Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1936 — Page 10

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— SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1836.

THE ROOSEVELT VISIT

tend the open Indiana State Fair and inspect public projects financed by:the Federal government.

the route of his tour here are the

Along

. Lockefield Gardens housing development, the |

‘of the new Federal Building wing, the WPA !

armory project, extensive building improve-

ments at the State Fairground, and other val-

| tive Planning Officials, who says: “I do not know |

uable works in which the city takes pride. Probably no one would contend there have not been errors in this program. Yet our citi zens who have worked to get these projects have done so with the purpose of adding to the community's permanent wealth, and not

‘with an idea. of politics. Republicans and Democrats alike have co-operated to get the ‘maximum benefits for Indianapolis: And it is in the spirit of co-operation that | Govetnors and other officials of Indiana and ‘neighboring states have met today to work |

on the drought problem.

MAY IT BE AN EXAMPLE! Ir it's true what they say up at Harvard, that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts—or even vice versa—both Roosevelt | and Lgndon made votes by the way they per- | formed [in Des Moines. Here \ were two political opponents, in the | midst of’ a campaign widely prophesied as | : centlemen; displaying tact and the sort |

dirty, acting as consideration, one toward the other; | smanship that always brings the | cheers from an American audience whether it be baseball, tennis, boxing, football or golf. Imagine, by the way, such a meeting of op- | ponents in Spain, or in a lot of those other countries around the globe where they shoot | ‘em if they catch ‘em, for differences in affairs |

of good sport

of state. It! always has been somewhat of a puzzle to us why, when a person who has lived apparently a decent and upright life for many years and is respected, sufficiently to justify his being chosen to run for public office— why that person should so suddenly be pictured as a scoundrel once he goes before the electorate; should then have to be subjected to the whips and scorns of hate. The whole thing never has made sense, but it nevertheless is the tradition of politics—and is what breeds such rather gloating predictions as that with which James A. Farley invoked the 1936 |

contest. Anyhow, we feel that an example was set | in Des Moines which, if it could be followed by the other and lesser lights in this campaign, would mean much for our democracy, add much in terms of respect by the average citizen toward those who go into politics, and bring about an excecdingly beneficial substitution of light for heat. After all the primary purpose of a campaign should be informative, should be of the head rather than the glands, should lean toward the intellect instead of the emotions. Nobody ever made a good decision by first getling sore: Incidentally, on the same day that this demonstration of decency and good taste was being given, Frank Knox, Republican vice presidential candidate, was getting red in the . face and belching forth his wrath up in New | England. Frank, a very pleasant fellow to meet personally, face to face, always sounds mad over the radio, and how he does love his overstatements. Here's an excerpt from his

President | { ments,

{ homa City, | Falls, Decatur, Springfield, Mass, and Hart-

JFanaroLls extends a welcome today to | ford, New Haven and New Britain, Conn. I President Roosevelt, who is here to conduct Fog : | Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Houston, Macon,

a drought conference and, incidentally, to at- | ga

ing of the eighty-fourth annual |

| and political unrest.

| proceeding on to Leningrad}

ample inventory of invective as exhibited in Lewiston, Me.:

‘now be over the depression.”

Now we all know that Frank doesn't really i

beliey ein anarchy—but it's that great yen of his to go the limit, to put it strong] to blister

‘em. that makes him abominate, dztest, loathe | and abhor so much, and put forth talk like |

that. | So we say that we hope the precept: of Des Moines as patterned by the two number oners will have the effect of markedly altering the tone from now until November, of making Farley considerably less gleeful over the earthy aspects of the ‘contest, and of caus“ing the colonel and the rest to realize the truth of the maxim that abuse is not argument. = ! : If that be the result, there'll be more thinking and less feeling, come election day, and ‘therefore more sanity. :

| FREEDOM

LAUDE BOWERS" new book, “Jefferson in Power,” tells of one time when Baron ~ Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist “and traveler, visited Jéfferson in the White l« _ | taking up a Federalist newspaper ~ from the table in Jefferson's study, and noting the falsity and scurrility of the personal attack on his host, he (Humboldt) asked, in-

these libels allowed? Why is belous journal suppressed or its ditor at least fined or imprisoned?" * “Jefferson smiled happily. ; ‘Put that paper in your pocket,' Baron’ aid, ‘and should you ‘hear the reality of

: i: ; OUR PARKS

HEN Indianapolis is host to the annual | Indiana Association of Park Depart- | the community | may point with some pride to its accomplish- |

Sept. 13, 14 and: 15,

ments in park development.

