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, are Japanese. They may be serfs, as some iia a om SY Bom bodies 5 “Blase ' « people charge, but at least they don’t work i! Thirfie Natigey de ge Taste:

8ny harder than some farmers in Indiana. i i gas gts Statue Causes Not an Eye to Blink.

“They wear bibless blue overalls, and their pants gre tied with string at their shoe tops, and again just pais TY Nee Ss Smad oa ls | WAY formative years; I.don’t mind,saying,. were spent in that glorious “decade

below their knees. What’s that for? Why, to keep out the spiders, of course. ; = y ] Elec Huge spiders, big as the palm of sometimes referred fo reverently as the Elecyour. hand, crawl over the ground tric ‘Nineties, or the Moulting Nineties, the. where the cane has been-cut. There adj ective depending on whether the philoso-: pher ‘Mencken, or the poet Ise Gallienne, or: Prof. Whittlesey is doing the, talking, CL pat _At any rate, it was the ‘périod ‘when ‘May Irwin crooned her first coon songs,’ and Reginald ide Koven composed something about: “brown - eh ; October ale”; when we went to Augustin Daly’s playhouse, or Weber . ‘and Fields, of the Haymarket, the

choice of place depending more or = less on the kind of girl we had with

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‘By Science Service— : : : NEW experiments, that are the outgrowth of the research for which the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics, was § awarded, were revealed today to have.important significance for industry in studying the little-known but vital facts of lubrication.’ : In a report today to the American Physical Society meetings in conjunction with American Association for the Advancement of Science convention, Dr. L. H. Germer | of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York City, de~ scribed his researches which investigated the nature: of. very thin films only a single molecule thick. | { Dr. Germer was the colleague of Dr. C. J. Davisson in the epoch-making experiments on the diffraction of elec‘trons for which Dr. Davisson—jointly with Prof. G. P. Thomson of England—was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize. Dr. Germer’s current work, reported jointly. with K. : H. Storks, describes the bombardment of films of ste» Si | eta Ergin Hg acid with swift electrons and an analysis of the resulting ; WN. | sway withit

. ~b¥ Then Gelett Burgess wrote “The - diffraction patterns. Purple Cow,” and lived to regret it;

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are centipedes and scorpions, too, they say, but I didn’t see any. One ‘spider got up my pants leg (which wasn’t tied) and although he didn’t bite me I sure did the Big Apple for : a few seconds.

Then something ran across the Hath ' field a few feet ahead of us. The “Mr. Pyle plantation man grabbed a cane : / stalk and ran after it, slammed at _ it, finally killed it. The thing was gray, and about ‘twige as big as a mouse. I asked if it were a rat He ,- Said yes. ; -* © “There are rats in the cane fields by the millions. ‘There are four species. This was the smallest one. - The biggest, he said, is as big as a cat. “On the Island of Hawaii, where they are worst,

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pe go two million dollars damage a year to the cane, e said. : _“iAnd here's another funny thing. The cang fields’ , are full of mongooses. I always thought a mbngoose _* was found only in India, but it seems ebody ws brought a bunch of mongooses over here, {inking 7 they kill the rats. Instead, they all fell in love

oF #nd now the plantation fields are infested with a half-

rat half-mongoose affair, retaining the worst features

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It's Dangerous Job, Too

“Cane requires lots of water, but at harvesting time the fields are dry. They are mostly on rolling ground,

2“Cutting cane is dangerous work. Not so much that . you cut yourself, but cane shoots and chaff are always ‘ getting in your eyes. Eye injuries lead the plantation's accident list, and cause more lost time than anything else. They've tried out all kinds of glasses and goggles and hats and shades, but nothing seems to work. : ~~ Here’s something you probably didn’t know about

cane they set fire to it and burn the whole field over. Here's why: “About 20 years ago a field was burned the night before harvesting. Some say it was a careless match; _ others say it was deliberate, caused by labor trouble. \t any rate the plantation had a burned field of cane, but decided to cut iti anyway and salvage what they

could. - Ang lo and behold, the cane went through the mill easier, and actually turned out more sugar, than it ever had before. From that day to this, every cane feld in Hawaii has been burned over the day before harvesting.

. My Diary 4 By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Treasured Hours With Loved Ones May Be Lived Again ir Thoughts.

