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Correction and Clariication

In recent editorial entitled more Monopolies .
commenting on the testimony of Owen D. Young.
chairman of the board Of the General Electric Com
pany. before the senate interstate commerce COM
mttee certain inaccuracies appeared which desire
herewith TO correct.
The Electric Bond and Share Company, criticised
the editorial for its refusal to produce its operating
accounts in the federal trade commissions power
investigation. referred to General Electric
corporation. 1t is not, though it once was.
The history OF the relationship between the two
companies described report of the federal trade
commission as follows:
"on Dec 80, 1924. the directors of the General
Electric Company voted to distribute to its stock
holders its hodings in the Electric Bond and Share
Company prior to Dec. go 1924, the General
Electric Company owned all the common stock and
300 shares OF preferred stock OF the Electric Bond
and Share Company.
when the General Electric Company disposed Of
its holdings in the Electric Bond and Share Company
it did not sell its stock interest, but in effect dis
tributed it a dividend to its stockholders. The
active trading in the shares of these two companies
in about year and three-Quarters had reduced the
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REASON By Ff HAsbfs

TT would be emnently proper for President Hoovers
crime commission to find out why Governor Fisher
of Pennsylvania passed over many able and respected
leaders and appointed Grundy notorious lobbyist to
the United States senate for that crime against
decent government
It would seem as if this Nationalist government of
China were doomed for this latest rebellion led by
twenty-five heterogeneous and President Chang
not afford to buy all of them.
This A 3 Crouch of Texas charged with forgery
who arrested in New Zealand after having been
fugitive for thirteen years. should have returned to his
happy home and secured a pardon during the admin
istration of Ma Ferguson.
ONE is reminded that it is cold cold world by the
~ fact that st. Louis has traded Grover Cleveland
Alexander the veteran twirler who saved that world
series for ST. Louis by making Babe Ruth eat out of
his hand in that memorable ninth inning several years
ago.
While those Russian Communists were attacking
our consulate at Warsaw the other night their wives
were probably at home, taking in washing.
Professor Todd of Western university states that
the human brain stops growing at sixty years, but
that it continues to work fairly we'll now and then is
demonstrated by Oliver Wendell Holmes, aged 80
years. and the ablest member of the United States
preme court.
circuses buy old wornout horses for $40 head and
feed them to the animals
ANY man who would sell a faithful horse to be
butchered would sell member Of his family, If the
price were satisfactory and he could get away with it.
IF congress really plans to grant the Philippines their
independence it Is all right with but We should
not agree to stand guard over them for one single
minute. If they go, let them go on their own!
The Soviet government is almost as particular as
Mrs Cam for letter addressed Russia" will be
turned to the writer.
To pay due respect to the bear in his present make
up. you must call him the United Socialist States of
Russia.
But if the letter had q check In it, are inclined
to think they would back up and let it in.
We certainly busy with the island Of Haiti
Santo Domingo
We have sent a thousand marines to the island to
save the life of the president OF Haiti and we've
brought the president Of Santo Domingo to Johns
Hopkins hospital to save his bacon by an operation.
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Questions and AnSzge1s

How many times has West Point
beaten Annapolis in football since
1928?
Three times. The scores for the
games are as follows: 1928, Army.
0: Navy, o. 1924, Army, IL: Navy. 0.
1925. Army, 10; Navy, 8. 1926, Army,
81; Navy, 81. 1927, Army, II; Ma
Wy, 8.
How old is Edgar A. Guest? Where
does he live?
He is 48 years old. His address Is
17,471 Hamilton drive, Detroit.
Has Ramsay Macdonald a title
of nobility?
No; he is cornnoner.
When did the Little Theatre
movement begin?
It began in Europe with the
Theatre Libere of Andre Antoine
at Paris in 1887. The Moscow Art
Theatre of Constantine Staniselav-
sky started in 1890. The first Little
Theatres in America we're estab-
lished in 1911-1912. Maurice
Brownies Little Theatre in Chicago
and Mrs. Lyman Gales Toy Thea
ire in Boston were founded in that
season. Both have now ceased func-
tioning. The Washington Square
players In New York began in 1915;
the Arts and Crafts Theatre Of Ds-
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Adrenalin and the Soul

