Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1937 — Page 13

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FROM INDIANA

ERNIE PYLE

‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—A fellow who | goes out and campaigns around his |

home town and wins a seat in Congress is a pretty big frog in his own puddle, 1 guess. But he shouldn’t be too haughty about

it. He should take a look at a big book up In the press galleries at the Capitol.

This book has the name and biography of every |

man who has ever served in Congress. There are more than 10,000 of them. Enough | to make a good-sized city. And | there isn't one out of 20 that you | ‘ever heard of. |

It is fun to go through this ‘book. You find the sort of queer things in it that the newspapers | always find in the new phone book and city directory. For instance, I found there has been an Adam Bede in Congress. He was from Minnesota and was a Washington newspaperman before he was selected to the House. He served from 1903 to 1909. Then there was Bill Booze (William Samuel Booze to be exact), who was born in Baltimore, and served in the House from 1897 to '99, and then declined to run again.

And there was James Joyce, and whether he made any more sense than the author of Ulysses I don't know. He was from Ohio, and served only two years, ending in 1911.

And also there was Samuel Hoar. In 1844 the Massachusetts Legislature sent him to South Carolina to test the constitutionality of an ‘act prohibiting free Negroes from entering the state. South Carolinians then, as now, felt capable of minding their own business, so the State Legislature simply passed a law and ran Mr. Hoar out of Charleston.

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2 Joneses Numerous

ONGRESS in its 160 years has been distinguished | 4 by the presence in its chambers of a great raft | of Joneses—six Jims, five Johns, four Georges, four | Williams and one Willie, The man who heads the whole list of 10,000, alpha- | betically, was one Amos Abbott, a Whig from Massachusetts, who served in Congress from 1843 to '49, and | then died in 1868. And the last man. alphabetically, what an exciting time he had of it! His name was John Joachim Zub- | lev. He was born in Switzerland in 1724. He ¢ame over to Georgia, and in 1760 became the first pastor nf a Presbyterian church in Savannah.

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E was a member of the Continental Congress in 1775, and opposed the Declaration of Indepen- | dence. Judge Samuel Chase denounced him as a | traitor, and he resigned. Then he was accused of furnishing information to the royal governor, and was banished from Georgia, | and half of his property confiscated. He lived a | couple of years in South Carolina, then somehow got | back into Georgia and started preaching again, but | he died in 1781.

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Mrs.Roosevelt's Day By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT |

EW YORK, Tuesday.—On my arrival in New i York yesterday, 1 was deeply grieved to hear of | the "death of Mrs. Maud Swartz. She was brought up | in Europe and had a fine education in various coun- | tries which gave her a knowledge of languages that | proved valuable in her work here. On coming to this | country she allied ‘herself with the cause of labor. She worked hard, was a devoted friend, had the | saving grace of humor and a certain balance which | made her judgment and advice valuable on ‘many | occasions. To her family and near friends we want to extend our sympathy. To all those who knew her there will be a real sense of loss. We grieve ‘not only for the loss of a companion, but for the loss to the work to which she devoted her life. When 1 telephoned my husband this morning ne told me of the death of Congressman Buchanan. His

passing is a great loss to the Government as well as |

to his family and friends. Last night Miss Dickerman and T celebrated the Todhunter School's 10th anniversary with the staff. We dined at the Cosmopolitan Club and I had a birthday cake with 10 candles sent up from Washington. We observed the usual birthday rites and blew out the candles together with an unspoken wish for the success of the school. They had suggested a number of plays which they would like to see and we finally chose “High Tor” by Maxwell Anderson with Burgess Meredith and Peggy Ashcroft. I have been to the theater so little this winter and T have not even had vhe opportunity to read ‘many of the criticisms of plays, so T went without any idea of what the play was like. Perhaps this fantasy seemed quite natural to me because I have lived on the Hudson River all my life and have grown up with the

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The Indianapolis Times

Second Section

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

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Ind.

High Tribunal Guardian

BAR CHIEF FIGHTS COURT PLAN

of People’s Rights, Says Stinchfield

(First of a Series of Statements.)

