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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 24; The task I am

would call a “herculean” one.. .I will try to tell ‘how Walt: Disney’ s animated cartoons - are made.

~- ager and brother, said: “If you've found out, I wish

. employees .don’t have to get down on their hands

‘business is the Story Department. Here is where the

: for two years before: anything happens.

Disney Shapes Yarns ©

.- until Walt ‘is apsolutely satisfied. Once the story is

. draw 50 or 60 pictures,” ‘showing ‘high points of action

~ color, are tacked on the wall in sequence. _ over the thing. Walt is always there.

. changed plot, and maybe .a .week later Walt and the ~ story brains will corivene again. This is repeated and _ repeated until. Walt is satisfied.

_- bed was turned down, the lights were lit, but when I

- Stresses Adult Education’

behind me. ing along quietly and Chandler was off to school look-

by accident, two ladies from California, who had seen

_ pative: land, acting as secretary: te Ellen's author-

built w jor ie Jake of that honor ‘which it has been taught

Civil: and they with their families and a few refugees

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From Indiana — Ernie Pyle

"Producing a Mickey Mouse Picture * Requires Plenty of Bookkeeping, Thinking, . Conferring and Drawing.

starting on today is what. the writers

Roy Disney, who i is Walt's Husinest man-

yoird: come and tell: the boys.around here how they do ‘it. We. don’t know.” So you see what I'm taking on when I try to tell what makes them move. It has been written a thousand times, yet few people understand if. And no wonder. The whole business. of making animated cartoons is a jumble. You'll see just one little Mickey Mouse scene: being drawn on thou~sands of-sheets of paper in a dozen different buildings. My thoughts on the first day were: “How on earth do they keep track of things, : and get them all - together in the end?” . - ‘Mr. Pyle The secret to that is really simple. Bookkeeping. Everything has a number on it. You just line up the numbers in the end, and there you have a movie.

But I can’t help wondering if, sometimes, all 700

and knees and hunt for the scene of Missy falling into the pie.

Walt Disney himself is the great spirit behind all his pictures. Others may do the drawing and boss the details, but it’s Walt’s genius that hits the screen.

. He transfers this “touch” through his Story Department. He says the most important thing in the

ideas originate and the story is formed, and where the mulling and pondering over an idea may go on

A few of the men in this department are ‘writers; nearly everyone is an artist; absolutely everyone, is a thinker, > J

Most of Mr: Disney’s office time nowadays is spent in confab with the story department. Through continual conferences he molds and shapes the yarns as he wants them, even down to the tone of a voice, the turn of a face. The. plot is not sent into production

launched; he doesn’t bother much with it until the near-final runoffs. Here’s how it works. Somebody gets an idea for a plot, or maybe it’s decided to make some book into a movie. There aren't any scenario writers to put down the plot. The artists just draw it out in sketches. They

that fell the story. These sketches, some in pencil, others in water And then the story department brains gather around and hash

Changes are suggested here, and changes there. The - go back and.draw .new sketches to ‘fit the

Right now the Disney studio has 19 pictures in the making—17 shorts and two full-length features. Soyou. see 3 takes a lot of conferences. :

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

. First Lady: Returns. to White House To Find All: Her Closets Locked:

FASHINGTON, - Wednesday. —We. arrived here last night and were met at the station. We very nearly came to the White House unexpectedly, for we had forgotten to send any word and only remembered in Baltimore to telegraph the usher! On the surface everything was ready for me; my -

tried to hang up my coat, I found my closet was locked. ' I know my maid is. always very careful and when T am away Keeps everything under lock and key. However, I never before found my room in this condition ‘and I did not know where the Keys were kept! My traveling bag was useful, for without it I would not have had. even .a wrapper since i could open no drawers or closets. I had a 7:30 breakfast. with my little cousin and her governess, who used to be with Anna and who has come to stay with us for a little while. It was fortunate I started my day early, for I was promptly greeted by Mrs. MacDuffie with news that my grandchildren’s nurse had been Taid up’fof a couple of days and that the little boy had a bad cold.