A national ‘survey shows Indianapolis ap- | proaching a theoretical 'fdeal’ in adequate | | park facilities, the approximate yardstick be- : ing one acre of recreation space for every 100 i ‘residents, and park and playground area com-

| prising about one-tenth of a city’s total area. Price in |

Indianapolis, with 26 parks totaling 2869.2

{ acres, has one acre for every 124 resident. Mail subscrip- | $3 a |

65 | in providing recreational: areas are Denver,

Among the. cities that have outstripped us

with one acre to every 23 persons; Joliet, Iii,

| one to 30; Fort Worth, Tex., one to 38, and i 34 Dallas, ope to 42. Other.cities exceeding the

“ideal” are San Antonio, Spokane, Tulsa, Okla~ Savannah, ' Pasadena, Wichita

Evansville, Ind.; Washington, Kansas City,

and Asheville, N. Ci, approach the Indianapolis standard. Trailing far behind are New York, Chicago, Detroit; Pittsburgh, Akron,

| Birmingham, Albany I al other cities. !{ Newark, N. J, has one agrre to 11,403 persons.

reational facilities.

even more attractive, however, by increasing | +. these park and playground areas. We should

take our cue from Walter H. Blucher, execudirector of the American Society of

of any community in the! United States that

i has too much park area.”

WANTED:.13 MILLION HOMES

its Monthly Survey of Business the American Federation of Labor finds that the United States faces an acute housing shortage, and must build 13,196,000 new homes wthin the next decade in order properly to house its people. : Today, the Federation! declares, 3,228,000 families are Mving in houses unfit for human

habitation. By a “very conservative estimate” | we*should build 1,320,000 new homes each year | from now until 1945.

The Federation reaches a conclusion, now accepted by practically all students of rehousing, that we can not depend on private

| capital alone to fill the country’s housing needs. | Families of the- North and West with incomes

of $1500 a year or less and those of the South with less than $1200 incomes, the A. F. of L. says, will not be supplied with homes by private builders. Private capital simply is not interested in such low-cost housing units as speculative investments. The United States Department of Commerce, in its’ 1933 survey of urban housing, showed that twe-thirds of all American families had incomes below these levels. Even if prosperity should lift workers’ incomes to the 1929 level, one-third of our families would not be supplied by private builders, says the A. F. of L. This means | that out of the 1,320,000 new homes needed eéach year private capital is not likely to build more than 880,000, The other 440,000 must either be built with the help of public subsidies’ or they will not be built. These- figurés point ‘with solid logic to the need of some such measure ascthe WagnerEllenbogen hosing bill, defeated at the last session of Congress but to be revived in the next. 1 ! They also pgint to the vallie of such experiments as the low-cost model housing project in Indiangpolis, 1 A public investment in good homes is insurance against crime, -disease, delinquency And it is an investment in recovery and permanent prosperity. 5 g BLANTONISM IN RUSSIA OM BLANTON, defeated Texas Congressman, says he is returning to Washington to practice law. : Better than practicing law in a field already overcrowded and in a city where he has none too many friends anyway—having spent most

| of his time in Congress prescribing ‘teachers’

oaths and nosing into all the books the teachers read in their spare time+we suggest that Tom may want to consider fpe advisability of where things ares being done according to his pattern. A big crusade to purge the schools of Trotskyism has led to the drrest of three instructors in the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute, where, the Soviet press charges, the director “lacked the necessary vigilance in keeping heresies out of the gghool.” Having had considerable experience

the firing squad.

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HALF WAY WITH F. D. R.

