Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1936 — Page 10

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The Indianapolis Times (* SCRIrrS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER) ROT W. HOWARD President L TIDWELL DEN NT . Edlfor EAKL D. BAKER Bn*ln* Man seel* H Member of United Preen, Rcrlpp** Howard Newspaper Alliance. Newa* paper Enterprise Aasociaiioo. Newspaper Information Serrice and Audit Bureau of Circulations. Owned and published dalle <except Sunday) by The Indianapolis Times Publishing Cos.. 214-280 W. Maryland-st. Indianapolis, Ind. Price in Marlon County. 3 cents a copy: delirered by carrier. 12 cents a week. Mail subscription rates In Indiana. 13 • year: out- — a.’de of Indiana, 65 cents a month. fcf* hioht and the T'kZrol'nwX ™on. Riley 5551 MONDAY. JANUARY 20. 1936 FIDDLING WHILE PEACE BURNS /'"'■ONGRESS started out to survey anew highway of neutrality by which the United States might detour around the next world war. But now we find members of the surveying expedition and others in Congress standing in the middle of the road which led to the last disaster, furiously debating matters which have no relation to the Job at hand. What difference does it make to the peace and securily of this generation whether William Jennings Bryan betrayed Champ Clark in the Democratic convention at Baltimore in 1912? What difference does It make whpther Woodrow Wilson knew about the secret treaties of the Allies before he went to the peace conference or didn’t learn about them until he arrived at Versailles? The only important thing to know about the Allies’ conspiracy is that President Wilson had no knowledge of it before we entered that "war to save the world for democracy.’’ And even Mr. Wilson’s critics concede that. After we had entered was too late. Nor does it matter in the least who is to blame for this futile and extraneous debate. It was foolish of Senator Nve to inject personalities into the inquiry. But it is just as foolhardy and unpardonable for Senators Glass and Connally and others of the Wilsonian Old Guard to maintain the shrill emo’tional pitch, for in doing so they thereby distract attention from the real issues. What does it matter how much Senator Nve collected in Chautauqua fees or who called whom a liar? Woodrow Wilson was a passionate neutral. But he couldn’t prevent the matters over which he had no control from sucking us into the World War. And it is doubtful whether Champ Clark, whom he defeated in 1912, or Charles Evans Hughes, whom he defeated in 1916, or anybody else could have stopped our blindfolded slide over the precipice. men THE munitions investigation has lifted some of those blindfolds. We know now. as we didn’t know then, that insistence upon traditional freedom of the seas for American passengers and American goods is incompatible with neutrality. We know now, as we didn’t know then, that in building up a tremendous war trade we built up a vested interest in the war which led inevitably to making loans to maintain that trade volume, and in turn to fighting to make good those loans, and then to making more bad loans, and ultimately to almost complete collapse. We know now, as we didn't know then, that the train of causes and effects set in motion in 1914 led inescapably to thousands of American graves in foreign soil and a now estimated tax burden of 100 bilUon dollars, most of which will have to be paid by generations yet unborn. The bonus which Congi ess is about to pass is but a small installment. Has the learning of these things been so much in vain that our lawmakers should now be dissipating their energies in a cat-and-dog political fight? Let us hope not. Let us hope Congress will cease its name-calling in time to do the serious job of mapping a neutrality course which will lead the country around those pitfalls. THE SILICOSIS REPORT OUT of confidential government files has come an official report in support of the charges that silicosis, contracted by workmen from breathing rock dust in a West Virginia tunnel, has caused Innumerable deaths. The report added numerous particulars about the plight of the slowly dying victims of a great engineering job—the driving of a water-power tunnel through three miles of mountain near Gauley Bridge. The document was a "research bulletin of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, based on a report by Leon Brower, statistician for the West Virginia relief organization. The House subcommittee investigating the tragedy is expected to have the report when it resumes its hearings today. It hopes also to have a number of the victims as witnesses. These are expected to include Mr. and Mrs. Charley Jones—the former dying of silicosis, the latter the mother of three sons who already have died. The witnesses are being brought here by private funds, supplied by the "Gauley Bridge Committee” of New York, headed by Dr. John A. Andrews of the American Association lor Labor Legislation. The relief report is 18 months old. Since then, according to testimony before the committee, its predictions of death have been amply borne out. "In the eany months of 1930,” says the FERA document, “large numbers of able-bodied Negroes were brought to Vanetta, W. Va., an abandoned coal-mining settlement which was prosperous as late as 1925, to engage in the drilling of a threemile tunnel required by an electric-power development. The mountain to be pierced was found to consist of pure silicate.” a a a SILICOSIS, "a disease which destroys lung tissues and ultimately causes suffocation,” presently developed among many of the workmen, the report said. “On completion of the project in September. 1932, Vanetta reverted to the status of an abandoned village,” the report continued. “In 1934 there were 91 persons in residence, occupying 41 tumble-down hovels—l 4 children, 44 adult females, and 43 adult males. Os the latter all but 10 have silicosis. "Support for the community comes from the earnings of 15 of the males, 14 of whom suffer from silicosis. Thirteen are engaged cn a road-construc-tion project 18 miles away and are forced to walk to and from work, leaving them but five hours a day for labor. Moreover many, because of their illness. must lay off work every other day and are frequently too weak to lift a sledge hammer.” The FERA report quotes Statistician Brower at some length. "Coupled with all these hardships is starvation,” he wrote. “Relief has always been spasmodic and Irregular. Every family relayed the lack of food. One white person living in Vanetta kept many from starving. Milk has been unheard of for at least two years. * "The relief office is 14 miles from the community. These people would get up at 4 o’clock and trudge through the heavy snow to the office, inadequately clothed and hungry. Too often they found 4 u