Jo a MISSOULA, "Mont ON BOARD NORTHERN PA: «2 XY

4 CIFIC TRAIN, Tuesday. —Crossiag this conti“ment in winter is an uncertain: business if you want i. to waste as little time as possible. By & o’clock yester-

. day afternoon, it was evident that I could not leave

_ Beattle by plane. After much discussion, it was decided that my best chance of being picked up somewhere on the way by plane, lay in a combination of the : Northern Pacific Railroad and the Northwestern Aires lines. At 9:15 in the evening I boarded the train and ¢ pecause of unfavorable weather conditions we are go--ing on our way rather cautiously. I am praying for clearing skies and a chance to fly tonight. In spite of all the uncertainties, I look back on my four days in Seattle with thankfulness. If you love people very much and are of necessity separated for Jong periods of time, you treasure up the hours spent - together and live them over and over again in your thoughts. : The landscape looks rather bleak. There is not © enough snow to be beautiful, but evidently enough to & make it slippery, for the automobiles are crawling : BE.

‘Breakfast Is Delightful |

My breakfast was excellent, good coffee, which is not always to be had when traveling, and rolls which * ‘were delightful. What more could anyone ask?" | ~ +... I am reading for the first time, in 3 leisurely and thorough manner, the installments of Ludwig’s Biography of the President, which have already come out in a magazine. There are inaccuracies, of course, but it is both readable and very interesting to me, largely - Because the author is so completely steeped in European tradition. : I like the photographs. The book should give ample opportunity for interesting interpretations of: events and characters from Mr. Ludwig's own particular slant. .This should be illuminating and instructive to the people whom he analyzes. We so rarely succeed in knowing ourselves as others know us and it is a rare opportunity to know ourselves as Mr.

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“When a number of molecular layers of this acid were placed on a metal surface it was found that the

long molecules were inclined at an angle. Significant, however, was the finding that the first.lay- - er of these molecules stood up at straight right angles to the plane of the metal surface even though subsequent layers were inclined.

“These experiments,” said Dr. Germer, “seems to us to be significant in two ways; in the first place, they reveal the arrangement and structure of or-. molecules upon surfaces, in the second place, we believe that they reveal chemical combination between a: surface and the first layer of acid molecules. These particular results have interesting bearing upon theories of lubrication, in particular the nature of ‘oiliness’ and boundary lubrication.” The current Nobel awards to Dr. Davisson and Prof. Thomson were made for electron diffraction experiments which showed, at first, only matters of theoretical significance; that material particles of matter (the electrons) ‘could exhibit the properties associated with waves under the proper conditions. The experiments of Drs. Davisson and Germer, and of Prof. Thomson were made independently and formed the clinching evidence on which is built up the theory of wave mechanics that is now used widely to interpret the structure and behavior of matter. 1t is a tribute to the broadness of at potential

‘work are now becoming apparent. # # ® .

Syphilis Prevention : PEEvENTION of the pitiful affliction of syphilis in unborn infants by making blood tests routinely on all expectant mothers “was urged by Drs. Alfred C. Beck and William T. Daily of the Long Island College of Medicine, Brooklyn, N. Y. When the mother is properly treated for syphilis during the months before the child is born, a living, healthy child will

The germ which causes the disease gets into the unborn baby’s body from the mother’s body. During the early part of the infant’s’ life in its mother’s body it

ing membranes which act, the Brooklyn physicians believe, as a barrier against the germ. Later this barrier breaks down and unless the mother is treated for syphilis the unborn child is sure to contract the disease. This may lead to its being born dead or to its being born with the disease. The mother usually has syphilis in a much milder form during the child-bearing months, it was pointed out. Because of this, the disease may not be detected unless blood tests -are made. Having a ‘child, in fact, appears to protect the mother from the worst rav-

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be born in 90 per cent of the cases. ¢

ages of the disease. Drs. Beck and Daily suggested that certain regular changes in women’s Ss organs, which also take place g the first months of child-bearing may produce the factor that protects the mother against the disease. B® # ” ®

Havoc of Disease

VER one-fourth of all chil“dren born with syphilis: have involvement of- the nervous system—brain, spinal cord or nerves or all three, Dr. Charles C. Dennie of the University of Kansas Medical School reported. He studied some 1200 cases of congenital syphilis, that is; cases in which the disease was implanted .

