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The Way I See It BMIISIonH (Batting for Heywood Broun) /CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—1 t wont be Senator Borah. The most insistent question I hear is: “Who will the Republicans put up?" Most of the answers are pure chafT, but ou' here in the habitat of the Silas Strawns and such, where the high pressure antiRoosevelt medicine is being brewed, it is not chafT. “Borah is for soft money, Bolsheviks and Townsend,’ is the phrase with which his candidacy is killed. These pundits say that, they will have available I

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the largest war chest in political history—“as much as can be used ” This is of vital importance to the extent that because of it they will nominate the can-didate-just as they nominated Harding. That is almost a fore- j gone conclusion. Everybody of ! importance who has talked with j me—and that includes almost I everybody of importance in this j situation—simply takes that for granted. In such a certainty, figures j conspicuous this far in advance 1 mean nothing. The strategy is *

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that of a battle royal—let them kill each other off and see who's left. Landon is laughed at in these circles. He is a ! Dry of the hardshell variety—an uninspired reactionary seeking the mantle of the economical “Cal- i vidge without even the dry wit of the great pennypincher Even with all Mr. Hearst's genius for popular publicity at this time, you can't sell to the public Uriah Deep festooned in dry crepe. n a a Such Words! Why, Gen. Johnson!! cpHE record of Vandenberg is too wishy-washy. A What between flirting with the Communism of sly Nye and dogging the Liberalism of Jim Couzens, j with one foot always on this base with the reaction- I anes, he is swimming in an amphibian medium where nothing but a walrus or a toad could survive. | I think Knox is a great guy but he doesn't mean anything so what? The icoplc will not go back to naked Hooverism. As this column has observed before, the Republicans have neither a man nor a plan. Unless they present a nlatform about like the 1932 Democratic platform, and put up a man in whom the people believe, they have as much chance of beating Roosevelt as a one-legged man at a pants-kicking contest. (Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

'T''HE large intestines do not add much in the way of secretions. They do add some mucus to the mixture, which aids its passage. Water, however, may be absorbed from the large intestine into the body. It must be remembered that the body absolutely demands water, to carry on the process of digestion and absorption. These processes of digestion are of utmost importance for health. If they do not go on successfully, the result is stomach and intestinal disturbances, inadequate nutrition of the body, loss of weight, and general ill health. The manner of development of these disorders will be discussed in later articles. When carbohydrates are absorbed, they pass into the blood as simple sugars. The starches are broken down into simple sugars. From the intestines these materials pass into the liver. There they are stored up as a special sugar called glycogen, used up by the body in muscular action. tt tt tt HPHE amount of sugar in the blood therefore, is usually constant. When a large amount of sugar is taken—that is to say, more than can be promptly stored in the liver —the amount, of sugar in the blood is increased. The excess will then pour into the excretions of the body. Sugars which are not digested and which do not get into the blood may be fermented in the bile and change to acids. The fats are absorbed with the aid of the bile, sometimes in the form of bile salts. These do not pass with the blood to the liver, but go by the way of the lymphatics directly from the small intestine. Then the material may be taken up by the blood and carried to the cells of the body. The pioteins are split up or obsorbed in the intestinal walls and then pass through the liver. Therefore they go into the circulation, to be used in building up the proteins of the tissues.

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

SLOWLY the history of America is being pushed into the dim centuries of the past. Bit by bit. evidence is being accumulated which points to the inhabitation of America centuries before the coirung of the Indians whom the first white settlers met. The latest discovery is that of David L. Bushnell Jr. of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. He has found traces of an ancient race in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia centuries older than the Indians whom the first white settlers contacted. Mr. Bushnell has discovered crude stone clay artifacts. These may turn out to be contemporaneous with the so-called Folsom points, the chipped stones which are believed to be the relicts of the oldest inhabitants of the nation. So-called Folsom man is believed to have been the earliest inhabinant of the continent. tt tt tt AMONG the more interesting of Mr. Bushnell's finds Is a shaped stone of yellow' jasper about two inches long. It may have been a spear or arrow point, or perhaps a knife bladg. Nothing like it is known to have been used by the historic Indians. Similar specimens, however, have been found in northwestern Louisiana, where Folsom points have also been found. Mr. Bushnell calls this jasper blade a "pentagonal point .' Ii is possible that it may become a key object in *he study of the ancient Indian growing to a significance equaling that of the Folsom point.