By F. H. STINCHFIELD

President, American Bar Association

YOU have noted the proposal. i For you are one of the 130,000,000 Americans

Be sure vou are clear on

whose rights Congress is told to give away. You and Americans before you have had these rights

for 150 years.

Your ancestors didn’t give them up; if

your children haven't them, it will be because you have surrendered them. This isewhat is to be done, from your

standpoint : proposed law. plain.

The Court is to be changed by the How?

Let’s see if it isn’t perfectly

There are nine members of the Supreme Court. Six more men will be chosen by the President. When asked to decide, at least three of the present nine justices have, almost every time, upheld these

new laws.

Add the six justices to be chosen.

You

have nine, more than a majority. Some of the present nine might resign if the law is passed; they would feel that the Court's power had forever gone, surrendered to the President.

Mr. Stinchfield

For the Court to act merely as the mouthpiece of the executive would destroy every chance to per-

form its duties independently, the only way in which patriotic, sincere

judges could act.

made a new wing of the White House.

ernment would have disappeared. Let's see what is proposed. NRA was said by the Supreme Court tc be unconstitutional; that is, NRA wasn't a law at all because it violated certain of your rights; that you and the state where you live hadn't given Congress the power to pass any such law. ”

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HE rights destroyed by that act are still yours; yours personally, and your state's. Congress was ready to, and tried to surrender your rights, reserved in the Constitution. The Supreme Court forbade the destruction. of your rights. Only vou could do that, and you hadn't been given a chance to agree. Regarding perhaps a dozen more laws, Congress again was told to repair its ways and not to be so free with your rights. Your protection on each occasion was the Supreme Court, sometimes by a bare majority. Now, what is said to Congress? This: “What yoti've tried to do these many times, you can do after this with complete freedom—if you will pass a law giving the President the power by appointment oi additional judges. These new judges will change a minority of the Supreme Court to a majority. Presto! The ‘Constitution isn't what it used to be, and you, Congress, can cease thinking about it. The teacher who told vou to be quiet will now say, ‘Let's go." ” You, the voter, may want it so. No one knows. We have no way of finding out whether or not vou like the Constitution, and the

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government

The new Supreme Court Building had as well be

The third branch of our gov-

rights under it which you didn't give up. But we would rather you told us than have Congress tell vou what you would say, if vou had a chance to speak. Some of us don't like gossip or hearsay, anyhow. We want to hear you tell us your story. The about you doesn’t satisfy us. un un " OW, the strange thing about all this is that you aren't asked to speak. Why not? I'm inclined to believe it's because vou'll say, “No”; that you guess is powerful enough already, and that what powers vou have kept to date you think you'd better keep a while longer. But it is odd, isn't it, that you aren't asked? The Constitution is clear enough on that matter. It

| provides, in a separate article all

its own, how it can be amended, what should be dorie when a government, greedy for more power, wants you to surrender the rights vou didn’t choose to give up when

you agreed to the Constitution.

The Constitution says with reference to tne method generally used, perhaps a score of times, that to amend the Constitution both branches of Congress must make the exact proposal by a two-thirds vote and then have three-fourths of the states ratify what ‘Congress did. You might have said originally that vou wouldn't give up any more of your rights under any

| circumstances; that you agreed to

surrender part of your personal rights only because it seemed necessary in order to establish the

word of Congress |

In the magnificent new $11,000,000 building where these unusual pictures were made sits the U. S. Supreme Court, whose reorganization is now being hotly debated throughout the country. At upper left is the impressive pediment of the main entrance fo the building. Entering, the visitor is escorted by uniformed guards into the central lobby, whose ceiling is a dream of architectural decoration. Then perhaps, he will see the justices themselves behind the polished and ‘carved wooden bench in the court-

Federal vou'd rights. that

rights if and

agreed.

Government, and that never vield any further But vou did in fact say

. n vou would give up more

ELL, shouldn't you now be

WEATHER BALLOONS OUST DARING YOUNG MEN IN FLYING MACHINES

heard whe is to be taken consulting the s mere majority,

(Copyright, 1937, bv Science Service)

OSTON, Mass. Feb. 24. —Because |

into the discard here.

