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Radio Age

Emerson said that book worth readin.
until il was 20 years Old He meant. Of course nc
book OF imaginative literary art.
Scientific books were out OF date in less than %
years. even in his time and they need supple
m"nting by new discoveries hci0r" the printer Ma
finished setting the type.
And even literary works need no longer await ihr
slow consensus Of the competent.
The Nobel prize. and other devices, spread least
som" established vcrdics around The world in a
day. II We were 10 follow Emcrsons advice. We
should h" just now beginning to read some idylc
rnmHnc"s Of pre-war Germany
BESIDES, Emerson did not invent his prcccpt. H.
borrowed ii from Horace who got it from Aristotle,
who probably learned il in Egypt. II is too slow
for the radio age.
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LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT
TO THE LITTLE MARQUISE.
CARE OF THE SECRET
RSWFR-C0NTINlr

Yesterday, Little Marquise, | re-
turned from luncheon party to
find Jack had struck his little
brother, and was sohbing his heart
out because he had done it. / tried
to find out from the nurse what had
happened, but she too was on the
verge of Mysteries, because nothing
like this had ever occurred during
the lives of my children. =.
When poor little Jack saw me in
the doorway he ran screaming to me,
clinging To my knees. | was so hOr-
rified | could not speak. | did mol
know what WAS the matter. coul
just distinguish the words: "Forgise
me. forgive me for being so bad"
could not get him to talk coherent.y
and neither could | get anything out
of the nurse. who stood there wiring
ing her hands and crying.
What has Jack done What have
You done. baby ?" l asked
Finally got him to say: IL busted
Buddy on his head. and it .hleeded.'
What ;" | asked.
"He didn't mean to, Mrs. Prescott.
interposed the nurse. at WAS all
that old devils fault"
What are you talking about"
asked in evaporation. Il think
had better leave the room until al
least YOU, nurse, can become calm
enough to give me some explanation
of all this Mysteries.
Don't go, don't go, Mumsy.
pleaded little Jack, as he cluns
tighter. I'll tell you all about X.
You see, Grandmuvver-''
Il might have known his grand
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Getting the Big Fellows

According to British figures, the international
bootiegging ring last year lost SIS 900, 900
That is significant than if it had been de-
ic1tcd in any other way
In fact, 1t was not completely defeated in other
ways. 1t did smugge booze in, and it was still pos
sible to buy contraband in America
Prohibition enforcement did not ''enforce' in the
sense that it made lawbreakng impossible, or even
that it made disregard of this particular law as
or difficult as is disregard of laws generally
What it did to make it Improbable to its
wholesale financial hackers
But that, if it can be kept up is enough.
Retail booteggers, dealing in retail moonshne.
can never supply any very wholesale demand
Adventurous naturally lawless persons will
always engage in this retail lawlessness so long
as there retail customers to supply, and there
will always be these so long appetite and smart
Aleckness induce individuals to glory in showing
that they can beat the law
These Will always be at least numerous a 5
burglars or pickpockets, and about hard catch
The big problem is the big sources of the big
supply And the behind these have never but
motive-proft
Take that away, and they do not care who goes
thirsty"
They find other uses for their money and
will.
Take the profit out of wholesale bootegging and
you have solved three fourths OF the problem.
1t will take time and vigilance to solve three
fourths OF the remaining fourth. Then there will
remain fraction that may never be solved The
big job-and the easiest-is the wholesale profits.
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Professional and Amateur
(New York HeraldTribune)