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By Scifnc* Service WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.—The official altitude rigure o f 72.395 feet <13.7 miles* for the highest up of the National Geographic Society-United States Army stratosphere flight of Nov. 11. just determined by National Bureau of Vibration o', the sealed meteorograph, is a record that will probably stand for some time. It is higher by not quite a mile than the unofficial figures for the ill-fated Soviet of 1934 that crashed in landing with fatal result to its crew of three. It is more than 2 miles <11.158 feet) higher than the official record set in 1933 by the SettleFordnev American flight, the official mark of which was 61.235 feet. The routine flights of instrument-earning balloons used in weather observations do not often reach higher than the new record for man-carrying straio-bal!oons just announced. Sounding balloons, or smail balloons that do not cam anvthing but themselves aloft, often go higher'than the new worlds record. The American record for these sounding balloons dates from 1913 and is 20 miles. The highest claimed is 22 miles in Germany, but there is doubt about these records, as there are theoretical reasons for doubting whether balloons can rise much beyond about 19 miles. Rockets seem to be the best bet for the future in attempts to probe farther out in space.

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(hat date, already covered" with ' i oceanic flying boat must be ver lichen and with moss, stands for a Hr " 1920 he piloted one of a squadron satile—is a flier. Mr. Wright, 3 flying field at Key West, Fla., and 3 , of flying boats which flew from years old and a na tive of Miam: a six-passenger land plane of i HIMPsF" San Diego to San Francisco—an holds government licenses in botl three and a half tons, powered by V achievement for aircraft and engine mechanic which was the "airliner" of her ' HiSht from San Diego to Seattle, graduate of Tulane, he joinei day, the triumph of Anthony : m&l. • JgW ‘'Wk i served as test pilot and instructor, Pan-American in 1930 as ame Fokker, designer. Ipl|S%y: j wenfc * rom duty at Hawaii to the chanic and rose rapidly. In ad At the controls of this “F-7,” <■ Idaho as aircraft officer. dition to long service on regula his pleasantly rugged face calm t|a 1° 1928, a few months before he routes, be was aboard the plan as he awaited the end of the _ *lllr tbL wl left lb e Navy to join Pan-Ameri- which pushed the South America! ceremonial bustle, was Capt. Mu- u *&&& can. he made an unofficial flight route from Trinidad to Maraciabo sick, assigned to pilot the initial r HF -v record in an endurance flight with made the initial flight from Miam by an American com- ‘^ flying He has served j junior flight office ishes A little more than an hour, Br % ' ./ M * rehef^l^nes 3 between' o the cific bri dge. He was born in 190! her and ''"'f ? m . inican republic and Puerto Rico. and was graduated frotn the Nava time between the United States *-■ ■ . Fre d J. Noonan, the Pan-Amer- ican’s exacting sense of the phrase and Cuba and she has begun for lean Clipper s naugation officer, f oi - h e h as 535 hours of solo flvini Pan-American Airways an in- more than 20 years on the behind him and was for two year credibly swift march of transpor- : \ surface of salt water before grad- a member of a flight, snuariron on

the first regular trans-Pariflc air mail service has begun. Behind that fact is a dramatic storv of American enterprise. This is the tenth of a series of articles on the preparations for the event. BY SUTHERLAND DENLINGER Times Special Writer JIFE to Edwin C. Musick has been just one milestone after another, and if these figurative markers seem in his case to succeed one another with dizzying rapidity—well, that is the penalty or the reward of association with a fast-moving industry like aviation. The milestones are many. It would be hard to hazard which of them might pop into Capt. Musick’s mind as he stands on the flying bridge of the twenty-five and a half