East Boston airport is one of the throughout the country where |

disturbs people's slumbers, | one more job for heroes is hastening

airmen go up each morning before | dawn to bring down reports for the |

U. S. Weather Bureau. Bostonians, once thrilled by their daring, now

“go up in the air,” too, at the com- |

motion.

you on a matter personal

anyone to tell vy

that he knows better than you do

what's good for even change the enough of you wi

after Congress can speak for you absolutely every-

in everything,

two-thirds three-fourths of

”

vou willing that Congress, without

the same thing that would happen if the Constitution were amended in the regular way? a man, or a set of men, to talk for

business, volving your very liberty? I shouldn't think you'd wish

room, lower left. The justices have entered the building through the subterranean auto entrance shown at lower right, Many visitors do not see one of the architectural marvels of the building, the staircase shown in the center, which spirals upward without any underpinning whatever, for each step is a marble slab set in the wall and overlapping the one beneath. Visitors, always eager to see the architectural marvels of the building, have multiplied in number since the Court became a center of attention,

thing. But you're the one to say that first, in the manner you declare you choose to speak. We'll all take a chance with you after you have said that, but let's hear the sound of your voice, not that of a Congressional ventriloquist speaking for you. We prefer to look at you, too, when you are moving under your own power, not as a dummy perched on a Congressman's knee, You understand I have no official standing, of either govern= ment or any association, in talk=ing to you. I speak only for myself, I trust that you will still listen without looking for an official badge. Sometimes officials aren't so friendly to you as the people you see every day near home or at work. (Copyright. 1937. NEA Bervice, Inc.)

NEXT—Robert H. Jackson, Assistant United States Attorney General,

of Congress the states

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n what you kept from vou? Are

tates, and by a accomplish just Do you like that’s your own perhaps inou to keep still, vou. You can

Constitution, if sh, so that here-

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Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

I HAD occasion, once upon a time, to talk with Dean Kirchwey when he was wars den of Sing Sing. He told me a mumber of interesting things, 1 remember, and 1 distinctly recall

his views about bad little boys who have a gift for swearing. Fact is, he considered it a healthy sign of some= thing or other, and I take this, my first opportunity, of transmitting the Dean's glad message to a troubled little mother in Indianapolis who has worried herself sick over her little boy's bad behavior. She has done everything she knows to set her little boy straight —consulted teachers, doctors and psychoanalysts—but for some reason his language continues as picturesque as ever. What annoys this mother as much as anything is the fact that other mothers in Indianapolis have organized against her little boy. For exampla, they don't think anything of sending him home when things get out of hand.

The boy's record to date is that he has never been able to see a children's party through from start te finish. Well, the other day, he got another invitation. Tt proved to be a very important party—possibly even more important for the mother than for the boy-—= and she did her level best to impress the youngster with the fact. He promised to behave, crossed his heart and hoped to die if he let her down this time. He set forth triumphantly, so the storv runs. In less than 15 minutes he was back. His mother broke down completely and, between sobs, asked him what had happened. “Nothing,” he said, “the damn party was yesterday,

Mr. Scherrer

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Has Machine Gone Far Enough?

ALKING around this town the way I do, I meet a lot of people spreading the doctrine that the Machine has gone too far. Shucks! The Machine hasn't gone far enough to suit me Take my grocer, for example. He sold me a mae chine-canned gumbo the other day and guaranteed it to be the most authentic thing this side of New Orleans. It wasn't anything of the sort. I had te season it with green pepper, onions and rice before it started approximating the real thing. It’s that way all along the line. A green turtle soup I know needs a slice of lemon after I've opened the can: a mixed vegetable compound isn't worth digging into until I've added celery and a couple of scallions, and a canned goulash cracked up to be the dernier cri of the Machine Age isn't worth taking home unless you have a lot of sour cream and paprika on hand. I could go on indefinitely like this. What this creaking civilization needs is a ‘machine that finishes

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Surrealism Has Gone Far Enough

AM ‘expected to accept the new surrealistic gowns now on view in the show windows as some more evidence of a painter's subconscious experience of a private dream, and it occurs to me to ask whether this sort of thing hasn't gone far enough Personally, TI don’t like to listen to dreams, much Tess look at them, no matter how well authenticated they ‘may be. Anyway, 1 have always wondered whether an artist profits by actual experience, the way the surrealists would have us believe. Take Herman Melville and Jonah, for example. Melville never got within a hundred vards of a live whale and wrote the best fish story ever written. Jonah wrote the worst. For a man on the inside, Jonah was a flop.

