, where she received her husband’s pleading let-ters—Aix-les-Bains, where Marie Louise was recuperating—stands like a frontier boundary-post, marking a turning-point of history. "I intend to return to Vienna about the beginning of October,” she wrote to her bosom friend, Victcire de Poutet. “Try to stay on till then. This spa has benefited my health; I take the baths regularly, and they have done my chest a great deal of good.” Os Napoleon she has ceased to speak. Far from going to join her husband. she returned once more to her father’s palace. “Do come back to see the recluses of Schonbrunn,” she wrote to her friend, “for really we deserve that name, considering the way we live here in the midst of a gay crowd intent on fetes and dancing, whose only care is to amuse themselves.” If we are to believe a scrap of gossip retailed by Charlotte de Sor, Napoleon was talked of in the Viennese Court of those days as “the gentleman at Elba.” But a day dawned when “the gentleman at Elba” was once again “the Emperor.” From the “Inconstant” —so aptly named—he landed on the Frpnch shore of Golfe Juan, on March 1, 1815. His progress to the capital was one long ovation. On March 12. at Lyons, he wrote to Marie Louise; Meneval has recorded the gist of his letter: “Summoned by the French nation. I have answered their appeal. Everywhere I have been greeted with enthusiasm. In a few days I shall be in Paris. I count on you
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and my son to meet me there at the end of the month.” Marie Louise was flustered, unable to make up her mind. “One day she told me she would not go back to France, because she could not see the least hope of peace for the country. Next day she said that, if the Emperor would give up his schemes of conquest and reign peacefully, she had reason to think that no obstacle would be put in the way of her return to France and she felt no distaste for living there again, as she had always had a liking for the French.” Such were the statements made by her to Baron Meneval. But the chevalier d'honneur whom the Austrian Emperor had assigned to her —General Neipperg —was at her side. On April 11, writing to her friend Victoire de Poutet. she deplored his departure. “Now I have absolutely no one to advise me; in my present situation, and considering my age. I still need somebody of the kind.” In May she wrote again: “I have not seen anything of General Neipperg for the last eighteen days.” So she had come to the stage of counting the days! Napoleon’s messengers found the frontiers of Austria closed to them. Montrond, who managed to get through, thanks to an episcopal passport, informed Meneval with a smile —we may be skeptical about the “smile”—that he had been given a free hand to kidnap the Empress disguised as a man. “I can not say when the Empress will go to France.” Meneval admitted on April 7, 1815, in a secret answer to a message from Napoleon. Indeed her feelings had been worked upon to such an extent that the Empress was terrified at the thought of returning to France. During the last six months everything possible had been done to estrange her from her husband. “Last Sunday, when I was dining with the Empress, alone, Her Majesty told me that she had come to an irrevocable decision; never to return to the Emperor.” ON April 13. a letter from Napoleon reached Vienna, but as it was intercepted, Marie Louise was given only a summary of its contents by word of mouth. Nevertheless. another letter, the last of all. reached her hands; it was Meneval who transmitted it. Marie Louise refused to read it. “I have sworn to hand over everything to my father,” she explained to her secretary, that dependable man whom the emperor had appointed to her service. Meneval. who had so nobly carried out his mission despite “a cloud of loathsome spies,” was compelled to leave Vienna. On May 12 the allies declared war on France.
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1935
By George Clark
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Meneval bade good-by to the little King of Rome, telling him he was going back to France and would see his father there. “Monsieur Mera. please tell him I love him as much as ever,” the poor child said; he looked “sad as one of those victims of old times who were led forth to sacrifice, garlanded with flowers.” “I realized that from now on all relations between myself and France are at an end” —such was the farewell message of Marie Louise—"but I shall never forget my adopted land. Tell the emperor I wish him well. I hope he will understand the unfortunate position in which I am placed. I will never countenance a divorce, but I ask him to consent to a separation.” The Battle of Waterloo on June 18 and the emperor’s exile to St. Helena, the Ultima Thule of despair, served as an acid test of # the sincerity of her feelings. Marie Louise was at Baden when she heard the news that the emperor was taken prisoner. The mistress of the house where she was staying, Marquise Scarampy, danced with joy, while the servants, who had an almost fantacial devotion for Napoleon, were prostrated with grief. The marquise sent a note to Marie Louise—whose door was always closed to visitors till 11—telling her the news. “Thank you—but I knew about it already. I was thinking of a ride to Merkenstein. Do you think the weather’s fine enough to risk it?”
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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —
WASHINGTON, March 19.—The inner Administration council has become much alarmed over the fate of the NIRA in Congress. Before the Senate Finance Committee began its hearings, Administration leaders were confident that by making some minor concessions renewal of the act would be relatively easy. “Assistant President” Richberg, particularly, was convinced this was all that had to be done.