ton China Clipper, outbound from San Francisco for Honolulu and Manila. The probabilities are, none. Men like Capt. Musick are usually too preoccupied with the job in hand. It would be most appropriate, however, if Musick were to recall the early morning of Oct. 19, 1927, just a little more than eight years ago. The milestone bearing that date, already covered w'ith lichen and with moss, stands for a flying field at Key West, Fla., and a six-passenger land plane of three and a half tons, powered by three 200-horsepower motors, which was the “airliner" of her day, the triumph of Anthony Fokker, designer. At the controls of this “F-7,” his pleasantly rugged face calm as he awaited the end of the ceremonial bustle, was Capt. Musick, assigned to pilot the initial plane on the first over-water international air service to be launched by an American company. The route, Key West to Havana. Cuba, across 90 miles of open sea. The whirlwinds roar, the chocks come out from before the wheals, the “F-7” runs, lifts, circles, straightens out on her course, vanishes. A little more than an hour, and she is down again in the Cuban capital with her mails and her official first-flight passengers. She has cut greatly the travel time between the United States and Cuba and she has begun for Pan-American Airways an incredibly swift march of transportation progress which eight years later will have linked the Caribbean Island and Central and South America to this country by 32.500 mi'es of scheduled routes—bridged the Pacific Ocean. nan CHIEF pilot of Pan American Airways, in charge of all trans-oceanic flying personnel during the series of exploratory flights which preceded inauguration of the 9000-mile route to Asia. Capt. Musick has been flying 22 years, of which four and a half were actually spent in the air. Substitute statistics for milestones and the man’s background becomes amazing. One of the small group of American pilots who have more than 10,000 flying hours to their credit, he his piloted aircraft more than a million miles, the equivalent of 40 round-world cruises. No passenger in any plane flown by him has been injured. He is prouder of his perfect score for safe operation than of the fact that he holds more world records in his own name than any other aviator. Nevertheless, he does hold three records, although he has never participated in a “stunt” flight. Few veteran skippers assigned to the command of a shiny new ocean liner have behind them a

Keeping the Government on Time Takes Two Men s Time, Ernie Finds; and a White House Clock Out of Fix Takes Precedent Over All Else

BY ERNIE PYLE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.—1 t takes two men to keep all the clocks in government service running, and they can hardly keep up. These two men repair an average cf seven clocks a day. They have fixed 1737 so far this year. Nine out of ten don't need a thing but cleaning and oilng. There’s no way of telling just how’ many clocks the government has here in Washington, unless you took a month off and went around counting them, but a good rough guess would be 10.000. About half of them now' are electric. These don't take much work. It's the orinary mechanical clock that gets out of fix oftenest. They are repaired in a little shop in the basement of the new Post Office Building. The clock shop is always full.

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Fdwin C. Musick, in Honolulu on his test flight.

longer apprenticeship in steam than Musick's in the air. Few of them, for that matter, have cleared the customs as often in a lifetime as has Capt. Musick in the last seven years. During that period, on scheduled trips to and from the 33 countries served by Pan-American, he has passed through American custom house offices more than 2000 times. nan HE w r as born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1934, learned to fly in 1913. Aviation was less than 10 years o .and when a Los Angeles commercial flying school taught him how to take the primitive crates of those days off the ground, and as one of the “early birds” he barnstormed about, doing exhibition and commercial flying, until the war. In 1917 he became a civilian instructor wdth the United States Air Corps, training pilots at San Diego. Wichita Falls and Miami. The war over he alternated between Florida and New York. Already he had flown practically every type of land aircraft known to America, he now began experimenting w’ith the early type flying boats. It w T as not long after he joined