The assertion Of DR.. W. w. Bingham, director o.
the Personal Research foundation that there is i
greater proportion motor accidents among profess
sional men. doctors, lawyers. and the like, than
among truckmen and delivery drivers is not sur
prsing as it may appear to most owner drivers 1t
is perfectly true that the man who drives his own
pleasure may be intelligent and better
educated than the man who drives for hire. But
the latter is professional because he is always
his job and because his bread and butter depends
on it, knows it better than any amateur.
DR.. Bingham explains his statement to certain
extent by citing the likelihood of the driver to
allow his mind to wander to professional engage
ments problems. when he ought to be attending
to the task of driving his task which in pres
ent traffic conditions is sufficiently exacting to TO-
quire ali the concentration that the mind mus
ter.
But whether this is true not, the refeXes re
CURED to- drive in any ana all conditions, to
adjust ones self to meet any emergency, can be
developed only by constant practice, such can be
had by seven eight more hours at the steering
wheel. Any motorist who knows the ntricacies OF
traffic is astonished while riding in taxi to see
how easily the driver lodges in and out of loophoes
between cars, how he makes time while pleasure
| practically stalled. This is beyond the
power of any who drives only to and from his
work once day.
In almost every human activity the professions
will always beat the amateur, for the reason tina
he is professional and that if he does not kee!
his skill at its highest point he will lose his lvei
hood. This is true in baseball it is true in acting
and 1t is also true in politics, as all citizens o
democracy, which is always governed in large par
bX 2mateurss can testify. sss~a4
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:: The Tangle ::

mother WAS in it, | said to myself.
w hat about Mrs. Prescott?' l
asked. tuning 10 the nurse.
About half an hour ago. Madam,
Mrs. Prescott Senior came in here.
had the baby on my lap. She had
Il package OF candy with her, and
she wanted To give some to both of
the children. 1 told her j, was
against orders to give either of the
children candy except at certain
times, that their dietary was very
scientifically prepared. and | was
earn wing il out as carefully as posi-
HE. | told her as politely as | could
that the children had had their allow
ance o. sugar for the day.
She grew very xngry at me,
madam --- told me that she had
brought up Mr.. Prescott all alone,
without the, aid of any scientific
dietary or careful nursing. and she
let him have a few little pleasures
and joys.
With this she took Buddy away
from me, sat down, ANA put a chocoA
late cream into his hand. OF course
the child was perfectly ravenous for
it. Little Jack, knowing that this
was very wrong, went over and tried
to get the candy away. The baby
chung to it and little Jack got very
excited. and when he could not set
it, he boxed the baby'S ears. saying:
Give it here. Give il here right
away"
"Of course the baby set up howl.
and little Jack seemd to think he
had done something very terrible.
Mrs. Prescott helped the matter
along by telling him she never would
dream he could be such bad boy
as that"
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Longer Skirts,
Style Dictum

Paris, Sept. ea-R)-Longer skirts,
longer sleeves and high collars will
be the rule In women's dress for the
coming fall and winter seasons, the
dictators Of fashion have ruled. Most
Of the fall and winter models dis
played at the "Grand Openings" Of
the leading dressmakers show, par
ticularly at the normal waist line.
All the frocks for day time wear
have long sleeves, mostly large from
elbow to wrist, and nearly all have
high collars. some reaching to the
ears.
For evening tho styles run to lace.
IN black, gold or silver; velvets and
silk or chiffon In light colora. Many
arc fur trimmed. and all have en-
broidery, In floral designs of the
finest beads.
The colors mostly used are black.
purple, bright blue, gray. all shades
of green and red. Much of the red Is
combined with black and many of the
blues are two toned,
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Hoover.

The final report of the Commission for Belgian
Relief just published, is cheerful contrast to prac
tically everything else pertaining the history OF
the great war.
Here was commission which exercised powers
OF more than sovereignty which organized the world
for the support and survival OF a whole nation:
which spent than $500, OO0, OOO-and did it all
on business principles, accurately, carefully, et
fcient.y and unwastedly if it a routine
business in time of peace.
And now it issues its report, accounting for every
dollar and every pound of gold with precision
such as no other agency, government pr-
yate show.
There has never been striking example
Of practical dealsm, of hard headed inspiration in
the history of the. world
Herbert Hoovers recent achievements have been
less spectacular though quite as efficient and per
haps no less useful. But it is well to be reminded
OF the time when the skill and devotion of an Amer
lean engineer and his ability to and organize
the devoted cooperation Of others, solved the most
difficult problem in the world, saved war it's worst
horror, and stirred the hearts of all OF us.
This is the chief value Of this book of dry figures
on the business side Of great spiritual adventure
Every summer resort with good place to swim
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ON HEALTH-
MILLIONS OF GERMS CAN
PLAY TAG ON PIN HEAD