©: It isa Jong time since I have-had much to do with children’s diseases. - There “was -a time when c6lds, ears, glands and throats were all very familiar to me. I don’t, therefore, become very much excited over children’s illnesses, but this sense of calm would not be mune if so many’ years of experience did not lie

~ In a litle while everything was arranged and mov-

ing very well and cheerful.. ... There were a number of. people for lunch. Quite

each other there not so long ago, were quite surprised to meet each other here. One of them, Mrs. Marguerite: Clark, is deeply intetested: in everything which can be done to promote adult education. She feels a democracy can only function if its citizenship is able inteiligently :to study the problems of government. When she left she said: “IT am not worried about the younger generation. I want our adults to be as intel-

ligent as possible.”

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NE must not laugh because a child is in love,” says Robert Nathan; and we shall not again, ever, remembering Ellen, going on 15, who regarded Eric with a selfless devotion which asked leave only to. consecrate everything, :provided it wasn’t too pain ul. Erie; young doctor of ‘philosophy, exiled from his

grandfather, was sweetly. gentle; while Grandfather, though terribly old, thought Ellen, was wise and most understanding. .’ As a tender little love story WINTER IN APRIL (Knopf) is delightful; but under the surface lies a penetrating exposition of the spirit of the age. “One must be very old or very young,” says Grandfather, who speaks for Mr. Nathan, “to bear with courage the burden of these times.” Ellen was made aware, living poignantly in her “last clear moment” between childhood and womanhood and Eric knew also, that the world is well on the way fo destroy “all that we have up with so much labor,” and that youth must throw all.its hopes into the shambles which is, war,

. » ‘ig . \URING all the dramatic world events of the past two years probably nothing has been - more . spectacular than the heroic defense of the Alcazar.’ ancient Moorish fortress, once the home of Ein and Isabella, had been practically forgotten. Hidden away in the sleepy old town of Toledo, it was used’ ly as a military academy, , home of some 600 soldiers. But with the news of revolt in Morocco; Col. Moscardo recalled the Guardia

d the fortress to a: capacity of 1800. ‘SIEGE OF. ALCAZAR (Knopf), by. Major eill-Moss, - gives an accurate day-by-of all that took place within the castle uly 18, 1936, and Sept. 26. The author has ane from letters, diaries, and conversa«: th the: besieged. Carefully he has -excluded -

comments political views, so that his an picture of actual events.

AURORA BOREALIS

NIGHT-TIME RADIO CEILING |

(Second of a ‘Series)

By David Dietz

TimesaScience Editor:

WORDS on electric wings fly. across the Atlantic with

the speed of light.

; ceiv er and

ve your instructions to. the. operator.

Take ‘down. your telephone res:

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minute or two you will be conversing with London or Paris

or Stockholm.

For you, it is as simple as talking to a.neighbor on the next street. But it is not as simple as it seems. At the.

- coast station, where your voice leaves the telephone wires

and takes to the ether of space, skilled engineers constantly watch the fluctuating needles of delicate meters. Other engineers are likewise on the job on the other side of the Atlantic, where your voice comes back fo earth.

These engineers know that on some days your voice will travel best across the Atlantic on a very high wavelength, on another day a lower wavelength is better. Some days more .power is

required to-span the. Atlanti¢ than

others. Experience has. taught them to

connect these fluctuations with the position of the sun in the sky and particulariy with activity upon the. sun. When large sunspots appear, they get ready for trouble. A severe outbreak of sunspots like that. which occurred during the third week in ‘January -disrupts trans-Atlantic radio: service completely. ; 2 z = = OT until the advent of radio did scientists realize how constant and important a role the sun ‘and sunspots played in many conditions on earth. Astronomers have, of course, always realized

A WOMAN'S VIEW By Mrs. Walter Ferguson - DET and anger well into our heart when we read such news stories: as ‘that - of: the Arkansas truck driver's young wife who, following an accidental gun-

shot wound, was rushed to the hos-

pital for ‘a ‘leg ‘amputation ' and whose only thought was of her unborn child. Delight : comes because now, three weeks later, the

baby is safe in its mother’s arms.

Anger follows when we realize once more that what women bring forth in ‘pain men destroy without so much as a by-your-leave to us. “I've got my baby,” said the maimed farm woman, “and that's all any mother could ask.” That's asked. And yet, ever asking only

that, they have ever been denied.

thé unselfish request. Ever feeling love and practicing devotion, they

have been forced at intervals to

hand over their children to be slaughtered by the millions. countless ages, women have been the givers of life and men have been its destroyers. . Man - guards his own {treasure ‘carefully. His goods and chattels, so hardly accumulated, are dear to him.”. That for which he has ‘sweated and toiled he longs to keep.