We shake hands with friend who seems to be
in the most robust health He declares that he never
felt better in his life. few hours later we learn
that he has been stricken couple of days and
view his corporal remains for the last time in
casket. What is it which has made the vigorous COM
panion of yesterday a pallid and lfeless corpse?
The problem of death has mystifed man from time
nmemorial. Rich and somber primitive rites attest
the varied interpretations of the dread event among
primitive peoples To the orthodox Christian life and
death product of the entry and abandonment of
the body by the immortal soul.
To the modern scientific physiologist life and death
are matter of chemical states. Death comes when
the marvelously complicated and decately organized
chemical laboratory which is the human body ceases
to function
Discussion of the perennial problem of what sepa-
rates life from death will be promoted inteigenty by
the recent discoveries of potent chemical substances
produced by human glands. These seem to possess
almost miraculous power to revive the dying if to
restore the dead to life. Among the best known of
these chemicals is adrenan the secretion of two little
glands on the poles of our kidneys.
In Rochester the other day DR.. Slater, chief Of
the medical staff Of the Eastman Kodak Company,
performed remarkable feat in apparently raising a
man quite literally from the dead Speaking of one
of the Eastman employees, George H. Austin, he said
"He was dead all right. Respiration and heart
action had stopped and the reexes of the pupils had
ceased and the face had taken the ashen color of
death"
The doctor injected adrenalin into Austin's heart
and he was revived Austin described his experience
of death and resurrection follows 81 only know
that the sensation was the same if had tainted
and was revived" Where the soul between the
time of Austins death and his restoration to life?
Dramatic situations like the above are likely to
provoke interesting and realistic discussions Of
the theological questions relating to the SOUL death
and immortality than the quotation of of texts
from the authoritative writer's of the past who knew
naught of the wonders of our age.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Ulcer of Stomach Is Serious Menace

From a study of his records, DR..
Alvarez is convinced that insurance
examiners are not likely to detect
ulcers of the stomach or duodenum
in the type of examination that is
usually given for life insurance.
He feels that in every 100000
there are at least $4,000 who
probably have such ulcers, where
as the insurance examiner is likely
to detect only $3.50 cases.
Causes OF Death from gastric Ill
GER, outside of such deaths as oc-
cur in operation, are rupture of
the ulcer into the abdominal cav
ity and bleeding.
From IS to 30 per cent of people
with ulcers at some time Or an
other develop severe hemorrhages
and Yomit blood. In about per
cent of all cases of ulcer, bleeding
is sufficiently serious to cause
death.
Occasionally ulcers of the stomach
and duodenum become the place
for cancer and this risk must also
be considered.
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AS a result of his survey of the
situation DR.. Alvarez is convinced
that people with ulcers are not fit
subjects for health insurance or life
insurance.
Great care must be taken to dis
tinguish those with duodemal and
gastric ulcers, because operations
on the stomach are more danger
Gus than those on the duodenum,
and the stomach ulcers are more
likely to develop cancer.
People beyond 40 years of age who
suffer a great deal with indigestion
are the people most likely to have
these conditions. Indeed the
vast majority of patients who have
these ulcers are the nervous, high
tension, go-getter types, particular
ly frequent in recent years in Amer
lean business life.
Ulcers in women usually are as
ISOLATED with the diseases of the
gall-bIadder and such women not
infrequently are operated on for
appendices and for trouble with
their pelvic organs.
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troit in 1916 and the Princetown
players began in a summer colony
at Cape Cod, Mass, in 1915.
Has Thomas Edison any chill
dren?
He had three children by his first
wife, Marion, Thomas and Will
liam, and two by his second wife,
Madeline and Charles.
Who was the first President of the
United States to visit Canada dur
ing his term of office?
President Harding. He went to
British Columbia.
Are divorces granted in Russia by
mutual consent?
Yes, but if one of the parties en-
ters an objection, court proceedings
are held. Alimony is payable to
either party to the marriage, hus-
band or wife, if incapacitated for
work. There are rigid requirements
for care Of children.
Why do some artesian wells pro-
duce hot water and some cold
water?
Because the water in some comes
from sources deeper in the earth
than others. The interior of the
earth is hot and only the outer
crust Is cool.
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Interest in Public Affairs