There are grandfather clocks, and clocks w'ith wooden gears, and ivory gears, and clocks that tell the day of month and where the moon is, and more plain ordinary alarm clocks than you'd ever imagine the government ow'ning. u st o TJ' VERY once in a while some government official sends in a $1.50 alarm clock, and it costs $2 to fix it, and then he hits the roof. But the clock shep can’t help it. All they do is fix 'em. There is no central buying of clocks for the w’hole government. Each department, even each small division, buys its own clocks (from the lowest bidder), so the result is one cf the greatest conglomeration of timepieces you ever saw. The clock shop is always catching the devil from somebody. An official will miss a train because his clock w : as three minutes slow,

of the American Bridge League at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, the week of Dec. 2. Louis J. Haddad, league president, and one of the most colorful players cf the country, was not unmindful of the millions of home or amateur players throughout the United States when he provided a special president's cup game for them, with full master's qualifications. The event for this prize to be played Saturday afternoon and evening, Dec. 7. Mr. Haddad brings out a verygood point for the amateur, which is also a good lesson for some experts. The begmner has been taught, when establishing a suit, to try to establish the one with the most cards in it. For example, in today's hand there are four spades in each hand and only seven hearts in the combined hands; therefore, most beginners would try’ to establish the spade suit. Mr. Haddad, however, says: "First count your tricks. You have three clubs, two diamonds, and two spades, making a total of seven sure tricks. But you need two more to fulfill your contract. "Let this be your rule—establish the suit first that will give you

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Pan-American in 1927 that the airW'ays company, pushing out over the Caribbean, began to standardize on seaplanes. Musick grew in technical knowledge and flight experience as the line grew in size. By 1930 he had become chief pilot of the Caribbean division, covering the West Indies and extending south to Panama and Brazil. Capt. Musick pioneered many of these South American air lines, served as co-pilot with Col. Lindbergh, Pan-American’s technical adviser, on several other exploratory trips. During his first experimental flights in the Pan-American Clipper, he had with him as first officer R. O. D. Sullivan, also scheduled for a command w'hen the trans-oceanic serivee settled down to routine. nan MR. SULLIVAN is another Missourian. He was burn in Hannibal- March 25, 1893; began life as an engineer and machinist; turned, with the war, to aviation. In 1918 he joined the Naval Air School at San Diego. Transferred to Pensacola, he w-as returned to San Diego after graduation as a seaplane pilot and in

and then he throws it into the clock shop people good and strong for not knowing his clock was w'rong. Or some fellow w'ill call up and say the clock in his office is stopped, and it has to be fixed right aw'ay. He doesn't know that you can’t fix a clock right away. Ybu can fix it, but you can't tell w'hether it’s right or not unless it's regulated five or six days. The clock owners never understand this. Once a w r eek, the clock men have to wind all the clocks in the Civil Service Commission. In other departments, a watchman does it. tt tt tt WHEN the White House calls, the clock people jump. A White House clock out of fix takes precedent over everything else. There was a little gold one from the White House, hanging over

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1920 he piloted one of a squadron of flying boats which flew from San Diego to San Francisco—an achievement for that period. He took part in the 1924 mass flight from San Diego to Seattle, served as test pilot and instructor, went from duty at Hawaii to the U. S. S. Idaho as aircraft officer. In 1928, a few months before he left the Navy to join Pan-Ameri-can, he made an unofficial flight record in an endurance flight with a tri-motored Zenith Albatross. Today he has piled up 7600 hours’ flying time. He has served as senior pilot on the Central American route, on the run from Cristobal to Ecuador, and in the 600-mile over-water trans-Carib-bean service. During the 1930 Santo Domingo hurricane, which took more than 1000 lives, he flew relief planes between the Dominican republic and Puerto Rico. Like Capt. Musick, he is married anti has a home in Florida. Fred J. Noonan, the Pan-Amer-ican Clipper's navigation officer, spent more than 20 years on the surface of salt water before graduating to the air. In 1908, when 15, Noonan left his home in Chicago to %o to sea. In 1910 he was in the Crompton, largest square-rigger of that day under the Union Jack, when she was weatherbound 152 days on a voyage from Washington state to Ireland. nun DURING the war he served aboard a munitions carrier, later in the Royal Navy. He has been torpedoed, assisted in rescues at sea, has rounded the Horn seven times, three times on windjammers. Somehow he found time for a military academy and the London Nautical College; time to acquire a first-class Mississippi River pilot's license and to become a transport pilot. Mr. Noonan, after serving as instructor in aerial navigation with various air transport organizations, entered the Pan-American service in 1930. He became airport manager at Port-au-Prince, then traveling airport inspector, finally—after making detailed surveys of Caribbean narbors,, establishing by celestial observation the correct geographical positions for direction-finding compasses in that area—he was made navigation instructor for the Caribbean division.