that the relief agency was In no position to give saaistance. "Since these men have a short period to live, as much security as possible should be provided for them.” WE NOMINATE A S a candidate forlhe Pulitzer Prize for the best editorial Witten in 1935. the following from The New York Daily News: “STARRY-EYED IDEALISTS” In his recent down-with-Roosevelt speech at St. Louis, ex-President Hoover took occasion to snarl at "the starry-eyed idealists who periodically discover that relief is needed and that everything up to date is wrong.” This was an echo of the old. familiar complaint of many business people against the New Deal—that it is managed, not by hard-headed and practical business men, but by starry-eyed idealists and aspiring college professors who don't know red ink from black. We think this complaint can be turned inside out and shown to be insincere and a phony. What is the idea behind the fact that President Roosevelt has filled his government with economic professors, political reformers and mugwumps, experts on housing and social service and a hundred other things. Tugwells anxious to rebuild the country, Hopkinses anxious to spend the taxpayers’ money to make work for those whom the industries can not employ? The idea is this: That before Roosevelt, big business not only ran the government, but was the government. The Treasury was subject to orders from Wall Street; the State Department was dedicated to dollar diplomacy; the Supreme Court was the Ark of the Covenant of property rights over human rights; the President himself was run by big business, and glad and proud of it. This system was supposed to be the best guaranty of prosperity that there was. If the people at the top were taken care oi by every possible means available to the gove. nen.\ the belief was that prosperity would seep down from them to the masses below. As much prosperity, that is, as the masses were rightly entitled to. That philosophy of govern'nent hit a terrible rut in the road in 1929; so terrible that the machine was wrecked, some think beyond repair. Prosperity stopped seeping down from the top; misery and fear began seeping up from the bottom. When Mr. Roosevelt came in, he decided that a new philosophy of government (new for this country, that is) must be tried out, since the old one had failed so wretchedly. Accordingly, he surrounded himself with ihe aforesaid experts and idealists, and put the professional politicians and practical business men in the shade. a a a / T'HESE experts and idealists are hateful to big business for this reason: They are disinterested. they have no personal axes to grind, and they can not be controlled or reached by big business. That is what hurts. The power to govern has slipped from the hands of business, operating through the professional politicians. It has slipped into the hands of men who have spent their lives studying for the very jobs Mr. Roosevelt has given them. Hence the hatred for Mr. Roosevelt entertained by many big and little business men—the personal, blind fury that swells their necks when they think about him. It is their desire for power which he has thwarted. Everybody wants power. Along with the selfpreservation and sex instincts, the lust for power is one of the strongest human instincts. Sons have killed their fathers for power, and vice versa; families have been rent into fighting factions over power; old friends have jumped for one another’s throats when power was at stake. To see the power to run the government slipping from their hands naturally hurts business people. When a man is making plenty of money over and above his living, eating and family expenses, his most usual desire is to use the surplus to influence other people—to uplift them with libraries, or force his ideas of right living on them by subsidizing Anti-Saloon Leagues, or monkey with the people’s government in the various ways open to a man w 7 ho has money. Roosevelt has stopped that stuff, at least in part. He is as tough-minded and courageous as the big business men whose power he has (indeed, as yet, in slight degree) shorn away, and he is a better practical politician than anybody now working to unseat him. No wonder many a business man hates Roosevelt. And, business men being as human as the rest of us, it is no wonder that they figure out high-sounding excuses for w’hat is only a very human hatred, after all. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson I’VE never felt envious of the country’s Ten Best Dressed Women, but not from any excess of virtue. The very thought of what the pace-setters must endure makes the blood pressure rise. So far as fashion goes, women, aren’t allowed anything comparable to the business men’s Breathing Spell. We have to proceed at a furious rate just to hold our own in the rear of its procession. Let me illustrate. Having planned a trip to Washington I thought it wise to time the journey during a period when the wardrobe would be in good repair and adequate for the season. I wouldn’t have to buy anything except maybe a few odds and ends such as shoes, stockings, lingerie, handbags and cosmetics. That self-satisfied frame of mind did not long survive, however. No sooner had the salesgirls whom I know got wind of the jaunt than they assailed me in store and shop as well as by phone. "Oh, Mrs. Ferguson,” goes the chorus, "you aren't leaving without a spring hat, are you? We just got in some of the loveliest models.” Or, "You’ll be wanting a new dinner dress. Something in taffeta, I hope. That red of yours is a little passe surely.” o*, "Really and truly, while the green frock is smart, the neck line isn’t so good now. You should have one of the new man-tailored suits. They’re so handy. Miss Madge writes from market that she couldn't do without hers.” Drat Miss Madge and markets! I wish I’d never heard of them. With my winter outfit scarcely paid for yet. and with very little actual wear out of it, here it is a few weeks after New Year's and all the stores have out their most enticing spring models. It’s more than feminine flesh and blood can bear. The whole process of buying furs in August and chiffons in January is as mad as the March Hare’s Tea Party to the average woman. Remember when all the ladies in town put on their new outfits on Easter Sunday, and not one minute before? FROM THE RECORD T* EPRESENTATIVE M'CORMACK (D. Mass.): When he (Republican Chairman Fletcher) undertakes to imply that the action on the part of the National Broadcasting Cos. and the Columbia Broadcasting Cos. is connected with the present Administration, then I say he should produce the evidence. I challenge him to produce that evidence. In the absence of the production of the evidence, the gentleman stands before the American public as a prevaricator.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