A S a matter of fact, if more Of
L n our wealthy men paid attention
to politics, more of them would be
elected to Office.
The trouble is that they are too
busy with their own, affairs.
But while they may shy at Of
fetal careers, many of them take
a deep and practical interest in pub
lis matters. ~
This is proved by what they have
done for our institutions of higher
education, charities and social &C
tiVities.
Probably no nation on earth ever
benefited to such extent from phil
antllropy as has the United States
Of America.
Newton D. Baker believes that this
interest in public welfare eventually
will develop a great interest in poll
tics on the part of our weather.
citizens.
The idea Is not only in keeping
with history. but with the natural
tendencies of human nature.
Alarge portion Of the leisure class
created by prosperity generally has
found an outlet for its surplus cash
and energy in efforts of constructive
or cultural character.
The Renaissance, for instance,
was due not only to great artists,
but to rich men willing to give them
the necessary support.
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Quicksilver

THERE have been plenty Of such
Il minds and more than plenty
of use of that description, but when
1 would like to pay my tribute to
the kind of intelligence which is
silver and quick, and, in addition,
has the highly distinguished capa-
city to break into scores of little
globules and run off into the most
unexpected small pockets. in unpre-
djctable directions, what in the world
can I say but QUICKSILVER"
Bolitho begins as cohering mass,
breaks apart and scempers off lit
orally like Leacock's horSeman, rid
ing rapidly in every direction" and
presently reassembles again, looking
the very soul of mild innocence.
Now naturally this type Of crea-
ture is going to have his good and
his bad. Some of his quicksilver
pseudo-pods will return full, some
empty.
Some Of his globules will hover
with their Examinations over rich,
dark places and some will bobble
on an idle crack.
That is why Twelve Against the
Gods" is as uneven a book as you'd
hope to find, even though Bolitho
has gone through the emotions of
unifying 1t by making it the history
of twelve adventures.
The truth of the matter probably
is that either some of his twelve
we're badly chosen or some of them
we're as mystifying to Bolitho as to
the rest of us.
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WAGON HitChing

OF course, there is a lot less dis
" grace in falling to scale Mt.
Everest than in failing to scale Mt.
Tom. Bolitho occasionally does
muddle around.
But If he does seem to see as
through a glass darkly, he obviously
is trying to decipher that which, If
Il confronted most of us, would
make us say, promptly, Now, where
did have that last gin?"
VIII Rogers once said, when the
prince of Wales was endorsed on
water jump, well, all right, but
IL was a Jump that most Of us
couldn't even swim"
However, this is true, that though
Twelve Against the Gods" may
have its ups and downs, its ups are
worth anybody's most respectful
consideration in fact, nothing
better is to be found anywhere in
these parts or times. Ard, as for
the preface, it is simply superb.
Don't call yourself really educated
until you have read it, unless it
so happens that you know as much
as that already, which is always
possible.
lcopyssshA. Isss. tw me xsnsss
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identity Of holdings from 100 per cent to about 70 per

identity OF holdings from 100 per cent to about 70 per
cent
From these facts and the negative character of
other evidence available it that the manage
ment of the Electric Bond and Share Company may
be, as claimed, practically independent"
The editorial also interpreted Mr.. Young's testi-
mony expressing desire for a monopoly in behalf
of the General Electric Company. AS matter of fact
his plea for monopoly confined solely to COM
muncation companies, telegraph, telephone cable and
radio The General Electric manufacturing concern
IS in competitive field, its chief competitor being
Westinghouse
One paragraph of the editorial contained this
wording:
He (Mr. Young went on, however, to dismiss the
possibility Of government control of communications
inasmuch as there is no large public sentiment de-
manding it. The word ownership should have been
substituted for the word control" the Young testi-
mony being appeal for controlled monopoly of COM
munications
He stressed uniflcation the prime necessity say
ing that he would favor government ownership only
if the objective could be achieved in no other way
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| ANNIVERSARY
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MILAN DECREE
December IL

