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In Tulsa Again, and He Brushes Up On Some Friendships From OM Aviation Days and Others as Well.

ULSA, Okla, April 22.—Since most of you don’t get around to Tulsa very often, maybe I'd better let you know how the folks down here are getting along. Well, Charlie Short hasn't grown any more hair on his head since I saw him last. But I guess I'm nobody to be talking about hair on the head. Charlie is a friend from the old aviation days.

He has been manager of the Tulsa Municipal Airport ever since there was one-—l11 years. At one time, Tulsa had the busiest airport in the world. Those days are gone, yet the airport here still has a distinction. For it is the only one in America (as far as Charlie Short knows) which has never lost money. It has paid its own way, clear through. Charlie likes his job. He sees millionaires all around him, but he isn't very jealous, because he's doing all right. The airport furnishes him a nice house, he takes trips, and in the summer he vacations at his ranch in Colorado. On the walls of the manager's office at Tulsa Airport are hundreds of photographs of flying men and those who hang around them. Every time I come to Tulsa I go to the airport to see if my picture is still there. Yep, it is. Been there nine years now. I don’t see how Charlie stands it. Ted Everett is another friend of aviation days. He started with the original TAT, when it was half- | plane, half-train across the continent. He lived in Washington, and New York, and St. Lonis, and Kansas City. But Ted long ago forsook aviation for oil. That When I was here the last time, two years ago, you would have thought there wasn't any city in the world except Tulsa. The Everetts couldn't figure why they'd ever lived anywhere else.

I spent a whole evening admiring the plans for the new house they were just starting, It was to be the most wonderful house in the world. The Everetts were settled for life. But this time, and everything has changed. ‘Ted has been in New York for three months, living in a A promotion in his work caused his transfer. Bernita is still here, attending to such details as selling the new house, packing the furniture, trading the old car for a new one, and listening to Ted a couple of times a week when he calls up and says, “How soon are you gonna start?” She isn’t a bit busier | than the famous one-armed paperhanger.

Hint to a Publisher

Alban B. Butler Jr. has been to South America and made drawings of his trip. He's the oil man I wrote about two years ago. He has an astounding talent for putting the personality of people down in semicaricature. Instead of keeping a diary, he carries along a book of blank paper, and sketches in pen and ink.

I've seen a lot of travel drawings, but never anything as true as Butler's, Every time you turn a page you want to exclaim, “Thats real!” He has really got hold of America. And now he has done it with the West Indies and South America. Butler draws for his own pleasure. He has been doing it for years, and has four volumes filled now. He is indifferent about having them reproduced in book form. If the world ever sees the grand stuff he has done, it will have to be through a publisher coming down here with a shotgun. I'll buy the shotgun myself, if some publisher will use it. And last but not least-among our Tulsa friends is Mrs. Walter Ferguson, whose writings you know. It's a shame you can't all know her personally. Once I wrote a column about Mrs. Ferguson. She's interesting enough to write several more about. But she's always writing such nice things about me and That Girl that I'm afraid you readers will think we've got an agreement about patting each other on the back. And maybe we have, who knows?

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Reaches New York After Delay as Fog Bars Landing at Minneapolis.

EW YORK CITY, Friday.—Until we neared Minneapolis last Wednesday night, I had a marvelously good trip across the United States. Then clouds and storm loomed on the horizon and fog was not far behind. We actually saw the Minneapolis airport below us and were ready for a landing, when we zoomed up again and shortly were told that conditions were not right and we would not be permitted to land but would have to return to Fargo, N. D,, which we had left at 6:45 in the morning! Across the aisle from me sat a patient but rather worried looking woman whose mother was lying dangerously ill in Minneapolis. As we got out for the second time at Fargo, a message was handed to her from her brother, who had seen the plane over the Minneapolis airport and had wired to say that her mother was still alive. We refueled and started back, knowing that if we could not land this time we could continue to Chicago, but fortunately the rain left enough ceiling to make landing safe, and so my neighbor across the aisle was able to get out at 11:30 a. m.

Viewpoint Is Unchanged

I sat at the lunch counter and ate a bowl of soup and then re-embarked for Chicago. We had a little over an hour to wait there and a very ardent young newspaper reporter sat with me for a time. She was a nice young thing with many enthusiasms. She, or one of the other reporters, wanted to know if my nephew's accident would make me change my point of view about young people flying. I assured her my point of view remained the same. I have always felt this modern world requires youth to take responsibility at an earlier age because of the many dangers which modern speed and inventions have brought us. We reached Newark, N. J., just after 8 o'clock last night and the usual cameramen and newspaper people were on hand. One young girl, after asking me several questions, caught up with my secretary and inquired: “Would you mind telling me why Mrs. Roosevelt has come home?” Do you think these young things ever read the papers, or do they just write for them? 1 was back at the Newark Airport this morning at 8 o'clock to meet my brother. After endless telephoning, we are flying to Boston tonight.