:Yet even as he hovers over his

bonds and stocks, his little plot of

earth, he: passes legislation to make |

wars. which. take from women their treasure won through travail. Sons, for whom mothers "have actually

giver their lives, can be driven like ‘sheep to face sure destruction by |

bomb - longer justice?

nd shrapnel. How ‘much women “endure this in.

all ' mothers have ever. ;

that the sun is the source of the earth’s heat and light. It also was known that the pe

pearance ‘of spots upon the sun °

was -usually- accompanied by intensified displays of the aurora borealis or northern lights and by magnetic ‘storms which upset’ the compass needle and" threw long-

' distance telephone and elegraph)

lines out of order. But with progress in radio re-

- search, it was. disclosed that we

earth-dwellers live under an electric ceiling. It is this electric ceiling which makes radio communication. possible. Speaking more technically, ‘this ceiling is a layer.of electrified air

(Engineers prefer to speak of it as.

a layer of ionized air or as the ionosphere, but that means the

“same thing).

o ” ” IGHER than the tallest mountain, higher than the highest stratosphere balloon as-

cension, this layer of electrified.

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JE By Anton Scherrer

The sketch at the ttt shows the location of the ‘radio ceiling. : At. the right is the’ new antenna of Station KDKA. |

Immediately below. is the con-

trol room of the Rocky Point station where engineers guard the

. 25 MILES

(2.5 MILES

air covers us. It is created by ‘the :

action of the ultra violet radiation of the sun upon the rarefied gases of the upper atmosphere.

_ Radio waves, leaving the ’ antenna. of a transmitting station strike -

this electrified-ceiling" and-are re=

flected “back to éarth. It is like ’

an indoor game of squash ° in which you hit the ball up against the gymnasium ceiling and then let it bounce back to the floor _ ; again. .

But, as Dr. ‘Harlan T. Stetson :

of Massachusetts , Institute of. Technology points -6ut, it is a difficult game of squash because it'is °

played with & movable ceiling. The

ionosphere or radio ceiling Tefuses to stay put. °° During" the daytime, when the

sun is pouring its ultra-violet ra-

diation upon the atmosphere, the radio ceiling comes. down to height of about 35 miles above the

1 earth’s surface. At night, the

electrification ‘begins’ to: dissipate’

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and so it rises to a height of about 75 miles above the earth's surface. Sa 2 x» : UT: the radio ceiling also undergoes other fluctuations. There: ‘are - seasonal - fluctuations

* dependent upon: the length of day

and - night": and there are longtime fhietuations: dependent upon the sunspot cycle. It has been established that the sun emits more ‘ultraviolet in times of sunspot na than at times of minima. But in: addition to all this, there y are sudden and frequent uprheavals in ‘the radio ceiling due

sunspots; Because of the interest

. of the radio: and. telephone : peo-.

“ple in this problem, careful day- . by-day: study of the problem is under: way.

+ motion picture film, has been installed at Mt. Wilson Observatory to make a constant record of solar activity. In 15 instances, sudden ‘Rareups. in the sun have coincided with . fadeouts of radio: transmission. _ If we had electric eyes, Dr. ' Stetson tells. us, we would find * that the radio ceiling is no smooth, ‘level affair but that: it was like the waters of a :stormtossed sea, always: restless, mov-

‘| ing inigreat waves and currents.

” » » know what the effect of

radio reception and. this ‘Jeads us ‘to ask what effect it may have on . other terrestrial phenomena. When we attempt to .answer. this question, we leave the ‘field: of established fact and enter that of more speculative theory. : Dr. A. E. Douglass, University of Arizona ‘astronomer, undertook a study ‘of tree rings. A narrow ring shows a year of poor growth,

growth. He found a cycle in tree growth ding to sunspots

ins believes he

‘trans-Atlantic radio “hookup. To

the left is a dendograph—a device - used to record tree growth in oonnection with studies of the sun's effect on crops. ;

vance:

to the: day-by-day changes in

A ‘spéecial device, equipped with

this constant activity. is upon |

a wide. ring shows a year of good

correspon and was able to trace this cycle in ‘the: Sat} trees. of California

nd oars OF 2 ests

{2 of how sunspots

tions have verified Yhemséives in more cases than not. . 2 2 2 HE weather problem also has been investigated by H. Helm Clayton of Canton, Mass. Mr. Clayton, a well-known meteorologist, : carried out many of his studies in association’ with Dr.: Abbot.

of sunspot maxima than minima. He has also traced iceberg records in the Arctic and the Antarctic: and finds two ‘to three times as’ many icebergs at sunspot maxima as at minima.