WE went out to the John Herron Art Institute the other day. Joe Collier and I. Joe was to look into the Egyptian exhibit and I just went along for the ride. In the Victorian era when country folk saw buggies and carriages going by they often hitched up and joined the procession, knowing a funeral was on the program. They might not have known the late lamented but it was an excuse for getting together and catching up on the neighborhood news. So when I saw Joe wrapping his muffler around his neck and starting fdr Herron I decided to go along. a a a T AM glad I went. For I got to see the traveling exhibit of puppets which is at Herron until the end of the month. Puppets have always interested me from the time I saw my first Punch and Judy show. The Punch and Judy show dramatizes the basis of all life. It is universal. Punch beats his wife and the devil drags Punch off to his deserved punishment. If the younger generation of this age does not get to see a Punch and Judy show it is being deprived of something more important than algebra and the indirect discourse of Caesar in his story of how he built the bridge. a a a TN the Herron exhibit are all kinds of puppets—those operated by wires from above and those operated by the push and pull system from below. They are in costumes of all periods and some of the exhibits show them in scenes from the dramas which, with the voices of their operators, they enact. a a a TtA" AXWELL ANDERSON, perhaps **■"■*• America’s No. 1 playwright, has an assistant from Indiana named Carroll French who entered the stage world by working with puppets. He learned to draw and design stage settings to scale. Going east, he met up with Mr. Anderson and now has an important part in planning and executing the settings for Mr. Anderson’s plays. Mr. French was once a window trimmer for an Indiana department store. a a a MY reference to the newspaper published on the U. S. S. Indianapolis has brought quite a response in Navy circles. The local recruiting officer, J. A. Murphy, sends word that Wallace Beery holds the rank of lieutenant commander in the Nava.l Reserve, Aviation Corps. He adds that Walter Winchell is a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve. Imagine the confusion of the enemy were Mr. Beeo to drop bombs upon them and Mr. Winchell to take charge of propaganda! a a a r T~'he mail brings also a note from Ralph Cannon, of the Chicago Daily News, thanking this department for some compliments paid him for a recent article in Esquire. Our paper is not in accord with Ralph’s boss. Frank Knox, on seme political subjects, but that does not keep us from admiring the individuals on the paper. The sports department of the Chicago Daily News, conducted by Howard Mann, is one of the few complete, unhurried, polite sports departments of the country. For some reason attributable to good management, you can drop in there at almost any hour of the day, sit down and talk with Howard about any subject under the sun. I barged in on him in the fall when the World Series was on. The Cubs were playing in Detroit. You would have expected Howard and his staff to be in a dither. But there was no dither. We gossiped for an hour and the paper came out just the same. a a a t TF Mr. Knox is elected President he A should nominate Howard and Ralph for the diplomatic corps. OTHER OPINION [Marion Chronicle] A1 Smith's return to the open arena of politics has enlivened the Democratic scene greatly, although opinions differ as to the ultimate importance of the event. It is beginning to be understood generally that Mr. Smith's objections to Mr. Roosevelt and his policies are fundamental, deep-seated, earnest and tinged with a personal exasperation which almost surpasses the bounds of ordinary language. The conviction that the break between the two is complete and enduring, on Smith'j side at least, arises from several great and small causes. The strongest cause, perhaps, is the now widely disseminated knowledge of private and semi-private remarks Smith has made about the New Deal. % Putting two and two together, political circles believe they have arrived at a perfect four, denoting clearly that Smith is out to make active and perhaps desperate battle against the Administration, and particularly against the head of the Administration. The one clear conclusion, on the basis of all the facts, is that Smith is capable of making a great deal of trouble of one kind or another for Roosevelt, and evidently intends to do so.