% Pi SKILLFUL one-man review of the Roose- |

velt Administration, Half Way With Roosevelt” (Viking Press), by Ernest K. Lindley, newspaper man, conclifes with® the idea that the President has moved forward a little way and set in motion powerful forces generated by powerful ideas, which will continue. The author leaves no doubt that if Landon

were elected and tried to.carfy out the policies:

for which he stands, he woyld encounter the same resistance from the leaders of the Liberty League and the big bufiness men that Roosevelt has. Lindley has “covered” Roosevelt since his nomination in, 1932, for | The New Yor Herald-Tribune, and now if reporting Gov. Landon’s campaign: : bio In attempting to pass judgment on New

the leading error. In addition, he complains that Roosevelt ‘should have, done something about the Supreme Court in (1933, when there was some chance of success ih heading off the 1935-36 disasters, and also that Roosevelt was too optimistic of natural recovery, which caused him to defer an agiressive spending policy at the outset. i His NRA conclusion, contemporary history is bound to be, probably will arouse the antagonism of most of those who took part in the e iment. He state; flatly without supporting evidence that it is “error” to credit most of the}1933-34 recovery and re-employment to NRA. [It is the impression of many students of NRA that this credit

hours, wages, etc., certainly indicate that NRA

this comparison, ‘Indianapolis is well> { ahead of the mythical “average” city in rec-

boulevard extensions along Fall Creek, the site | The city could ‘be made |

“OUR TOWN

Anton Scherrer

IPE with pride, Miss Laurel Conwell Thayer i

rode into Laurel, Ind. one day last month

| to help celebrate the centennial of that town's.

foundation. :

: Nobody had a better right to be proud. For one thing, her grandfather, James Conwell, was | the founder of the town. For another, she was named for the town. It's too bad, of course, that Miss Thayer wasn’t born in Laurel, too. Except for that, hers might have been a perfect record. Proud as Punch, too, came the O'Hair Sisters ~ Belle, Alice, Kate— and with them, Judge Walter Pritchard, whose mother was Lillie O’Hair. Came, too, Mr. arid Mrs. Clayton A. Barth and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Barth and Mrs. C. C. Williams and Gilbert Hunsinger and Billy Clauer, ‘one-time treasurer of Marion County. Indeed, so great was the influx of Indianapolis folk -that for a time it looked as if Laurel, Ind., might yet |

make good its threat of a hundreds years ago.

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HERE were plenty of good reasons.

| Laurel and which promised to connect Cam- | bridge City with. Cincinnati, brought thousands of workmen to the place. Every mother’s son

In less time than it takes to tell Laurel had 11 distilleries.

any doubt about the Academy. As for the schoolhouse, it was the start of

dynasty. At the reunion last month, for instance, eight O'Hairs got up—all teachers, mind i you. Altogether the Laurel O'Hairs have turned | out 32 school teachers. : 8.0.8 g i HE Laurel centennial was good for a lot | of secrets like that. Oliver | Holmes, for instance, came to Laurel once upon | a time to look up the graves of Byron Forcythe | Willson ahd his wife, who was also a Con- | well. Both, it turns out, were early Indiana | poets of great promise. ; | Laurel, indeed, had more than her share of { prominent people. Charles Murray, often referred to by loyal Laurelites as “the great motion picture star,” was born there. Sayah T. Bolton was -born in Laurel and wrote a pretty poem about it. So was David M. Parry. So was Louis Gifford King, who attained much fame as an actor and who was at one time with Frohman. Mr. King was Mrs. Clayton A. Barth’s brother, which, according to the pattern of Burke's Peerage, makes her a granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Gifford, if you get what I mean. : : Anyway, it accounted for Mrs. Barth's presence at the centennial because Dr. Gifford was one of the grand characters of Laurel. Mrs. Barth picked up a lot she never knew before and saw the saddle bags her grandfather owned 100 years aga. They contained his medical bottles just as he had left them. In 1849, whisky could be obtained in Laurel only from Dr. Gifford and then only as medicine. It’s something else nobody knew until the other day.

September Sth IN INDIANA HISTORY

By J. H. J.

IRST formal battle in Indiana during the War of 1812 was fought Sept. 5, 1812, at Fort, Harrison, located where Terre Haute now stands. Capt. Zachary Taylor commanded the fort, which had been approached by a party of Indians from the Winnebago, Kickapoo, Pottawattomie and Shawnee tribes, whose chiefs asked for a conference with Capt. Taylor. About 11 o'clock the night of Sept. 4, the garrison was awakened by rifle fire. Capt. Taylor found the Indians had fired the blockhouse at the lower: corner of the fort. Over half the 50 men of the garrison, including Taylor, were ill.. When he ‘paraded the troops in the fort, he found some men too weak to stand, By this time the blockhouse, where all supplies except powder were kept, was burning rapidly and the Indians were attacking. Two of the ablest soldiers jumped over the stockade and

fort where he sneaked inside. The courage of Capt. Taylor was all that saved the fort from destruction, historians tell us. The blockhouse was burned but the bar-

feet in the wall, but no Indian

left a gap of 20 By daylight the Indians were

dared enter it. repulsed.

in | | heresy tracking, maybe Tom, can get a job : | with the Soviet secret police. Or, maybe, on “If we had closed up the Federal gov- | Ld ernment entirely in March, 1933, we should |

speculative as any

Pd " . . A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON CCORDING to the Interior Department, the | \ place for girls to find ‘husbands is Alaska.