" in the brain and spinal cord at

birth or sometime during childhood or adolescence. Many of these children are in institutions for the feebleminded. Dr. Dennie described them as “simply motivated lumps of flesh without conscious volition of their own.” Their degree of mniental deficiency shades upward from idiocy to dull wittedness. For the ones who have paresis or softening of the brain, there is no hope. Even with the most modern forms of treatment, only a few of them improve. Most of them gradually degenerate into a state of imbecility, followed by death. In some cases of nerve syphilis the power locomotion is affected. The condition is often wrongly diagnosed as birth injury or as infantile paralysis. A certain type of paralysis seen in these cases can be corrected by medical treatment without any operation. Any child with paralysis. of arm, side should have a:thorou : a. physician;

large number of them do have syphilis. s 2 5

‘Radius of Action’

HE existence of all matter in the world is possible only because there exists an attractive

+ force within atoms that acts only

through a distance of less than a million - millionth of an inch. This estimate of the “radius of action” of this.fundamental force of nature was presented here to-

Career Diplomats and Nonprofessionals For Positions in Berlin and Moscow

is somewhat protected by cover-. |

By Raymond Clapper Times Svecial Writer ASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (U. P.). —A diplomatic struggle is going on backstage between career diplomats ‘and the nonprofessionals over several important pests which are involved in the shifting of ambassadors now being worked out. William E. Dodd, because of his intense and scarcely concealed dislike of the Hitler regime, became practically persona non grata as American Ambassador at Berlin and resigned. Although it was desired in some quarters to shift Ambassador Joseph E. Davies from Moscow to Berlin, the argument was made that because of the difficult situation created under Mr. Dodd, a smooth professional gareer diplo-

| mat ought to be sent¥in. One of

the ablest of the group, Hugh: Wil-

Side Glances—By Clark

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Prof. C. O. Lee of the Purdue University School of Pharmacy shows a new calomel. ointment recently 5 developed at the University of Pennsylvania to Prof. W. E. Edington of DePauw University (right) and

day by Prof. Gregory Breit of the

University of Wisconsin in an ad- ° dress before the American Physi-

cal Society. Prof. Breit—who has ‘been a leading analyst of the theoretical and mathematical implications of - this basic force binding atomic particles into the nuclei of atoms, and hence makes possible all. matter — reviewed the present knowledge - of - Duglear structure. He reported on’ new measure= ments at the Pniversity of Wiseonsin which ®, give additional check on the small magnitude of the distance through which acts the binding force within atoms. Quantitative experiments by Prof. R. G. Herb and his colleagues with the high-voltage, pressure-tank electrostatic accelerator at Madison have extended studies of atomic particles (protons scattered by protons) to. en-

ergy ranges of 2,400,000 volts, said

Prof. Breit. These measurements extend to a new range of energy, the pi-

. oneering work of Drs. M. A. Tuve. .

and N..P. Heydenburg and.L..

- "Hafstad of the Carnegi€ Ins tu--Dennie - emphasized, because & aso

tion of Washington on such pro-ton-proton scattering. - .: . The much higher voltage of acceleration ‘employed by Dr. Herb’s research group at Wisconsin, said Prof." Breit, has been possible by the operation of the apparatus within a pressure tank. This tank prevents electrical sparkover and similar losses, and {permits much more effective op= eration. Moreover, the unit is very compact for this type of equipment. ; (Copyright, 1937, by Science Service)

son, now an Assistant Secretary of State, was favored to go to Berlin. Because of State Department? in-

sistence, the appointment probably

will be made. ” ” ” N. some spots there are contacts and associations which are better developed by a nonprofessional businessman than by a technicolor career man. Every embassy and legation has its staff of experts who carry on the routine work and provide the technical aid and guidance which are necessary. But at London, for instance, a man of the position of the late Ambassador Bingham could mingle with important British figures on terms much more*informal and intimate than a professional foreign service official could. : -He was on intimate terms. with

--|A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson AM in complete sympathy with

any agitation for better pay for | Higher wage:

domestic workers. scales help general economic conditions, and I am convinced ‘that

John R. Loofbourow, Institutum Divi Thomae staff member. Prof. Lee is in charge of the American Pharmaceutical Association exhibit at the American Association for Advancement of Science sessions.

Times: i"hiotos.

Miss Ruth Culbertson, Highland College physics instructor, spends

her holiday looking into a microscope.