Mr. Clayton believes the weather is controlled by. certain high:pres-

sure areas and ow pressure, areas

which: are practically stationary. These are-the centers so to speak from which weather is sent out to the rest of the world. They are

the depots from which storms are -

dispatched. Mr. Clayton believes the locations of these centers :shift with changes in the sunspots. and that this is the: mechanism’ by : whichsunspots affect. the: weather.

Much work needs to be done, how-.| ever, before ihe; theory is firmly °

established. Discussing this Subject, BE; Stet. son writes in his “Sunspots” an

Their Effects”: “Dr. Abbot of : the 3) Smithsonian Institution concurs -

with Mr. Clayton.“in': the. : belief that if there were no variations in the sun’s radiation, atmospheric movements would: soon be reduced to a stable system with periodic exchanges of: air between: the equator and the poles and be=

tween the ocean and the. land. a

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“W JITHOUT variation in the ; sun, these exchanges would

depend mainly upon the variation of the heat received by the. earth due to day. and night and to the _seasons. These would be set into operation: merely: by the relative:

motions of the earth ‘as it turned. .

on: its axis ‘and journeys around. the sun. Both Dr. ‘Abbot and Dr.’ Clayton firmly: believe that ‘theexisting: abnormal changes in weather which we. experience have their chief source of origin in vari--

i ations of the ‘sun itself.

“Dr. ‘Abbot’s long investigations

of solar variations and weather |

have convinced him that the sun--

spot period is an important factor : in untangling the vagaries of the bh

weather.”

Summ: the evidence, Dr.

Stetson says, “However complex 4

and conflicting ‘the results of various investigators who have at-:

tempted to link weather with suns |

spots, it appears that enough evi- |! erice has been: presen

ted so that:

‘will bring to light more and more support for the hypothesis of a.

Jee may feel fairly confident thas future investigation :

connec $. between weather and the neon.

We come finally to the subject

+ direct this is na a es wings | 1

is most highly speculative and the one hich we must discuss

most, 2. This Will be dane'in the 3 of this series.

Examining snowfall rec-: ords in Massachusetts, he found 40 per cent more snow at the time:

“but gossip.

and correct the. “the love of those with. whom she lives. ‘Have you this

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might exercise a: | effect upon the human race. |

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Mr. Schellschmidt Is ‘Encouraged In His ‘Campaign to. Extend to Men Equal ' Public Primping Privileges.

JDRIVEN t to distraction by. the way women

. primp in public, Adolph Schellschmidt says he’s thinking some of carrying his razor

around with him. He says if the women of

Indianapolis persist in the practice of using the streetcar as a boudoir, he doesn’t see why men shouldn't have the same privilege. On the theory of course, that what is ‘good for the goose is also good for the gander.

I think Mr. Schellschmidt has something there. - So mutch, in fact, ~~ that I don’t see why he doesn’t start shaving onthe streetcar. Certainly, the time is propitious to do something right now. If we don’t, . first thing we know thé women will be brushing ‘their teeth in. public. Come to think of it, it’s only a mat- - ter of a margin between a Nipstick and a tooth brush. ; . Speaking philosophically as I try to once in a while, I can’t help : wondering why the women do so much primping— especially in public. I guess it’s because they want to look pretty.” A shrewder giiess would be to say that the women want to fool us into believing that they look young, as if we old codgers didn’t know the dif= ference between rouge and, ‘the bloom of youth; or for that matter, , he differerice between a girl’s velvety complexion ahd an impaste of powder, ee

That isn’t all there is to it,’ “however.” “The real reason a wom ants to look ‘young’ is because she is afraid of look old. I'm sure of it, and fer the life of me, I don’t see why the women feel that way about it. ' It strikes me that women, like men, ought to grow old in a tranquil and appropriate way, perfectly contented with their time of life, and proud of their wrinkles and white hair. Certainly, women ought not to be dragged protesting from the scene, catching desperately at a compact filled with pewder, rouge and lipstick. If women but knew it, most men tum their heads to have another look at a woman who has the good sense to let well eno gh alone, and let herself grow old grace fully.