' For Alaska, it seems, is filled with lonely males | longing for feminine companionship. Those

| stalwart men who brave the wilderness actually

i need wives, which ought to be grand news for i the girls. : : There is one drawback. Along with the man, | the girl has to accept the hardships which go | with: sparsely settled lands. . And a good many of our girls age too soft |to take that. When it comes to choosing be-

| tween modern plumbing and masculine protec-

beauty shop and the picture show.

{ simple good sense to follow them there. Statistics show that our large cities

| feminine population.

{ When our eountry was in the making, thou1g : sands of New England girls went West on the Deal phases, Lindley chalks gown the NRA as | trail of their game, and most of them later be{came the mistresses of homes; even though i their first homes were sod houses. Their lives | not nearly so easy as they would have ‘been in their snug New England But the zest of a great struggle was It was Life with a capital L. that they ; wanted, even as our girls want it now. It can be had by those who have the courage to seek but it is not to be gained by wishful think-

i were not easy,

villages. theirs.

it,

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For if the truth be told, Laurel, Ind. at one time threatened to lick Cincinnati, O. -Miss Thayer's grandfather was sure of it. And so were the O'Hairs, for in the home of the O’Hairs in Indianapolis are letters from the O’Hairs in Laurel to relatives in Cincinnati advising that they sell their Ohio property and move to Laurel.

The digging of the Whitewater Canal, which | started almost immediately after the platting of

cot $18.50 a month to do with as he pleased.

It looked even better with the coming of the Academy and the schoolhouse because it’s no secret that the Laurel Academy had the Brookville Academy licked. There was always some question whether Brookville or Laurel had: the better brass band, but there was never

the O’Hair dynasty of school teachers in Indianapelis. You have no idea of the size of that

Wendell |

tried to escape. One was Killed by the Indians and the other driven back to the walls of the

racks were saved. The destroyed blockhouse

| tion they'll take the plumbing. Naturally, they | want husbands, but they want them in electric- | lighted apartments and in proximity to the

| An Englishman recently made the same { charges against the young ladies of ‘his coun- | try. Most of the eligible males of the British | Empire, he wrote, live Sin the. colonies, yet | mighty few of the husband hurters possess the

are { poor places for the woman who is seeking a i mate, since they usually have a surplus of

> Q-Will Presiden Roosevelt's term end on : | Jan. 20, 1637, or on March 4 of : can not be explained away. [Ihe statistics of : ; 4 of that year?

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UNCLE TOMS CABIN!

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so. all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.) . #

SHOULD U. S. CHANGE JOBHOLDERS? HE ASKS By R. F. Paine, San Francisco All businesses are allied with and largely dependent upon the banking business, and vice versa. It is also indisputable that every business, particularly the financial business, is in 3 shape, if popular confidence = good will are not 5.

among its ass . Five years ago, banking -had mighty little of such assets, and there was good reason for it. “The crash” had revealed that thousands of banks were gambling or agents for gambling ‘in stocks, with’ millions of the people deluded victims. “First thing,” declared one of Shakespeare's Comthunist characters, upon capturing a town, “let's, hang all the lawyers!” No bankers were hanged, after “the crash” expose but thousands lost their banks and a moderate, number of them were jailed and ,in several conspicuous « instances, the popular sentiment did not fall far short of hangings. What a change is of record today! On June 30, 1936, with fewer banks by thousands throughout the country, the deposits in national banks were. the largest in the history of American banking and the deposits in state banks have increased proportionately. Why? Public confidence in banks is at flood tide. Reckless, illegitimate banking has died of its inherent rottenness or by reason of government regulation. Again, mighty has been the effect of Federal insurance of bank deposits and the advantages offered would-be home-builders under the Federal Housing Authority. It is government “interference” in the banking business. But, we now have popular confidence in the banking