A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

* HIS note is written by a peddler, now an old man,” says a letter from Pittsburgh. “I have just read your article referring to peddlers Myself and many others gave not only merchandise to the people, their friends, when they called upon them, but joy and kindness and on occasion little presents from their packs. “They also gave to this good country, by example, the art of selling, for from the peddler, later, came the drummer and then the salesman, some of whom laid the foundations for the modern department store. Why not, in your good honest way, say a word for the peddler who has taught folks how to buy?” Bless his heart. So I will. For the old-time ped= dler as well as the modernized version deserves ib,

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legend of Hendrik Hudson's men playing howls in the Catskill Mountains whenever we had a thunder storm. I have a special affection for the Palisades and all the spots up and down this river, and 1 have RIWavs | which group will first perfect a robot | resented the inroads made by human beings on the re 4 : sporter, beauties of nature. | Radio ‘meteorographs, sent aloft After all, the creatures of our imagination are more |. balloon. have been used abroad real to us than many actual things which exist. There | 4, several vears. but the foreign are wonders all about us no less fantastic than the |u qels are too expensive to comhunting of High Tor by the ship's crew. Throughou, pete with nirplane reports in this the play the humor and phiibsophiy go hand in hand | COUNLFY nid alsh do ‘hot ‘meet U. 8 so well that T spent a pleasant and amusing evening. |. io restrictions Beda Oh for more people like Van Van Dorn! At Blue Hill Observatory where We have spent the morning in our little apartment Dr. Charles F Brooks is director A telephoning and catching up on mail. The ‘usual E Bont It "devised a tin five price one pays for playing hookey! Tt is a peaceful, v nh a t E itt 4 Dr calm place to work and I enjoy it more than I can sav. Be a ype vd WH : In a few minutes a young friend of mine will come Karl 'O. Lange a woy- yr Ce: to lunch with us, and then we must be off to New graph ‘which promises reliability at Haven where I make a speech this evening. h COS, Which Wl HEN apne competition. The transmitter fits

intc a balsam-wood case and the meteorograph, on top of it, is protected by a semicylindrical metal cover. The whole thing measures orfly 8%:x53%Xx4 inches, and weighs | exactly one pound. The meteorograph uses the Olland | principle of rotating contacts. Tt is | based on an upright metal cylinder | hardly larger than a match, on | |

Tt is true that the men who carried packs upon their backs brought joy and kindness into remote neigh= borhoods such as ours was. Besides which, they alwavs had something more fine than merchandise te give us. They fetched gossip from beyond the hills which cupped around us Thev had been to faraway places, and the little bovs and girls looking at them marveled to think of all the sights their eves had seen. Sometimes one of them would stay the night at oiir house, and then what tales would be heard! Pos litical doings of the neighbor states, the foolish customs of city folk, particulars of the goings-on in other towns, and intimate details of the lives of men and women whom we did not know and never were te know except as they were described to us by the wit and wisdom of the peddler. The old type of selling men walked alone over the earth, lived humbly and at peace with their fellows, and seemed to possess more tolerance and love for the erring than other men. Some of the most interesting moments of my life have been spent in the company of peddlers. Theirs is a calling which seems to develop philosophy. And the modern ones, 1 find, have just about the sama fund of humor and good sense and the same knowl= edge of human nature that was so noticeable in tha

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Sullivan Says Court Plan ~ Has Link With Revolution