Youth Is Pompous Period

1 have even looked into the business of growing old gracefully, and as near as I can figure: out, it’s - mostly a matter of losing self-consciousness. ‘Anyway, when you come to think of it,” youth is. that pompous period when one’s peace of mind is ruined by the painful consciousness that to get along in this world you have ‘to put up a front to: appear ime pressive (and-in the case of girls, beautiful, too).

: ©. Most men as they grow older lose this self-regarde ing attitude. ‘With thé years, they even lose the expectation of being. impressive, probably . because they know it isn’t worth. the trouble. . For some reasons, however, women never give up, and go on believing that with the aid of a compact and a magic mirror they can stop the clock and make themselves ‘appear as young and beautiful as Snow White. I guess I could think’ up. some more to encourage Mr. Schellschmidt in his crusade, but maybe it’s enough to show why women primp in public and men don’t.

Mr. Schefrer

He claims ‘these predic-~ if dn

Jane Jordan =e Do Not Be: Adverse to Changing Attitudes, Troubled Mother - Told.

DE= JANE JORDAN-—I am married and pass five children ranging in age from 3 to 15. children are ashamed-of me and think they Tod more than I do. My mother tells me that I am oldfashioned and a misfit. My husband told me he

| would not stay with me if it were not for the children,

. He ridicules: me because I ‘can’t enjoy smoking and

“drinking. For the past 10 years my health has been failing and 1’ have been in the hospital three times and have lost one eye. I am very hard of hearing. The doctor says my deafness comes from my nerves and may get better and againiit may not. If I could -get Work washing dishes or cleaning offices at night it might help me. This work would take little sight and no hearing. Where would I go to get a job of this kind? I prefer night” ‘work or work after 2 p.m. IT JUST ME. . * Et . Answer—Since I do not know. your ‘family I cannot be sure of what I.say, but I. do. not believe your husband and children want you to go to work. The mother of five has plenty to do-at home. If youll pardon me for saying so I think there is just a little element of revenge in your wish to earn money. Kr is bound Joe SIobar to ch a large family e adequate e support 0 ‘a other, You know this, don’t you? hoi § mothe ~ I. believe. you. would ‘do ‘better to fice’ what truth there may be in their criticism of E300. Is it actually true that you are old-fashioned and’ a. misfit, out of step with your family. and the times? If it is, there is ‘plenty you can do'to improve yourself. You can make your family proud’ of you ad of ashamed if you have the wish to do'so.. I'am afraid. the real trouble is Ja you do not want’ to. effect any change in your ‘se

The reason I say these things is ‘that I have seen so . many ‘women antagonize their: families by lagging behind while the family: moved ahead. I have seen sloven mothers with no care for their appearance or the appearance of their homes. I have seen ignorant mothers with no urge to fill their minds with anything I have seen self-righteous mothers who - regarded any form of entertainment as sin. There are mothers who lose the love and respect .of their families but never see anything wrong with thems selves. They are constantly swamped with self-pity “and do everything they can to put others in the ‘wrong. It is. tragic to see these women. bring trouble on

themselves by resistance to change. Everybody resists

. change to some extent. ‘The last thing people want to “do is to set about making an alteration in their at-

‘titude toward life. The older one gets the more rigid

‘habits become. The... mere suggestion that certain changes are necessary for the happiness of others is ° “met with anger and malice. Once in a while we find a woman with the Sourage to take criticism to heart in herself that deprive her of

courage? ; JANE JORDAN.

=z Put your problems in s letter to-Jane Jordan, whe wil : ‘answer your pr nd in this column daily, ‘| x SR NER |

JoLLTWooD, Be. ‘streak of yagitis and Mets Gold Maser Vi i Gon ? pl > pak ow 0a 10 the biack-ghisted ar e, and it's kind of sickening to reals 135 Baine which used to. rule’ the seas, is now willing io admit that Benito's Hiopian chareds vag conceived in sweetness and light. The week-end, ower, managed io throw a lot of character: of thé resigning Minister ies g