the workman’s bench, the day I was there. When Coolidge became President, he had the striker taken off of every clock in the White House. The reDairmen don't know why. Just didn't like the noise, they figure. But now, every time a White House clock comes in for repair, they put the striker back on. The government’s chief clock fixer is named William J. Pruneau. His father was a clock reCOMRADESHIP WEEK FOR YOUNG FOLK ARRANGED Brightwood Church League to Sponsor Meetings. The Epworth League. Brightwood M. E. Church, is to sponsor an Interdenominational Young People's Comradeship Week beginning tomorrow. Meetings are to be held at 7:30 each night. Weeks speakers inlude: Sunday, Miss Gertrude ; Brown. Brightwood Self-Help Unit. | and Dr. Rebecca Parrish, retired missionary to the Philippines: Monday, Anthony Lehner, co-operative I secretary, Indiana Farm Bureau; j Tuesday, F. E. DeFrantz. executive secretary, Colored Y. M. C. A; ' Wednesday, Mayor Kern and Dr. j Ernest M. Evans, executive secre- : tary. Church Federation; Thursday, E. J. Unruh, secretary, Indiana Council International Relations; Friday, Harry White, general secretary, Y. M. C. A. Saturday's meeting is to be a parry and get-together meeting. A movie, “Co-operation in Europe,” is to be shown. Franklin Taylor. Brightwood choir director, is to be in charge of special music. CHURCH GROUP TO MEET Missionary Society Auxiliary to Hold Session Tuesday, The Loretah Farlee Auxiliary to i the Woman's Heme Missionary SoI ciety of the Woodside M. E. Church is to meet Tuesday in the home of Mrs. Ruth Schnarr, 3004 Meredithav. Mrs. Desdemona Harryman, auxiliary president, will ' have charge of the program. Miss Veva Swan will be assistant hostess. i

Victor A. Wright is an engineering officer, but he, too —-in line with Col. Lindbergh’s dictum'that the officer personnel of a transoceanic flying boat must be versatile—is a flier. Mr. Wright. 32 years old and a native of Miami, holds government licenses in both aircraft and engine mechanics and is also a transport pilot. A graduate of Tulane, he joined Pan-American in 1930 as a mechanic and rose rapidly. In addition to long service on regular routes, be was aboard the plane which pushed the South American route from Trinidad to Maraciabo; made the initial flight from Miami to Para. nan Tl/TUSICK'S junior flight officer was Harry R. Canaday, and Canaday, one of Pan-American’s “apprentice pilots,” is a fair sample of the timber with which the line intends to reinforce its Pacific bridge. He was born in 1909 and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1930. He is an “apprentice pilot” only in Pan-Amer-ican's exacting sense of the phrase, for he has 635 hours of solo flying behind him and was for two years a member of a flight squadron operating from the airplane carrier Saratoga. He is also a licensed airplane and engine mechanic and a licensed radio operator. The Clipper’s radio officer is W. Turner Jarboe. who came out of Baltimore Polytechnical Institute to go to sea 10 years ago. Before he joined Pan-American in 1930 he had made two voyages around the world, scores of trips to the Orient, the Mediterranean, South Africa and Europe. Since 1930 Mr. Jarboe has accumulated 500 flying hours, and during Col. Lindbergh's survey flights over the Atlantic two years ago he was chief radio operator aboard the steamer Jelling, the Pan-Ameri-can base ship which served the expedition in the vicinity of Newfoundland, Greenland and Iceland. With such men at their posts behind the wide windows of the China Clipper's flying bridge, the trans-Pacific airline can challenge the crack steamship services to produce a more confidence-inspir-ing group of officers. And PanAmerican has five such crews, Musick-trained and organized, ready to take over regular tours of duty aboard the sister ships of the great Clipper. Monday—All aboard for Honolulu.