WORKING THRU ELECTORAL COLLEGE!

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' The Hoosier Forum I wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

(Times leaders are, invited to express their views in these columns, reliuious controversies excluded. Make uour letter i short, so all can, have a chance. Limit them, to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sianed. but names will be withheld on reauest.) a a a CONSIDERS GOV. M’NUTT SQUARED WITH VOTERS By Pat Hogan Gov. McNutt has at last squared himself with the people of Indiana and regained the confidence of thinking voters. It is human to err and, as we considered Greenlee the Governor’s greatest mistake, v:e can now forget the lesser ones. But consider, dear gentle reader, the brazen boldness of this ousted secretary, for he has the gall to ask for the nomination as candidate for Governor. For two years Mr. Greenlee has had a salary and looked longingly and lovingly at the Governor’s mansion, cherished sanguine hopes for the day when he might strut through its portals to still greater power and salary. Mr. Greenlee once remarked in giving a job to one man, he made six enemies. Estimating that there is one political job for one out of every thousand voters, his elementary intelligence can not make him understand that besides the six there were still 993 persons better qualified for the job. Just what are his qualifications for this, the highest and most honorable position in the state? What excuse has he to ask for it other than that he would like the ease without effort, the salary and prestige of the office. a a FEARS F. D. R. HAD MORE WIT THAN WISDOM’ By Robert Taylor From an objective, non-partisan viewpoint, the Roosevelt Administration seems to have had more political wit than wisdom. The 1932 New Dealers were tops in political bright sayings, such as “That’s not my baby!” “Roosevelt or Ruin,” and numerous others. And the donkey can still kick pretty hard, judged by Roosevelt's pep