ticular germ he is after from the
multitude of other germs it is asso-
ciatcd with.
AS bacteria are very s0ciable, he
finds anywhere from two or three
TO a dozen different kinds Of organ
isms in the specimen he wishes To
examine, and how to get rid of the
foreign bacteria and still leave 4
nice colony of the particular kind +,
Of germ is often an exceedingly diff
cult thing to do.
Germs are so small that the ind-
viduals are as clear as crystal and
you might examine a drop Of water
teeming with thousands Of germs
and not be able to see them with n
powerful microscope unless they
were given special treatment. In
order to make them visible the bac-
teriologist puts his germs through
I; process of staining.
For example, let US say he is cx-
aiming n specimen of sputum for
tuberculosis. lie smears a piece Of
glass with the sputum and drops on
several Kinds of chemical stains.
When these stains are dry the tu-
bprculosis germs stand out under
the microscope as beautiful red rods
in blue background.
Different kinds Of germs take diff
ferent kinds of stains, blue, red,
| green, violet or brown. By this for
tunate discovery, the bacteriologist
| is often able to look through his
microscope and tell ut 4 glance
what kind Of germs he is dealing
with, hut staining alone is not suf-
/ ficent to identify many germs.
| There are certain germs for which
Identification methods have not yet
been worked out, such as for in
stance, the germs of smallpox, scar
let fever and measles. No one has
as yet seen these germs, not even
with the most powerful microscope
SOME GERMS LIKE
HEAT: OTHERS COLD
One of the aims of those at work
is the germ laboratory is to find out
what kind Of drugs or anti-toxins
harmless to human beings will kill
| the germs so that when a person
| comes down sick with a germ dis
ease he may be given medicine
that will not harm him, but one
! which will kill the disease germs in
his body. 1t is even possible to ad-
| minister remedies that will prevent
the disease for years or during life
| in some cases.
Some germs like TO live in the
| cold. but most of them prefer
| warm temperature. The bacteriolo-
gist accommodates his dangerous
! pets by bottling them up and Civ
ing them the right kind of food and
temperature.
These bottled germs are known as
cultures.
| The study Of germs in the labora-
tory is a most fascinating pursuit.
| but it is not an occupation at all
suitable for nervous people. 1t is too
! dangerous.
Some Of our best laboratory work
J ers are women.
They appear to possess plenty Of
nerve. they are very persistent in
their research and are careful. All
Of these qualifications are necessary
in a good germ detective.
The laboratory worker is daily
surrounded by deadly enemies and
one little accident in the handling Of
disease germs may mon the end Of
! all things for him. In another ar
ticle I shall tell you something about
! martyrs Of science.
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transmitting set that can he operated
by hand il necessary, when all other
power is gone.
a husky man. turning a crank,
with proper gears, can turn out 4
couple Of hundred waits" Of power,
and whole crew together could
turn out considerable fraction Of a
kilowatt, which is a great deal more
than is needed to operate a trans
hitting set.
And there will be more emergency
food, more water, and little reserve
gasoline, not available for flying.
Finally, one naval flyer has made
a reputation which even yellow jour-
nails will respect. And that man is
appointed assistant chief of the air
service.
If that man makes what yellow
journalist critics, in and out Of the
service, think are "mistakes,' they
can at least not be charged to ignor-
ance, incompetence, lack of practical
experience, or lack Of skill, resource
fulness, character or courage.
A sensible man, loyal to his SER
vice, who has at the same time the
confidence Of the sensationalists,
was needed-and has beeen found.
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CROSSINGS