After witnessing the outbursts of resentment and hostility that broke about his head in the committee and on the Senate floor, however. Democratic floor leaders rushed to the White House with warning that a real battle was on their hands. Mr. Roosevelt was told that adoption of any NRA legislation was doubtful. This, of course, would mean death to the Blue Eagle. Failure to renew its life by June 16 automatically ends its existence. So to stem the rising tide of senatorial opposition, Senator Pat Harrison secretly proposed to the progressive bloc that they draw up a compromise bill. “You strip the NRA of what you don’t want,” he said, “I am pretty sure we can get together.” “What about an anti-monopoly provision?” was demanded. “Get together with Richberg.” airily replied Pat. “You can work that out with him.” “We will work out nothing with Richberg,” was the sharp rejoinder. “We don’t care to have anything to do with him on this issue or any other.” The progressives are now waiting the Administration's next move. a a a THE official reporters of the Senate, who transcribe the debate for the Congressional Record, have a shorthand speed of 250 words a minute. Average “take” is 180 words a minute. Rhetorical Senator Ham Lewis of Illinois is most difficult to follow. He speaks rapidly, with involved phrases. Othe:-s whose speech speed is over TOO words a minute are Homer Bone of Washington. Bennett Clark of Missouri, Alvin Barkley of Kentucky and Huey Long of Louisiana. Long is a difficult subject not only because of speed, but because of unusual hill-billy phrases he throws in, such as "There's something dead up the creek.” Two of the biggest men in the Senate are the most soft-spoken— David Walsh of Massachusetts and Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota. Reporters are obliged to leave the front desk and sit close to them in order to hear. Senators William H. King of Utah and Hiram Johnson of California are conspicuous for use of polysyllables. Mr. Johnson once delivered himself of a recordbreaker: “Mr. President, during the last year, bellowed from the hustings,
Adam Albert de Neipperg was, we may take it, sure to be included in the party. “What do you think about it. General? What's your idea, General?” — such words were constantly on her lips, so the Baronne du Montet tells us. And such was the vanity of this dandy with the bandaged forehead, a one-eyed Don Juan who in earlier days had run away with a married woman, Therese Pois, at Mantua, that he was now aspiring to the conquest of Marie Louise. “Within six months I shall be her lover, and very soon her husband . . . Marie Louise is charming, pretty as a rose.” In the entourage of the ex-Em-press, Napoleon’s name was taboo. The French staff had been disbanded, and replaced by German servants. The past was dead, its memory buried in oblivion. In the heart of Marie Louise we can detect no trace of that generous compassion which is a woman's appanage, and might well have been accorded to one of the greatest griefs, the most pitiable disasters, the world has ever known. No, not a trace of it. In the prison-house of Saint Helena, to the anguish that captivity must have meant for one who in his time was master of the world, was to be added now the cruelest of griefs that can befall a husband and a father; loneliness of heart. I THE END) (Copyright, 1935, in France by Bibliotheque Nationale: in all other countries by United Feature Syndicate. Reproduction eitheir in whole or in part prohibited. All rights reserved.)
tintinnabulated over the radio, ululated from a servile press, there has come to us the objurgation of a recalcitrant minority.” u a a THE President's vigorously worded message in behalf of the utility holding corporation bill came at a psychological moment. The measure was in a bad way in the House Interstate Commerce Committee where it is under consideration. A combination of Old Guard Republicans and Democrats secretely were preparing to emasculate the bill—if not actually shelve it. Some of the group even were threatening to modify existing utility legislation. Indiana's Tory Democratic Samuel B. Pettengiil violently assailed provisions of the 15-year-old Federal Power Act, while New Jersey’s Old Guard Republican Charles A. Wolverton demanded curtailment of the TVA. The situation had come to such a pass that Chairman Sam Rayburn, sponsor of the bill, was fighting practically lone-handed in its defense. Into this lineup the President’s message burst like a bombshell. Foes of the bill immediately were put on the defensive while its advocates took advantage of the break to jam through the Senate a resolution offered by Senator George Norris. It dirtied the Federal Trade Commission l- investigate the hostile propaganda drive. a a a MR. ROOSEVELT is not the only one facing national defections. Liberty League directors are fretting under the command of Jouett Shouse, wondering if they could not spend $36,000 a year—his salary—to better advantage. ... In an office of the Public Health Service one day last week, a red pin was stuck into a chart at a point higher than any other red pins, or blue pins, or green pins. The chart showeu the range of scarlet fever cases in the United States. The red pin inditated there were nearly 8000 cases, a high not only for this year but for blue-pin 1934 and green-pin 1933. . . . During a recent debate on the Senate floor, Joseph W. Bailey of North Carolina passed his time privately reading “Every Man a King,” autobiography of Huey Lon? (Copyright. 1935. bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.l
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l Cover the World WMPHIUP SIMMS WASHINGTON. March 19.—World chancelleries today are asking if Britain has not, once again, begun to move too late to head off another European war. In 1914. it is now widely conceded, Britain might have averted the World War by a timely warning to Germany. Adolf Hitler’s worldrocking decision to scrap the Treaty of Versailles and arm Germany to the limit may have shocked the world, but it was known in London and Paris
as long ago as last May. Paris had learned of it several months earlier, but had been unable to convince London. She even compiled a secret dossier showing the extent of German armaments to date and the Reich's plans for the future. London, this writer was informed on high British authority in London last May. asked its own agents in Germany to chock up on the French figures. This th# British agents did, fully confirming the dossier. When the report reached Downing Street, it is said, little attention was paid it. It was handed casually to cabinet members, noted