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or Information to The Indianapolis Times Home Service Bureau, 1013 Thirteenthst. N. W.. Washington. D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Q—ln what group of islands is Tahiti; what is its population and to whom does it belong? A—lt is one of the Society Islands and belongs to France. The population is about 16,780. Q —How did the custom of handshaking arise? A—Self preservation, the first law of nature, was the fundamental principle in all primitive etiquette. Early man must be ready at all times to defend himself against the attack of man or beast. He was suspicious of others. If a man was at his mercy, unarmed, then surely he was his friend, for this meant that he could do no harm. Therefore, if one savage wished to prove his friendship for another, he advanced with his right hand extended in greeting. Thus with his weapon hand empty he could not be dangerous. The other man who wished to respond to his greeting stretched out his right hand. The clasp betokened understanding and mutual trust. This was the beginning of our social handshake. Q —Who is the head of the Civilian Conservation Corps? A—Robert Fechner is the administrator for the Emergency Conservation Work. Q —Should long or short gloves be worn at a ball or dance? A —At strictly formal balls long gloves are essential. Q —ls the climate of Juneau, Alaska, very severe? * A—lt has a temperate climate with considerable rainfall. July, the

session in Congress the other evening. The New Deal Administration has been, for the most part, sincerely engaged in a commendatory battle for small rights. With this in mind, it seems a shame that most of the New Deal will have to be scrapped as unconstitutional. However, the Supreme Court could not have done otherwise than it did do in the NRA and AAA decisions. Not even if the nine old men had all been Roosevelt Democrats could they conscientiously have rendered constitutional decisions on legislation which is strictly unconstitutional. It seems incredible that a President who is supposed to be as politically intelligent as Roosevelt should even hope that the' AAA could pass on the ambiguous "general welfare” clause in the Constitution. a a a LET’S STICK TO F. D. R.; PLAY SAFE, HE SAYS By Oscar Houston, Ellettsville President Roosevelt’s address to Congress and the nation was the most courageous address that I have ever listened to from any President. Always before we have had to content ourselves with listening to long drawn-out statistics in reference to the different departments of government which, of course, are important, but iR his address he dealt with the different phases of life that we are all so vitally interested in. He gave us to understand he was willing to continue to fight for our security and willing to stand or fall on that issue. He didn’t mince words—he called a spade a spade. He put his finger on the big interests that are planning to use their powerful influence in this coming election to defeat him and destroy every vestige of the laws that have been enacted and others that are being planned for the security and happiness of our people. In the light of these important facts, as voters what are we going to do about it? What are the farmers going to do? What are the laboring people going to do? And we, the aged whose earning power is gone, but through the passage of

warmest month, average 57.6 degrees Fahr., and January, the coldest, averages 27.3 degrees. Only 53 days of zero weather or below have been recorded in 33 years, the coldest of these being 15 degraes below zero. Q—What is the population of Los Angeles County, California? A—The 1930 census enumerated 2,208,492. Q —Do natives of Puerto Rico need passpo -s to enter the United States, and are they eligible for American citizenship? A—Natives of Puerto Rico are American citizens, and do not require passports to enter the United States by direct route. Q—What is a seismograph? A—An apparatus to register the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes. Q—Has Addis Ababa always been the capital of Ethiopia? A—The earliest capital appears to have been Aksum. in Tigre province. Gondar in Amhara was the capital from the middle ages to the middle of the nineteenth century. Since 1892 the capital has been Addis Ababa in Shoa. Q—Who is the governor of Guam? A—Capt. George A. Alexander of the United States Navy. Q —How many members of the Italian Fascist Party are there in Italy? A—On June 24. 1932, there were 1.329.693 members of the party. In 1931 the Fascist organization of children had 1,881,980 boys and girls ranging in age from 6 to 18 years. Q —Give the atomic number and weight of uranium. A—Atomic number 92; atomic weight 238.2.