pairman up in Vermont, and he learned the business from him before the war. Pruneau was all shot up in the war, spent two years in hospitals, then went to a veterans’ rehabilitation school. He has been fixing clocks for the government for seven years now'. Pruneau’s father is 93. and doesn’t fix clocks any more. He'd like to come down from Vermont to see his son, but he’s too old now. Pruneau’s helper is French C. Smith, also a w'ar veteran. Pruneau works in the shop, and Smith cutside, winding clocks and fixing those that can't be brought in. When one is sick, the other has to do both men’s work. The electric clocks don’t cause much trouble—unless the power goes off. If it's off more than two hours, they have to go around and reset every single clock. But if it’s off less than tw'o hours, they just set the master clock in a building, and the others automatically pick up the loss in time. Bet you didn't know that. COAST BROKER SLAIN; WIFE ADMITS SHOOTING San Francisco Fraternal Leader Found in Apartment. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 30 —John H. Dumbrell, 59. San Francisco fraternal leader, banker and broker, was shot to death in his Broderick-st apartment early today. Police arrested his wife Amy, 50. and said she had confessed the slaying. Mrs. Dumbrell, declaring "It was inevitable that I should do this thing,” denied she confessed the shooting to shield son. John H. Dumbrell Jr., 19, a college student. FORMS GREEK CABINET Former Naval Minister's Choice Approved by King. By United Press ATHENS, Nov. 30.—Constantine Demerdjis, former naval minister, formed a cabinet today to succeed the government of Gen. George Kondylis. King George II approved the list of cabinet ministers submitted by the premier-designate.

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Fair Enough ✓"GIBRALTAR. Nov. 30—The attitude of the British on the great fortress of Gibraltar is puzzling. It's the keyhole of the Eastern Hemisphere, and the British have spent millions of pounds on the garrison's harbor works and fortifications. From this window I can see not only the Hood and the Renown, two of the mightiest warships man ever has built, but several submarines, destrovers and auxiliaries, and the cruiser Sydney of the rather nominal and complementary Australian fleet. T'Vr Cvr) nt . ♦V, ~ 1 . ___l

The Sydney is the new boat which left England two weeks ago, ostensibly on her way home. She showed up this afternoon inside the breakwater. She is painted a lighter shade than the conventional dark gray of the peacetime dress of the British fleet, and when she tied up alongside the concrete harbor structure she reminded me of a picture which I had seen a week ago in the London Sphere. The lines under the picture said that the Sydney was bound for Australia, but there was something distinctive about her