Hardly a day passes that someone in an autom ,
bile is not killed at a railroad crossing.
The number of automobiles in this country has
become great that it is the duty of govern
ments-state, county and city-to to it that all
railroad crossings main highways are provided
with viaduct Il subway. Traffic stopped fOrdin:
streams in the country years ago. Every stream on
Il main highway has bridge. The same protection
must be afforded At railroad crossings.
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"Why don't you start an agita.
'tion for enforcing all laws equally
instead Of putting all the stress or
enforcing the prohibition law" say
some whose real interest is that
they do not want this one law en-.
forced.
Bless you; that is exactly what Is
being done.
Only, the way to enforce laws
equally is to enforce them unequally
That is, enforcement should be
equally proportional to resistance.
If a law is resisted one ounce, one
ounce of pressure should be applied
to enforcing it. If the resistance is
one pound, the enforcement should
also be pound. And if the resist.
ance is a ton, the only way to make
enforcement effort equal" is to en-.
force it ton also.
So, an ounce of effort on one law
and ton on another is precisely the
way to be equal" in enforcement
energy.
Whenever the vets want the pres.
sure on prohibition enforcement re.
duced to one ounce, they can easily
bring that about by reducing their
own efforts against it to the same
amount.
DANGERS OF THIS
PROPAGANDA GAME
Don't start the propaganda game
unless you are willing for the Other
fellow to do it, too, and to take the
risk that he will beat you at it.
Just now it is a dispute between
the international idealists and the
super-patriotic nationalists to sec
whether history text books shall
glorify national pride or teach inter.
national understanding.
The only right answer, Of course
as we'll as the only safe one, is that
they shall do neither.
Let them tell the exact truth, as
the best qualified experts find that
truth, and leave the students to dc
their own moralizing. In fact, il
they can draw the moral that the
truth is more essential than a con.
clusion sustaining either "side" Of
anything, they will have learned pre-
cisely the most vital of modern NOR
alities.
LESSONS OF THE
PACIFIC PLANE RESCUE
mere mas Dcen no more dramatic
story than that of the rescue, or,
rather, the escape, of Commander
Rodgers and his brave crew of flyers,
Probably the only ones to whom it
was not dramatic. were the aviators
themselves. TheJ were behind the
scenes, and knew all the plot.
Besidesl they were busy, and hard
work leaves little time for thrills.
They come afterward.
But, at least, the dramatizinr of it
to the rest of the world will serve to
emphasize its lessons.
First of these is the lesson long
ago learned in mine disasters.
The rule of the mines is that the
entombed victims are alive until
their dead bodies are discovered.
Now it will be the rule that lost
aviatora are alive until thew are
found dead, or the broken fragment
of their vessel are found without
them.
Next is that a modern bombing sea-
plane is seaworthy vessel, and
should be manned by men who are
seamen as we'll as airmen. Only the
fine seamanship Of these navy avi-
ators saved q tragedy.
Also, the small lessons of one ac-
cident warn against repeating It'll
particular failures. II I
Another flight will have rxdio
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BY DIR. HUGH s. CUMMING
Surgeon General, United States P1h-
lie Health SaPyica