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service 7 1G of speech abound in mixtures of sensory experience—we speak of “hot music,” “blue songs,” “loud suits,” “tone pictures,” “soft tones,” ‘sweet melodies” and “dark brown tastes.” To some, these have more than figurative significance. The association of color and music seems particularly real to some who feel that a musical selection can actually be seen as a color or series or mixture of flowing tints. Exploring this odd linking of the senses, Drs. Henry S. Odbert, Theodore F. Karwoski and A. B. Eckerson of Dartmouth College, found that the mood evoked by a musical selection is related to the colors «geen” or associated with that particular composition. The “Market Place,” from the Ravel transcription of Moussorgski’s “Pictures in an Exhibition” was described by listeners as predominantly merry, agitated, or humorous. More than half the colors reported were light mixtures, reds and yellow. The “Giant Motif” from Wagner's “Ring Cycle,” called vigorous, serious and sad is “seen” as black,

The Delius composition “On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring,” which arouses a mood dreamy

and serene generally brought to mind light mixtures colors, blues and greens:

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Second Section

SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1939

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffices, Indiananolls,

Giant Texas Telescope in Action

82-Inch Glass, Second La

The mirror end of McDonald Observatory’s great 82-inch telescope. Near the electric control are Dr, Otto Struve, director (right), Dr, H, G. Gale, head of the University of Chicago's physics department (center), and Dr, C. T. Elvey, second in command (left).

By Watson Davis

Director, Science Service

PON a mountain top in Texas, science has a new look-

ing glass for the Heavens.

It is the second largest

telescope in the world, and the most perfect. The great glass mirror of the McDonald Observatory

is nearly seven feet across, 82 inches in diameter.

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shiny coating aluminum is laid on an arduously and patiently fashioned glass surface accurate to a millionth of

an inch.

Astronomers expect great discoveries from this precise

tool for exploration of the universe, this $800,000 investment that will pay dividends in scientific knowl-

edge. Watch for these discoveries to be made! New white-hot, dwarf stars so compressed that they are as tiny as our earth, with each cubic inch weighing several tons. New clouds of glowing gas in the universe, remains of disintegrated stars and planets. Mt. Locke towers nearly 6900 feet in the Davis Mountains resort region of western Texas. McDonald Observatory's great dome perches upon it, tall as a fivestory building, shiny, electrically operated, center of a little scientific colony, 45 miles remote from the railroad and 16 miles from the closest village. Two great universities co-oper-ate to operate this outpost of astronomy. With a bequest from a Paris, Tex. banker, William J. McDonald, the University of Texas paid for the observatory, The University of Chicago, long parent to famous Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis, joins in its operation. For nearly six years, the Warner & Swasey Co. of Cleveland, builder of precision machine tools and telescopes, has been designing and constructing the telescope and observatory, fashioning the mirror from a great glass disk poured at Corning, N. Y. » » n INALLY on May 5, in the presence of a notable gathering of American and foreign astronomers, the new observatory will be dedicated. Already the great glass has been swung into action under the guidance of Dr. Otto Struve, director of McDonald and Yerkes Observatories. It is living up to the hopes of the astronomers. Only the 100-inch telescope, in operation for two decades on Mt. Wilson, Cal, now exceeds in size the McDonald telescope.

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Side Glances

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these telescopes will be topped in size by the 200-inch reflector for Mt. Palomar, Cal, when it is completed, probably next year. But such heavy astronomical artillery is too precious to be used competitively. Each of these great telescopes has its own tasks. The operating astronomers co-operate in making their plans so that their precious observing hours are not wasted in duplication, If a man could fly 3000 miles out in space, the McDonald mirror could still pick up his image. So powerful is it that photographs can be taken of stars which are a million times fainter than the faintest seen with the unaided eve. Some of these stars are so distant ' that it takes light 400,000,000 years to travel from them to earth. The observatory itself is a threestory cylindrical house, surmounted by a 62-foot diameter hemispherical dome containing the telescope itself. The telescope is 26 feet long and weighs 75 tons, including the three-ton mirror. But so carefully poised is the instrument that a one-third horsepower motor drives it accurately to a hair's breadth. The dome weighs 115 tons and the telescope is sighted at the heavens through an 18foot wide slot. ” » » R. STRUVE, director of McDonald and Yerkes Observatories, comes of an astronomical family, his father, grandfather and great-grandfather having been world-famous astronomers in Russia under the Tsars. Dr. C. T. Elvey is second in com=mand at McDonald Observatory. Other McDonald-Yerkes astronomers who will use the new telescope are: Dr. George Van Biesbroeck, famous for comet observations; Dr. G. P. Kuiper, who specializes on extra-heavy Jwarf stars; Prof. W. WwW. Morgan, authority on star spectra; Prof, S. Chandrasekhar, who specializes on the constitution of stars, and Prof. Karl E. Seyfert. Prof.