marginally to the effect that “this may interest you.” The calm did not last long. A second report, arrived from a different set of British agents, and it created consternation. This report, three separate British authorities told the writer, contained information so startling regarding the state and nature of German preparedness that the cabinet did not dare make it public. To do so, it was stated, would so alarm public opinion that an irresistible clamor for new British defenses would arise, thus adding danger to an otherwise highly explosive European situation. The information was to the effect that Germany already had a great army and air fleet in the making, and was nearly strong enough chemically (poison gas, high explosives, incendiary material, etc.), to hold her own against any other power. While all this armament was supposed to be secret, it would be expanded as fast as Germany ingenuity could do so. Then, when because of sheer magnitude it could no longer be concealed, Herr Hitler would simply defy the world. tt tt tt Shnwdou n Coming Quickly THE official organ of the German general staff—the "Militar-Wochenblatt”—meantime gave a coldly hair-raising idea of what “the next war” would be like. In effect the plan would be to concentrate every ounce of force at the nation's command on the first moment of hostilities. “Success,” it declared, “must be immediate and complete. The effect of surprise must be so crushing that the adversary will find it materially impossible to organize his defense.” Don’t give the enemy a chance pven to mobilize, was the key to the plan. Bomb, burn and gas mobilization points, industrial centers, bridges and air fields in the first hours of the war. The British government let the country know by degrees. It asked for increased national defense funds, particularly for aviation. It intimated why. The chalk cliffs of Dover, Stanley Baldwin, lord president of the council, boldly declared, are no longer Britain's frontier, but I the banks of the Rhine. The next two or three flips of the cards from the European deck may decide the game for or Mars. Sir John Simon will be sitting in at Berlin when the cards fall. He and Herr Hitler will do most of the dealing. The Simon and Anthony Eden missions, therefore, may be epochal. Unless Sir John can persuade Germany to join Britain, France, Italy and the Soviet Union in a general peace guarantee, many see only one alternative left short of war. And that is to encircle Germany so tightly she will know she can not win. tt tt tt It Alt Hinges on Britain BRITAIN hesitates to take the latter course. And Germany knows it. Attempt after attempt has been, and is being made, to split Britain off. Britain has a deadly fear of aerial attack, and Germany has already offered to sign an “aerial Locarno” guaranteeing her against that. With Britain neutral, Germany could turn her attention eastward. She refuses to sign the “Eastern Locarno” which the late Louis Barthou proposed and the British blessed, safeguarding the status quo of that region. German Nazis are moving heaven and earth to win Austria over to union with the Reich. The next step, it is feared, would be Hungary, then Rumania. The Ukraine, next to Rumania and claimed to be Germanic at least in part, is said to be one of the Nazis’ Eastern European objectives. The Ukraine is Russian. A neutral Britain might give Germany her chance at a sensational world comeback—particularly if Japan, traditional enemy of the Soviet Union, can be persuaded by German diplomacy to time an attack in the Far East with a German blow in the V/est. Now as in 1914, theiefore. peace or war seems to hang in large part upon British diplomacy. (Copyright. 1935, by United Feature Syndicate Inc.) Westbrook Pegler, Times columnist, today started a two weeks’ vacation. There will be no Peglcr for that period.
Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ
EDDIE CANTOR'S jokes, Bing Crosby's croon, Paul Whiteman'., jazz, or, in fact, any other radio broadcast program, may soon be guiding airplanes to safe landings when clouds and fog obscure the ground. This is the claim made for the Kruesi radio compass by its manufacturers, the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corp, Woodside, N. Y. The Kruesi radio compass, the company states, has been adopted as standard equipment by the U. S. Army Air Corps. It is not in use at the present time on any of the airlines. Researches in the use of this compass have been conducted during the past year by the Bureau of Air Commerce. The compass differs from the radio direction finders in which ground stations tune in the plane’s transmitter, determine its bearings and then radio its position to it. The compass also differs from the radio range beacon systems in u’hich the pilot charts his course ipon the strength of signals heard in his earphones. e a a THE Kruesi radio compass is named for its inventor. Geoffrey G. Kruesi, Dayton. O. The latest military model, designated as the U. S. Army E-4 radio compass is the one which has been adapted to civilian use by the Fairchild company. With it, the pilot can tune in on any beacon, weather, or commercial broadcasting station. He first tunes in a federal airways station or commercial broadcasting station located at his destination or in the general direction of his location. He does this in the usual fashion with the aid of a tuning dial and earphones. hub THE compass can also be used as a position finder. If the plane is equipped with a fixed loop aerial, the pilot tunes in a station and changes his course until the dial reads at zero. He then takes a bearing from the magnetic compass or the directional giro. He repeats this process on another station. The two cross bearings are then plotted on a map and the point of their intersection indicates the position of the airplane. If the plane is equipped *ith a rotatable loop, the bearings are taken by rotating the loop instead of changing the course of the plane. The compass consists of four units, the pass-receiver, the remote control box. the dynamometer type bearing indicator, and the circular loop antenna, either fixed or rotatable*
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