lie Health Service
The word germ" means q seed.
Psychologists tell us that there arc
| germs so small that Il million OF
them could play tag on the head Of
| a pin and still have plenty Of room
TO grow and raise families.
A germ is Il rather large germ
when it would require n mere four
! or five thousand punched together
! to be barely visible to the naked
! eye.
The germ Of bubonic plague is Of
| fairly large organism. II takes on
| ly about forty thousand Of them laid
/, side by side to make an inch. 1t re-
quircs about sixty-five million ty-
phoid bacilli to make n drop of anti
typhoid vaccine.
A porcelain filter will strain out
such germs as these. but there are
disease germs so infinitely small
that under a little pressure they pass
through the closely grained porce-
lain filters with the same ease that
q gnat flies through an open win.
| dow.
Germs are known by wide variety
Of names such as bacteria, bacilli,
| cOrci, vibrios and so an.
Each group Of germs has its spe-
cial traits and habits, friends and
enemies. but all Of them are con.
nected in some way with the great
mystery called life. SO far as we
know, germs are the lowest form OF
life
They are so far down in creation
that il is often impossible to tell
whether a particular kind is Of ar
animal or vegetable nature and they
are so much alike that it is hard tt
tell them apart.
BY the use Of powerful micr0s
copes and by other means, scientist:
have identified many hundreds O.
different kinds of germs and have
become so we'll acquainted with then
best TO live, what they feed upon
ditions under which they thrive OF
die.
SCIENTIST FIRST
STUDIES GERMS
When an unknown disease crops
out somewhere, whether disease OF
human beings, Of animals, or OF
plants, the first act of the scientist
is to become acquainted with the
germ that may cause the disease.
He must learn all about it. where
it lives, how it grows, what it eats
and what food or chemicals disagree
with it. Once he becomes familiar
with its habits, he is ready to wage
war against it.
In order to become familiar with
any particular kind Of germ it must
be captured and held, in captivity un.
DER favorable conditions for growth
and development.
The florist takes out his plants
and transplants them to his green.
house where he may study and de.
velop them.
In the same way the bacteriologlst
takes disease germs embedded il
specimens from sick patients anC
transfers them to his laboratory
where they are kept in the proper
kind Of containers, nurturcd ant
studied.
When the bacteriologist sets ou
to study a germ he finds that he ha:
quite bit Of work ahead Of him
Before he can hope to accomplish
anything he must separate the par
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New York, Sept. pa few little
chunks out of the crazy, Jig-saw
puzzle i'm which New York is pat
termed:
On an elevated platform a shabby
artist drawing sketches of passeng-
ers in the passing trains. He
scratches away industriously. Others
become interested. He tells them he
is an art student. selling his sketches
to earn his way through school. He
will sell you one of his pencil
sketches for two-bits. You buy it
and find it is the crudest sort of
work, much like that of a child of
six would scrawl in a penny tablet.
Just another way to panhandle.
At Thirty-fourth and Broadway a
wrinkled old woman selling news
papers. engrossed in reading the in
side pages between the rather in
frequent rafting of pennies in her
cup. What interests her SO much
| You look over her shoulder and see
that with her scrawny finger she is
tracing the stock market reports. Is
she making enough with her news
papers sales and her appeal of in
trinity to dabble in Wall Street? Or
was she reduced to the necessity of
peddling papers for living through
some earlier catastrophe in speeula-
ton?
He is young fellow with long
hair, Il bow tie and dirty shirt
and collar. You may see him on the
Bowery carrying a violin ease and
going into 25-cent lodging house
for the night. All, you think, Il
struggling young musician who is
willing to live with the gutter rats if
he can just master his art! Some
day he will be another kreisler
And last night you could have seen
him on Forty-setond street in a dark
! doorway saving out the most fearful
tunes in the world, his violin out of
tune. his musicianship amounting to
little or nothing. Yes, another slick
way of panhandling.
And there is the man on Hester
| Street who sells eyeglasses from
a push cart. He is himself blind in
| one eye and almost blind in the other,
but he listens to his patrons detail
ing the symptoms of their ocular
affection and fumbles around through
his cases until he picks out pair
remedy their trouble.
! For three years the local papers
have been printing the picture of
a laundryman who is studying grand
| opera and who has been hailed at
Various times as another Caruso. But
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he still is a laundryman and insofar
as the records show has yet to make
public appearance.
who wears the best of tailored
clothes. They are always we'll
pressed and he has about him the
air of great atfluence and carries
himself with much dignity. He is
engaged in paying cash, and very
little of it, for old clothes.
JAMES W. DEAN.
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One beautiful thing about winter
is winter clothes have more pockets
to fill up with stuff.
In ST. Louis, man claims a wo-
man hit him with !. pick. We claim
that was dirty dig.
Mayor of Chicago says the city
needs more music Maybe, if the
gunmen were quiet, they could hear
more.
Thirty Chinese were jailed in Dos
ton in one day, but it wasn't for
sharpening collars.
Coolidge will visit Omaha. Must
I've great to be Il president so you
can rest up from your vacation.
Prince of Wales news. He got INTO
4 snow storm in Chile. What could
he expect in country with such a
name.
Tough steak is best because the
exercise of chewing one bite gives
you an appetite for the next.
You don't have to go to a show to
see SiameSe twins. You can find
them in autos parked on country
roads.
If you are a pedestrian, an auto
will kill you. If you own a car, you
work yourself to death supporting it.
Elephants live longer than people.
but they never worry about trying to
reduce their weight.
You can enjoy thinking you may
be rich some day. But the rich can
only fear they may be poor.
Tree fell on an artist in Phila-
delphia. Which is nothing to what
artists have done to trees.
Six men escaped from the Jail in
Seattle and now will have to worry
about keeping warm this winter.
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Six men escaped from the Jail il
Seattle and now will have to worr!
about keeping warm this winter.
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