"Look at all the attention you're attracting, Butch!”

rgest in World, Mounted on 6900-Foot Peak

Here is the world’s second largest observatory on Mt. Locke, near Ft. Davis, Tex. McDonald Observatory is operated jointly by the Universities of Texas and Chicago. It is as tall as a five-story building and

its giant telescope is in the dome,

Chandrasekhar is an East Indian, and his name is appropriate to an astronomer since it means “the man who carries the moon.” He happens to be a nephew of Nobelist C. V. Raman. Most of the large telescopes are of the reflecting or mirror type like that of McDonald Observatory. Among these large reflecting telescopes smaller than MecDonold’s 82-inch are: Dunlop Observatory’s 74-inch near Toronto, Dominion Observatory’s 72-inch at Victoria, British Columbia; Ohio Wesleyan's 69-inch at Delaware, Ohio; Harvard's 61-inch at Oak Ridge, Mass.; Harvard's 60-inch in South Africa. The largest of the refracting or lens telescopes is at McDonald’s older sister institution, Yerkes Observatory, Wil. liams Bay, Wis., which has a 40inch instrument.

First photograph of the moon taken with the new 82-inch diameter

mirror of McDonald Observatory. aimed at such nearby objects. clouds will be investigated.

Seldom will the new telescope be

Extremely faint stars and great gas

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Lord Beaverbrook’s Admission on War Planes Termed Significant

By Maj. Al Williams Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, April 22.—In his recent interview with my friend Lord Beaverbrook, whom I regard as the outstanding thinker of the British Empire today, Roy W. Howard quoted Beaverbrook as understanding that “Germany’s might now depends upon her airpower.” This is a most significant quotation in a changing world. Contrary to many sleepy military and naval leaders of the world, airpower today holds the balance of power in the field of military influence. Recognition of airpower as a determining factor in international affairs is not a victory for the airpower enthusiasts, and neither is it proof that airpower can accomplish all that is implied in its threat. But Beaverbrook is one of the most astute realists in or near the head of any of the govern-

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—If a sentence ends with an abbreviation is it necessary to use two periods? 2-—Name the British fortress and Crown colony at the western entrance to the Mediterranean. 3—Which is the lightest metal? 4—What will be the tonnage of the two battleships recently proposed for the U. S. Navy? 5—What is an opthalmoscope? 6—Name the European explorer who discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River. 7—What is the name of the science which treats of coins and medals? » » » Answers 1—No. 2—Gibraltar. 3—Lithium, 4—Fach will be 45,000 tons. 5—An instrument for examin ing the interior of the living eye. 6—La Salle. T—Numismaties.

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advice cannot be given nor can extended research be under-

ments at the present time. His willingness to be quoted is evidence that his opinion is more than a haphazard guess. The British Army has been the instrument of British influence in Europe, while the British Navy took the world in its sweeping stride. Until air power stretched its dark wings to threatening proportions, British seapower was all-suflicient. And when Lord Beaverbrook tells the world that the might of Gere many is in her airpower, he does not, in all fairness, even imply that British seapower has beeh entirely superseded by airpower.

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E is also telling us, by inference, that it was consideration for the threatened potency of German airpower that shapes the present conciliatory attitude of England in the European situation, In 1914 the German high-seas fleet was a definite threat to the

Everyday Movies—By Wortman

supremacy: of England on the sea. German battleships were possessed at that time of performance chars acteristics that gave them a cere tain advantage over those built by the British, The British had to design their ships for operations all over the world. Long cruising range was one of the most important characteristics. And to obtain this feature the British had to sacrifice a little speed. In 1038, just prior to the Munich showdown, the British sea fleet was far stronger than in 1914, while the German sea fleet was, and still is, a nonentity. But Mars had added another spear to his collection. This spear has wings. These wings ignored sea power and threatened the destruce tion of London and other British commercial centers. Whether England can defend herself from air attack is another matter,

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Ind.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Louis Henri Reed Who Made Death Mask of Lincoln Later Won Fame With Complete Statue of Venus.