She is ‘shown here’ ex:imining

tissue cultures at one of the convention exhibits. Dr. A. Cueto, director,

is looking on.

important figures in British public and private life and it was through these contacts that he did more

than the record will ever show to.

push forward the reciprocal trade idea which the British approached with some coolness. : The same is true of Mr. Davies. While some career diplomats have been sniping at him, the White House is in his corner. Mr. Davies. wants to leave Moscow and arrangements are being made to send

him to a post which will be more.

satisfactory. » 8 2s 5 URING the first few months,

while Soviet officials were still

maintaining social : contact - with foreign diplomats, Mr. Davies made considerable headway in improving relations. However, the post is not

Struggle '

‘congenial to Mr. Davies, Tertly. be-

cause ‘later Soviet officials sharply

discouraged contact with foreigners

and partly because Mri. Davies found the Moscow climate too ‘severe. There was little for Mr. Davies to do “in Moscow; as the official work of the embassy is carried on by an exceptionally capsiile tech nical staff. Mr. Davies mide a: tour of surrouriding European countries and this work is regarded “by. the

‘White House as having heen: more ‘valuable than anything he could | have accomplished at Moscow.

With the Moscow Vacancy. in

1 sight, several names have: been ad-

vanced, including those of Curtis Bok, a left-wing supporter of Roosevelt, and Charles E. Stuart, consulting engineer who has handled a

‘number of mining enterprises -for

the Soviet Government.

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By Frank Owen

Mr. Dooley formulated an Amer- py Scherrer ican philosophy in fewer and short- : er words than Lewis Mumford is doing now; Charles Dana Gibson was, directing our taste ‘for feminine. pulchritude; Jim Corbett was a real-for-sure White Hope, and Li Hung.Chang, a wise-cracking Chinaman; Dr. Parkhurst was crusading and denouncing vice every Sunday, and Stanford White was desighing his ehurch—the period, too, when women went around in > o'mutton sleeves and copious, trailing skirts. I don’t know whether the women’s way of dressing had anything to do with it or not, but I rather suspect that if the women had been brought up _ differently maybe Frederick MacMonnies wouldn’t have had his bitter experience with the Boston

for the Boston Bacchante, nobody would ever have “dreamed of referring to my formative years as the Naughty Nineties. :

*Twas a Naughty Sight

As near as I recall, Mr. MacMonnies’ Bacchante was McKim, Mead and White's gift to the Boston Library. They were the architects, you remember, and when it came time to decorate the magnificent courtyard back of the staircase, they dug into their own pockets and told Mr. MacMonnies that now, if ever, was ‘the time to deliver. Money was no object; they said. ay tae I don’t know whether Stanford White had anything to do with the choice of subject, or whether Mr. MacMonnies had carte blanche, but. when the statue was unveiled, it turned ‘out to be a woman without & stitch of clothing: Rho #3; It was even worse thdn that. It proved to be a drunken reveller holding the cutest baby you. ever saw. The baby was nhgked.: too, and to complicate matters still more, was shown in the act of reaching for a bunch of grapes in the hands of the Bacchanalian reveller. . AE A 5 Some people went so far as to say it was the baby’s mother. ha y, : Well, this was too much, not only for: Boston but ‘for the provinces, too, and before anybody knew it, there was such a hullabaloo about ‘the shameless mother and her baby that McKim, Mead and White were forced to remove the statue. They gave it to the Metropolitan Museum, _For-alf I know, t30, tiie ‘ediirtyard of the. Boston Library is still without'a statue. ~~ ~~“ § °° ‘My only reason for going into this so thoroughly today is because I just learned that last week Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge presented the Herron Art Institute with a magnificent copy of the Boston Bacchante. I'm: told that the directors accepted it without batting an eye. : :

Jane Jordan— Logic, Rather Than Evasion, Is Best ‘Way to: Attack ‘Smoking, Drinking. EAR JANE JORDAN—Our sociology professor had * been lecturing on the subject of “Social Tendencies.” After class I asked him ‘about the tendency now of young women fo smoke and drink. | He looked at me seriously and said, “Remember, Miss

inine refinement she has but little left that society genuinely values.” That was all He: said. Like all educated people he is” subtle in" his. remarks. * But he is about the wisest person I ever'haye, encountered.