the old-age pension bill, can look forward with a feeling of security, what are we going to do? And the business man and all other groups whose burdens in life are going to be lightened by these liberal policies backed up by Congress and one of the most humanitarian Presidents in the history of our government. The challenge is to all of us. My advice is to take no chances—stick to President Roosevelt and play safe. j a a BLAMES CAPITALISM FOR NATION’S PLIGHT By a Subscriber. The myth that the depression is over is mockery to millions of starving people. As long as the common people blindly perpetuate the two old parties in power, the depression is here to stay. Capitalism is the master of the two old parties and they obey its commands. The present Administration has attempted to dress capitalism in sheep’s clothing, so that it would look presentable. But the wolf blood is too strong and it is as vicious as ever in its greed for power and profits. REQUIEM BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK I who once never gave a thought To death or dying or the dead, Now find myself so near that I Can share the coldness of their bed. I who once laughed as sunshine laughs, And loved as wild winds, bold and free, Now find my spirit bound and tied, No longer gay with ecstasy. * Oh I who always said that mind And soul triumphed, and were my all, Now find my body chaining me. And leading me to death's gray pall. DAILY THOUGHTS Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. —Ezekiel 18:4. a a a LIFE is the soul’s nursery—its training place for the destinies of eternity.—Thackeray.

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Your... Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

you grown-ups, as a rule, dont need much vitamin D beyond that obtained from eggs, butter and j similar foods. That is, of course. ! provided you get also a reasonable amount of sunlight. At that, however, miners who spend most of their daily life grubbing in sunless subterranean regions don’t seem to show any evidence oi the lack of vitamin D. Still, they do get outdoors some of the time, and it is possible for the human bodr to store extra vitamin D. But growing children simply mus' have this extra amount. Especiall> is this true with youngsters living in large cities, where the smoke screen is so dense that only enough ultraviolet rays penetrate through at midday in the summer months to be of any benefit. And then, too. prospective mothers and especially nursing mothers should have vitamin D in addition to that supplied in their foods. In fact, they should have, as well, surplus calcium and phosphorous. Most scientific authorities will ted you that the American diet does not contain enough calcium. a a a INCIDENTALLY, scientists still debate whether vitamin D in milk is more beneficial, unit for unit, than the vitamin D in cod liver oil. Not only human beings, but animals, too. suffer from a deficiency of vitamin D. Hens, for instance. Nowadays, henhouses are betng equipped with carbon arcs or other ultraviolet ray-producing apparatus. And some henhouses have been equipped with special window glass so the hens may be benefited by the sun’s ultraviolet rays. Better still, however, for poultrv is chicken feed to which the valuable substance has been added. The best chicken feed today contains not only extra vitamin D, but also extra vitamin A. And fish oils are being added to foods for both stock and poultry as a cheap source of this essential vitamin. As explained previously, cows likewise are being fed with irradiated yeast to give them extra vitamin D. which eventually appears in the milk.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

THE air in the average size room weighs 169 pounds. The aver-i age person, in the course of the day takes a weight of air into his lungs which exceeds the weight of the food he eats. A cubic foot of air weighs just a little more than the letter which Uncle Sam will let you send through the mails for 3 cents. These are interesting facts about the atmosphere pointed out by Dr. L. R. Koller of the research laboratory of the General Electric Cos. Research laboratories like this one are interested in the air for many reasons. Certain gases in the atmosphere have very high commercial importance. As most every one knows, the air is a mixture of a number of gases, some of them present in large amounts, others in minute traces. Nitrogen makes up approximately 78 per cent of the air. Next comes oxygen which forms 21 per cent. The remaining 1 per cent includes j carbon dioxide, water vapor, hydro- ! gen, the five rare gases, helium, neon, argon, krypton and xenon, traces of radioactive emanation and traces of other gases too numerous to mention. a a a INDUSTRY is particularly interested in three of the rare gases today. Argon is extracted from the atmosphere and used to fill the ordinary incandescent lamp bulb. Neon is used in the familiar red advertising signs. Helium is used in balloons but the supply is obtained from gas wells and not from the atmosphere. Another important constituent of the atmosphere, Dr. Koller points out, is dust. The particles range in size from the cinder which may lodge in your eye to particles so minute that they stay floating in the air for an indefinite time. Even in clear air. he says, there are thousands of these tiny particles, so fine that they can not be detected by the most powerful microscope. However, these particles are known to play an important part in the formation of clouds and fogs.

By George Clark