profi'e. so when this light gray warship appeared I got out the magazine and compared the picture with the boat across the harbor. There's no doubt about it. This is the Sydney which ought to be at the other side of the world, and this is Gibraltar where she tied up tonight. nun They're So Casual About Their Xary , "O EMEMBERING old Admiral “Blinker'' Hall, of the British Naval Intelligence in London House, the dick of the British Admiralty during the war to end war, I am surprised to find the British so ~asual and nonchalant about their navy. From the little balcony of my room in the Rock Hotel I have shot moving pictures with my amateur household camera of the Hood and the Renown firing at an aerial target towed by a seaplane and missing the target by a possible quarter of a mile, and of the Sydney supposed to be half-way home. I have made movies of British submarines and cruisers and of a group of warships holding signal practice in the Mediterranean several miles away. Nobodv seemed to care. I carried the camera openly, aimed it almost ostentatiously at some of their most valuable war boats, and nobody said it was against the law. Old "Blinker” Hall, who was a friend of Franklin Roosevelt in the war days when he was Assistant Secretary of the United States Navy, would have had a person torn shred from shred with red hot tongs for much less than that. He didn’t even admit there was a British navy. He wouldn’t tell you the richt time within 10 years off a ton of free calendars. Old “Blinker” Hall was inclined to keep his own counsel, and he didn't much hold with the idea of people discussing the fleet, much less making movies of them for innocent home consumption. nan Am / Being Deceived? DUT I wonder if I am being deceived at this moment. Because surely by now the Italians, Germans and Japanese—three natural enemies who are sighting down their barrels at our old pals the British—have plenty of photographs, movies and stills of the Hood, the Renown, the Sydney and the day labor boats of the British navy which lie inside the breakwater at Gibraltar. If I could take fuzzy amateur movies, surely the Italians down at the office of the Italian line or hauling in herrings on fishing boats outside could have made expert scientific reels. So is it possible, do you suppose, that they were just purring on what we used to call in the prize fight business the old song and dance when they were missing the target? And do you reckon that the Sydney was sent in here at great expense not to puzzle the amateur and high amateur photographer, but to keep the enemy guessing? I use the term “enemy” in the hypothetical sense, of course. And one more thing. When I went down this evening to ship my films back to New York, not wishing to carry them into Italy and Germany, the man at the postoffice window made a courteous remark. He accepted the films and said they would go right along in the usual way. And then he said. “I expect you will be alone or almost alone on the Rex for Naples tomorrow.” Well, I hadn't said anything about going out on the big Italian boat for Naples tomorrow', and I had been minding my own business and leading a quiet social life in Gibraltar. Still this man called the turn. I am w'ondering tonight whether he is going to expose those innocent films of mine to the light and ruin thm before they can be developed. Clever, those British. Even if they're dumb you can’t be certain they aren't being clever.

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TI7HAT we would get, he says, is a far more fllex- ’ * ible arithmetic. We could figure such things as feet and inches, dozens, the 12 months of the year, and so on, decimally. Our numerical system would have many more whole numbers, and ordinary housekeeping arithmetic would be much simpler. Figuring in general would be easier, with less debris in the way of fractions. Mr. Andrews goes on to add that we should beware of adopting the metric system of weights and measures. That, he says, would rivet on us irrevocably the business of counting by tens; and we don't want to do that because counting by twelves is every so much simpler. It's an interesting idea and an interesting book. (By Bruce Catton.)

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Phyllis Bentley's first novel, "Environment,” published in England in 1922. will be issued here early in January by Hillman-Curl, Inc. Miss Bentley is the author of "Inheritance'- and "A Modem Tragedy.” Her regular publisher. Macmillan, also have anew book of hers called "Freedom, Farewell!” It is a historical novel based on the fall of the Roman republic, a situation which Miss Bentley feels is in many ways analogous to the present time. a a a Damon Runyon, whose bock Money From Home” is now out, also has a play on Broadway —"A Slight Case of Murder.” which he wrote in collaboration with Howard Lindsay. Few people remember that Damon Runyon wrote fiction and verse 20 years ago. There wasn't much money in it so he shopped. Then about three years ago, encouraged by the late Ray Long, he took it up again and all of a sudden his short stories in Cosmopolitan and Colliers caught on. Several of them were made into movies, notably "Little Miss Marker." which brought Shirley Temple into fame. a a b Frederick Hazlitt Brennan is in New York this week to discuss the Broadway production of his new play, “Pike County Landing.” Thomas Mitchell will direct it.

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