By MARK SULLIVAN Times Special Writer JASHINGTON, Feb. 24—The|ing is still in process, courts are | somber significance of Pres- | constantly modifying the pattern. ident Roosevelt's court proposal ‘ies | Ever keeping the fabric wkiole, never in its relation to the mew concep- | making a break, they nevertheless tion of society now fermenting move gradually from the old prec throughout the world. Tt lies in the |edents to the new conditions. ‘Often parallel between what is attempted | they introduce entirely new strands. here and what has been done in| But in it all, the essential and those countries in which the new | precious quality is continuity. conception has established itself. This the new conception of so= The new conception hates courts. | ciety hates. For the direct purpose It hates courts for the obvious | of revolution is to destroy the old reason that courts protect the ‘citi- | fabric utterly, to tear up the old zen against the government. In any pattern and impose a new one. The controversy between the citizen and | process is one of destroying the old, | the government, courts in America thereby bringing ferment and and Britain hold the balance even | welter and chaos, and then shaping between the two; to the courts, the | the fragments and shards into the citizen and the state are equal. | new pattern that is desired. Courts uphold the rights of the citi- Consequently, in the technique of = ss sa zens. revolution, a primary sirategy is to This the new conception sannot | gestroy precedents, to destroy in= (endure, because to it the citizen has | gesd the very idea of proceeding | our ea | no rights that the state need respect. | {hrough precedent. The essence of | [Te “authoritarian state” Lg revolution of the modern We is to | By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN upon unlimited power of compul- he people away from old ways | W | Sho upon the individual. To it, the | get ap away from accepted | ; le American Medical Assn, Journal courts, so far as they are permitted | principles, away from tradition, LEVEN to 14 days usually elapse between the time to exist, must be mere agencies | away from those things for which | when a child is exposed to measles and when it through which the state exerts its the people have old affection. | mctually comes down with the disease. Seldom 1s the power upon the individual. The | > % 2 incubation period as short as three days. |'courts must be as submissive as/|_ HE aim of revohition is to make The disease is highly contagious when the patient heard in a good loud “clump.” every other institution or person a sharp break with the past. begins coughing and sneezing, which may occur bes

: | within the state. . fore appearance of the eruption, wohmper hy Aig po ‘ns pl SR | Besides that obvious motive, the In that aim, those who bring about As a child begins to come down with measles, he ularly as Clockwork” The three SRE i | fiew conception hates courts for an- | revolutions, as part of their earliest | yo. “gig of all, the symptoms of a severe cold, tne other arms move higher or lower &c- | other reason. Tt hates courts be- | tactics, set their faces savagely | on.qine moistening of the eyes, sensitivity to light, cording to tin mechanisms measur- | cause courts are the custodians of | Against old symbols of every Kind. | ghaeing and discharges from the nose. There may ing temperature, air pressure and | precedent, and therefore of continy- | These they tear we. ang Xen oe be a hoarse, hard cough and some soreness of the humidity, and the variation in the ity, and the destruction of continu- | Up Mew ones. In a lb | throat. time-interval between the “clumps” |jty with the old is necessarily the EE a Md ig ot Ue. eyen isa SONIC Neti: 1 : h he appearance of lit a TV We po a a Th Britis, the and sickle. The church and all ots on Vhs Hracou hs of the cheeks and Besides coming through audibly, achievement of liberty through law | that went with it, its Ey lips, and on the palate. the radio signals are recorded on a has been a process which, as Tenny- | associations, were ruthlessly r Three or four days after running nose and slight moving plate by an ingenious ar- son put it, “slowly broadens down |UD and destroyed. fever appear, a rash breaks out on the face, mouth, rangement of typewriter ribbon and Shae | from precedent to precedent.” The | S0 With us, the attack upon the | gang ohin, and then spreads over the trunk, arms, moving pointer which results in a he aX Haas | courts use precedents as the record | Courts has of course the fundamen- | ghiohs and legs. The victim is likely to be sicker time base-line and ‘three graphs Zi ii ERS A 5 |and guide to principles and usage, | al =in part consciously, | while the rash is coming out than at any other stage analogous to the routes traced by - — | which they extend and adapt to new | Part instinctively—of depriving the| of the disease. He may also have lack of appetite, the three fluctuating arms on the ~Belehce Bervice Photo. | conditions as they arise. courts of their share of power, 50 85 | gpated tongue, some looseness of the bowels, and revolving cylinder of the machine Shown above ix (he | "a to bring about the lodging of all} gimilar disturbances. aloft. | Overy Wwe new launching machine used at the Brae Hill HE framework of society, as we power ultimately at one point, as in The secondary complications which affect the Radio meteorographs are prefer- | rector Sy a University where Dr. Charles ¥., Brooks, di- | think of it, is a kind of fabric— | the totalitarian state everywhere.| juyngs are far more serious than measles itself, and lable to aviator-reporters because hs to tr p N . he have heen sending alofy radio meteoro- a fabric which is constantly in| But the attack has also the purpose | every possible attempt must be made to guard against | they go higher, report quicker and | Soph amsmit high altitude weather back to their yecording n- | process of weaving, ever in the of discrediting a symbol, one for| such complications, are never kept grounded by bad struments. loom. The completed part of the which there has been respect and | When a child has measles he should be placed And when the balloons | fabric consists of precedents, and loyalty and faith. Tn the new con- | alone fn a room and other children should wot be eventually burst, it's a tiny “pop” so | the patterns of principle which ception of society there must be only | permitted to come in contact with him. In Uhis 1s high up that it couldn't disturb even ome object of respect, only one | gard, barents owe an absolute duty to the a J source of authority, of neighbors and friends,