Do you think older people are fogies? - - i

Answer—Your sociclogy professor out-foxed you. He replied to your question with a glittering generality which answerea nothing. He is a teachersand cannot afford to admit facts which a’great many people do not wish to admit. Had he ‘said: “Yes, there is a social tendency to condone smoking ‘and drinking by .women,” many people: would have interpreted this objective statement as an enthusiastic approval of the tendeucy. Some would have it that

and a few would go so far as to say he actually originated the tendency. ee? : However, wishes are not facts. The fact is that women of refinement do smoke and drink whether we like it or not—not to excess to be sure. It is a social change which a gfeal many people have accepted without shock. Parents who do not wish their daughters to smoke . have every r:ight to influence

" them not to do so, but it is futile for them: to say it

is not done by women of: “natural feminine refine-

Bacchante. Ill even go farther’and say that, except

M., when a young Woman discards her natural fem-.

he was encouraging the young to go fo the dogs

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| ment” for sooner or later the girl will see a woman, who answers this description smoke, and the parents’ argument will lose its force. In other words, we cannot fight facts with falsehoods or wish a . social tendency out of existence. SEEN Ee It is better for parents to put their objections on g : grounds of personal distaste. No girl who loves and hs } ; hi Wk P 34 respects her parents will offend. them by smoking in Sisver cai be ae Uy puiating o¥t TS a2.) a teks presence 3£°she itiows is esuese” thom, distros er are Jd Nee dpmestie health: even though some smokers live a long time. pSen use Either of these two reasons are a better argument | against smoking:than the statement that women of | refinement do not smbke—for that simply isn’t true. ‘Certainly no grawing young person should smoke or drink. No adult should smoke or drink to excess. .-In answer to your question ‘‘do;you think older | people are fogies?”: Some are and some arent. % : 8 8. : in

DEAR JANE JORDAN—Sometime ago I started

financial power have had in shaping the economic “ fife, the politics, the foreign policies, and the thought $8 and opinion of the ons of lesser American citizens. .. Ferdinand Lundberg is concerned with such fam- { _ iltes as the Morgans, the du Ponts, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, the Mellons and the Lamonts. His = pl is to show how men who possess or control great wealth have used their power to further their ‘ “pwn ends, regardless of the well-being of the country ‘at large. He shows their relations to the major polit- _- deal parties and to -public officials, their: influence through ownership or control of the press, the power | - - which they exert through their philanthropic founda- | gions, their hand in the formation of educational pol- / Heies and the methods by which through the . great web of closely allied interests they reach out to “every of the nation’s life. ~~ hk + Much of the information set forth here has been _ Printed before. This volume is unique because of its ..* comprehensiveness.

more money for household * employees would benefit. ‘the mistress as ‘well as the maid. . © However, when this topic is discussed openly, you will. get loud protests from those women who are forever complaining about the in-|. competence of their hel

their pay is so poor and that their pay is so poor because the standards of their trade are so low and —but why go on?" : The only thing we can: do about | it is to raise the general wage scale | and so enable the employer to demand decent services. : I believe this method has worked

a : sa 0 . ~ friends, taking a vacation on the diesel yacht “Sitch,” set out in search of hidden treasure; but

tories of freak Indians lured them into ane of the

millionaire businessman, his wife and

out pretty well in other professions and industries. To be sure we find dawdlers in every factory, leach business is cumbered with the unskilful worker, but in the main the laborer must give good enough serv-

working at a local department store. There I met.a “fellow who showed that’ he cared for me. -I did ‘mot

care for him at the time and broke away. In the

d | known in grade school. We have gope

meantime 1 begarr to go with a fellow: Whom I had

mazon's uncharted tributaries. Their ship was per“equ trim and staunch completely outited and provisioned for a year. 5; Ac only emergency her owner and her captain { “to anticipate was the treachery of an unknown er. A tree, swift _currerits, broke

ice to make his employment profit- | year. Now the first fellow whom able fo the man who hires him. 3 ns HAE 5 CL SRS Sa Bes come back ang find Ths 2. . | But we were speaking of dawdling CEN oa a nN, bN . 1 realized. How can 1 go about my N—and I must remind you that ; A ; § | steady, without hurting him, that'I care more for housework offers magnificent oppor- another? “oo. ANXIOUS, © . | tunities for that. Many & dy % : EEN Re dilly-dallies all over the place. ‘| ‘Better wages might establish better ( for domestic employ-|§ ment, which would Ye advasiiagecus i

hS give —

- Answer—Hell find it out for himself if you give | your tavorite more dates. We do not say to our | | friends, “See here, I like so and ;so better than: . ] | like you,” but our actions speak louder than -] | The young man may Se piqued by ference ' | for another, but youll be surprised

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by too much wealth, and a mu-