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association OST persons think that a pain in the middle of the abdomen always is due to something they have eaten, and they usually try to get rid of it by taking a laxative or cathartic. : : Actually a pain or disturbance in the abdominal area may be due to one or more of innumerable causes, and it is well to know what is wrong before endeavoring to develop any

single line of treatment. A sensation of fullness, or weight, may be due either to a nervous condition or the presence of an ulcer. Even a tumor may be involved. Sometimes a persistent pain in the abdomen may be due to a disturbance affecting .the heart. In

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with inflammation of the lungs. If a feeling of severe nausea and weakness accompanies the pain, there may be an associated disturbance of the blood, which is far more serious than the pain itself. Development of gas in the bowels bor in the stomach frequently is a cause of pain and irritation, as well as nausea. Sometimes this is swalJowed gas, due to the fact that the patient eats too rapidly and swal~lows a good deal of air at the time of. eating. 3 : Ed In other instances, the gas develops from foods or because of some actual physical change irr the lining of the stomach, or in the intestines. ; In many cases in which persons have a sense of fullness or distention in the stomach after taking a very small quantity of food, it is found that the stomach has failed to relax as it should when the food

other cases, it may be associated |

business and, under the FHA plan, banks are willing to loan their fat deposits at 5 per cent, with government backing. Splendid demonstrations of the confidence upon which the progress toward normal prosperity depends, notwithstanding an unbalanced budget and a national debt of some 33 billions. Banks full of money, electric production the greatest in all time, steel output highest in six years, folks building homes in almost every community beyond all precedent. Shall the condition and the tendency be changed merely to put in a.new lot of job holders? If so, how and what the risk? Such is the question for all who do business, regardless of their party affiliations. We're not sliding backward or standing still; we're on the way to recovery. » xn ” “COCKEYED” WAS GOOD WORD, HE SAYS By Jack Raper . - Gov. Landon put a punch in his Buffalo speech. He used the word “cockeyed.” It swept an audience of 25,000 men, women and probably some children right off their feet, stood ’em on their heads. The applause for the word was deafening. It made work easy for the newspaper headline writers, too. They didn’t have to read through the whole speech and study it carefully to find something upon which to write the headlines. When they saw it they grabbed it and the headlines wrote themselves. fl Some of ‘the newspaper editors became so excited they looked up the word in two dictionaries and others sent reporters to dictionary experts, who said ‘“cockeyed” had been used for 125 years and had been in the dictionaries 111 years. Just about as old as “Oh, Suzanna!” 7 E-3 =

UPBRAIDS F. D. R. FOR RUSSIAN RECOGNITION

By Lester Gaylor

An interesting excerpt from an editorial in the London Times, July 20, 1936, stated: “Agitators trained in Russian’ (propaganda) schools, Soviet journalists and observers, have been entering Spain constantly and unobtrusively since February, and it is signficant that prominent Russian Communists foretold so long ago as the spring that Spain would be in a state of chaos by July. “Their expectations were uncannily precise and have been fulfilled to the letter. The political confusion which Lenin indicated as the propi-

tious moment for a proletariat insyrrection has descended upon Spain, and, whatever the military outcome of the present struggle, ruthless dictatorship seems inevitable. More than murder and reprisals, more than vandalism, oppression ‘and civil war—that is the tragedy ‘of Spain.” v This is the fruit which any. nation may expect from diplomatic association with a faithless regime of murderers “dedicated to the promotion ‘of world revolution.” This Moscow clique of renowned gangsters was officially recognized by Franklin D. Roosevelt against the will of the American people, and he has co-operated heartily with them and their brain trust. The flocking of 5000 Socialists from Norman Thomas to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the declaration‘of the assembled Communists in this country that the “American” Landon must be defeated at all costs is the sounding of the greatest alarm against communism that America has ever known. : The American people will either rise up in defense of their glorious liberties or they will perish with their civilization and will be crushed forever by .the iron heels of communism and fascism as has been Europe.

TO OUR PRESIDENT

BY THOMAS E. HALSEY Your heart was born to understand ~The problems of a Christian land;

Your voice ordained to give command;

Your eyes the truth to see;

Your wisdom righteous things fo plan

That guarantees to every man A new perspective of his span— A sense of victory.

Your faith and courage shall array New hopes to banish all dismay. Your hand will ever point the way To peace and happiness. Your friendliness and kindly traits Shall temper ‘human fears and hates That we emerge from darkened straights : .