IN April, 1865, when the body of Abraham Lincoln lay in state in Indianapolis, Louis Henri Reed made a death mask of the martyred President. Mr. Reed was a nephew of B. K. Foster, State Librarian at the time,

and it may just be possible that it had some thing to do with his being at the State House that day. The death mask was used to make a bas-relief and an excellent piece of work it turned out to bas

In all probability, it’s the one in the State Library, Prior to this time very little is known of Mr. Reed's achievements, Right after the making of the mask, however, he was a busy man around here, For one thing, he began wondering what the original Venus de Milo looked like, Thirty years later, sometime around the turn of the century, he had his mind made up. To get that far, he had to start at the beginning. The story began like this, I remember: One morning in Febuary, 1820, the ground caved in under the feet of two peasants of the Island of Melos, The men fell headlong into the cavern which turned out to be a temple, Right away news of the rich find reached the French Consul who immediately rushed to the spot and separated from the heap a statue, 6 feet high, which has since been known to the world as the Venus de Milo. The Consul also found broken arms and legs, but nobody knows whether any of them belonged to the Venus or not, As a matter of fact, nobody knows for sure, whether the statue was mutilated when the Consul arrived, There was, for instance, a skirmish between the people of ihe island and the crew of the French frigate which carried off the statue, and it might just be possible, said Mr. Reed, that the Venus was hurt in transit, Indeed, the French Consul once declared that he knew where the missing arms were, but nobody could get him to tell. Seems he was peeved because his name was not inscribed on the pedestal when the statue was set up in the Louvre,

Not Venus, but Victory Be that as it may, the statue was without arms when it arrived in France. And ever since that day, men the world over, including Mr. Reed of Indian apolis, have cudgeled their brains to figure out what the Venus looked like before her accident. Som9 have put a shield or tablet on her knee, thinking that maybe she was reading an inscription. Others have claimed that she was holding a crown of laurel, and one or two terribly matter-of-fact artists seemed to think that she was doing something more important than combing her hair, Some, indexd, went so far as to claim that the statue wasn’t a Venus at all, but a Victory, They argued that the statue wasn't soft enough to be a Venus, She was decidedly vigorous and muscular, showing that she was up to something requiring more or less physical effort, More, anyway, than is usually associated with Venus. Mr. Reed, I am happy to say, stuck to the Venus theory, and after 30 years of intensive study pro=duced a figure complete with arms and hands, in one of which—the left as I recall—reposed an apple, Mr. Reed had it figured out that the only correct pose was the one suggested by the old mythological story of the reward of the apple of fruitfulness. Venus, you will recall, received the prize, and Mr. Reed portruyed her in the act of inspecting the apple, to see that it wasn’t a speckled one. Mr. Reed boarded at 521 E. Market St. when he announced his discovery.

Jane Jordan—

Young Man Advised Not to Ignore Parental Opposition to Romance.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a boy nearly 19 and I have a good education. About a year ago I fell in love with a girl who is in high school. Our parents will not allow us to see each other. We love

each other very much. I would like to know if we should go together or not. Is it permissible to ignore our parents’ wishes because we love each other, and see as. much as possible of each other? J.D.

Mr. Scherrer

Answer—I haven't enough facts to make a sensible answer. In general, I object to parents who forbid children to see each other. If I issued any such blind order to my own sons, I should expect to be disobeyed, Your parents may have excellent reasons for wishing to keep you and the girl apart, but their method is

extremely shortsighted. For the most part, children are willing to be ad=-

vised by sympathetic parents, and revolt only against tyranny. High school love affairs usually break up by themselves if parents keep their hands off. At 10 it is not smart for you to take your emotion for this girl too seriously. Whether you know it or not, at least part of your feeling has been stirred up by this opposition. If you saw her day in and day out, the tension would lessen, and Jor al! you know your love might lessen, too. Keep your head. If you're dependent upon your family, you're obliged to consider their wishes to soma extent whether you like it or not. In a few years you will be on your own, not subject to anybody's domi= nation. Don’t let your parents’ veto drive you into an intense love affair which you may regret later, ” ” »

EAR JANE JORDAN—I have a woman friend

| confiding our affairs in each other.

and we both trusted each other very much, often My friend told me about a nasty trick which two other women played on her. As these women did the same thing to me, I naturally told my friend about it. Now my friend writes to you asking whether or not you think that if I talk about my friends to her, I would talk about her and her family. I am sure she knows that I do not. If she thinks I do, why does she trust me by telling me everything she knows? What should I do in this case? A. D.

Answer—The wisest course is simply to hold your tongue. Now that you know your confidences cause your friend to mistrust you, refrain from telling her things which arouse her fears that you will talk about

her, too. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions in this column daily.

New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

EW MOON HOUSE, built in the Seventeenth Century, was once a three-storied mansion in the center of fashionable London. Centuries later, it is a shabby apartment house in the slums, tenanted on the ground floors by a wine shop, a furniture store, an Italian cafe, and a gaudy new night club, Upstairs live a country-bred girl in love with an aviator, a ribald old woman and her five cats, a Negro preacher from Louisiana, a renegade doctor, an old miser, and two prostitutes. These tenants have only one thing in common—an uneasy foreboding of a come ing fire. In HERE COMES A CANDLE (Macmillan) Storm Jameson gathers the tangled dramas of these varied lives into the last three days of the old house's existence.