ase precedents form. [FETE "Bit on the edge where the weary

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— ITH a mind in revolt against the futility of ‘war, Sherston has publicly declared a separate peace with his enemies. He is sent to a military hospital, “a live museum of war neuroses,” filled with officers now mental cases because of their war experiences. At Slateford Military Hospital pegins SHERSTON'S PROGRESS (Doubleday), third volume of Siegfried Sassoon’s trilogy beginning with “Memoirs of 8 Foxhunting Man,” followed by “Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.” At Slateford, Sherston is helped back to normalcy bv Dr. Rivers, an R. A. M. C. captain, who is both father confessor and healer. Sherston becomes afraid that his desire for a “separate peace” has been inspired by the instinct for personal survival and derermines to go back to the front as his only way of personal peace. Thus Sherston goes back by way of Ireland, Egypt, and Palestine, to French trenches, where he concludas one lonely evening, “One ‘cannot be a useful officer and a reader of imaginative literature at the same time.” When he is at last returned to England, we find among the final words of his “progress” that if war is to remain a social institution, our children “must not be allowed to ask why they are doing it.”

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HOSE who enjoyed Mrs. Winthrop Chanler’s T “Roman Spring” will get a great deal of pleasure from the second volume of ‘her autobiography, AUTUMN IN THE VALLEY (Little, Brown), The first book covered her early life and young girlhood, while this one brings her to the present. She is a rather remarkable person, who seems to | have known almost everyone; a person of great vitality, whe still rides horseback aithough she is over 70. Having lived a very full life, she now seems to be enjoying thoroughly her autumn among a large group of children and grandchildren. - Mrs. Chanler’s | weather, descriptions of people and places she has known are well done, and she has a quiet humor which is de-

lightful,

—Bcience Service Photo.

Here is the robot weatherman who goes aloft to 60,000 feet and radios back to earth-bound scientists the vital information on which forecasts for aviation and commerce can be made. Margaret Wendt of the National Burean of Standards in Washington holds the cover box opened to show the tiny three-tube radio transmitter, while below is the barometrically-controlled commutator unit which switches the signals from temperature to humidity data alternately. The entire unit weighs less than two pounds, and th teorograph operates entirely without external power, hfe Wave

which is an infinitesimal platinum | ‘helix, The cylinder revolves by a clock | { mechanism and four small horizon- | tal silver arms touch it at four dif-! ferent heights. Every time the helix | passes under an arm it closes an | electric current which sends out a | radio signal which, received and | amplified at the ground station, is

usually bear such equipment wpwarg a “opiling” reached when one of them bursts, ny I wi incapable