To national success!

DAILY THOUGHT

Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.—Job 19:7.

oO fallacy can hide wrong, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.—Rivarol.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clarke

’ certainty.

Vagabond

Indiana

ERNIE PYLE ced

EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporter for The Times goes where Ee pleases, when he pleases, in search for odd stories about this and that. ®

ANFF, Alberta, Sept. 5.—Th® Canadian Rockies, like Mexico and Broadway, are something that everybody should see. -e People who have been all around tell me that the Canadian Rockies

are grander, more dramatic, more appalling than the American Rockies. I am willing to cast my vote that way. Canada discovered its Rockies, commercially, 50 years ago. It was in 1885 that Banff National Park was set up by the government, &s just a small area. Fog - Since then it has been expanded until now it comprises four parks, covering the ‘heart of Canada’s Rockies. running for 200 milés up the ridge of the Great Divide, and averaging some 50 miles across. : The four parks are Banff, Koote« nay, Yoho and Jasper. 4 ” = HERE are two ways to spend a vacation in the Canadian Rockies. . 1. (For the do-nothings)—Go to Banff or Lake Louise, hire a room in the big Canadian Pacific Hotel, and look out the window. When you tire of that you can stroll around the grounds in .your Fifth-av clothes, or visit the' Zoo, or take a plunge in the hot sulphu pool, or play mile-high golf, or a tend lectures on the geology of th mountain structure, or take a bus trip. ’ . In between times you have Ritz Carlton lunch, and tea in the lobby around 4:30, and in the eve ning you slip on your boiled shirk and tails, elbow through all the flunkeys, dine in solemn dignity and then dawnce a bit. 2. (For the up-and-doers)—Thesa are the people who really inhale the Rockies. The park has thing fixed so they can do it with a maximum of pride and a minimum of discomfort. Scattered through the interi wilds of the park, 10 or 20 and ev 30 miles apart, are chalet camps, most of them run bs the Canadian . Pacific Railroad. ; ’ The chalet is a central Ilodg® where people take their meals and loaf in front of a big fireplace. Scaftered around in the woods are front six to .20 log cabins, rustic little af= fairs, each with three beds, a wood stove and a wash pan. : Some of these chalet camps can be reached by auto, and some only on horseback. They are all set in outstanding beauty spots, usually on a lake among glacial peaks. The up-and-doers ride or walk {to one-of these camps, stay for a few days or a week, and every day take long hikes, or horseback rides, or get a Swiss guide and climb a glas cier. :

2 x! FALL somewhere between these two classes of vacationisis. My pocketbook is too weak for a sojourn, among the rich at the big hotels, and my legs too weak to leap over many mountains. So I compromise by staying in a big hotel one. night, taking one horseback ride to a chalet, ‘and then hiding the rest of the time. £ a What I would really like fo do is to go up to {he magnificent Chateau Louise during the month after tha park officially closes. The Canadian Pacific sends all its summer park employes up there for a month's vacation, and they -have the whola place to themselves, and have whae is described as the world’s best time. Incidentally, these Canadian Pa= cific park employes—chalet managers, waitresses, maids, chore boys, guides and so on—are about the grandest people I ‘have ever run onto. . :

: ’ : : Today’s Science BY SCIENCE SERVICE NCE upon a time, when a flood, drought ‘or earthquake dis= rupted the smooth course of a man's life, he attributed it to the gods, The only cure was somehow to curry, the favor of this or that deity. Lack= ing such supernatural support, his was a teetering, precarious world. Somewhere along the course of evolution, however, man began to learn that he could help matters {a some extent by his own actions. A fire properly kindled helped ward

off death by freezing. A roof of boughs made him somewhat more

{ independent of the whims. of |thg

rain god. 3 x And so stepping from discovery to discovery, man’s attitude toward nature gradually reversed itself, /In the face of a material trouble’ he now turns to his own mind for an earthly solution before petitioning his deity. : : During the nineteenth /fcentury man convinced himself that sufe ficient knowledge would enable himy to foretell any natural ¢vent with /

Now man is trying to prove that

| this reliability is true even of the

tiniest elementary particles of matter. In 1923, Prof. A. H. Compton proposed a theory having to do with what happens when a photon of light bumps into an electron. He suggested that, upon collision, the