ON Dec. II, 1907, Napoleon issued
" his famous Milan decree as a
part Of his commercial policy to
shut England out from all connec-
ton with the continent of europe.
BY the Milan decree. any vessel, Of
whatever nation, that had been
searching by an English ship. or had
submitted to be sent on a voyage to
England, or paid any duty to the
English government. was TO be de-
clared denationalized and treated as
English.
Napoleon's policy, known as the
continental system, had begun with
the Berlin decree in 1906, declaring
the British Isles in s state Of block
ade and prohibiting all commerce
or correspondence with them.
Every Englishman found in n
country occupied by French troops
or by their allies, was declared a
prisoner of war; all merchandise
belonging to an Englishman was
made lawful prize; and all trade in
English goods was entirely pro-
hibited.
AS a result many branches Of
manufacture sprang up on the
continent.
On the other hand, price OF for
eign goods rose to an extraordi-
nary height, the daily comfort Of
the middle class was seriously AZ
fected, and the then prosperous
American trade was practically
ruined.
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underpaid prison guards that they
should live in constant peril of their
lives.
Even now there are some persons
in the community who counsel an
even greater harshness in the Grim
inal code and in the treatment of
men convicted. This seems to me
inexplicable folly. Palpably, harsh
ness has failed
The very voices of those who
counsel severity and still more Sc
verify are drowned out by the rat
tat-tat of machine guns as inmates
make some despairing rush, con-
tent to die rather than endure their
prison burdens.
To other books recommended
from time to time in this column,
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Earthquakes
nREsENT-DAY geologlsi

DRESENT-DAY biologists, how
l. ever. have shown that the earth
could not have a molten interior
and continue to exist
The moon raises huge tides in the
oceans. 1t also causes tides in the
land. These are very slight because
of the rigidity of the earth's crust.
However, they have been measured
with delicate scientific instruments
and there is no question about their
reality.
If the earth's interior were mol
ten, the moon would raise such ire
mendous tides within it that the
earth's crust would be unable to
stand the strain. 1t would be
cracked in thousand places and
the earth destroyed.
Another and quite conclusive
proof that the earth does not have
a molten interior, is the density of
the earth as a whole.
1t is possible to calculate the
weight or mass of the earth from
measurements of the strength of
the earJn graVlGaClOndl pun.
Knowing the mass and volume Oh
the earth, it then is possible to call
culate the density.
Calculations show that while the
surface rocks have a density OF
about "a times that of water, the
earth as whole has a density Of
about 515 times that of water. In
other words. the earth as a whole
is twice as dense as the rocks COM
prising its surface.
The way in which earthquake
waves travel through the interior OF
the earth also is evidence that the
interior of the earth is solid. These
waves possess characteristics which
could not be transmitted through a
liquid medium.
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Iron Core

CTRANGE as it may seem, the
~ present generally accepted the
cry of the earths interior was ar
rived at chiefly by studying the
heavens. 1t is based largely on a
study Of meteorites.
Every one has seen Shooting
stars" Scientifically, they are
known as meteors. They are not
stars at all, but small chunks of
rocks.
They enter the earth's atmosphere
from outer space. Friction causes
them to turn white-hot and melt,
AS a result they appear as a lurni-
nous streak in the sky,
Occasionally. however, a large me-
teor enters the earth's atmosphere
and is not entirely consumed by
friction. A piece falls to the ground.
It then is known as a neteorite.
Meteorites are divided into three
classes. Some are iron. Others are
chiefly heavy rock known as per-
idotite. Still others are a mixture
of iron and peridotite.
On the assumption that the me-
teorite and the earth are both COM
posed of material originally hurled
out of the sun, many scientists have
assumed that the interior of the
earth must resemble the composition
of the meteorites
This theory, known as the from
core theory, has been developed
largely by Drs. L. H. Adams and
H. S. Washington Of the geophysi-
cal laboratory.
They assume that the earth has
an iron core 1000 miles in diameter.
This is surrounded by a layer OF
peridotite. -Four chemical elements
make up perioditite-silicon, mag
netisn1, iron and oxygen.
Density of the earth and the rate
at which earthquake waves travel
through it support the iron-core
theory.
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BY DR.. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

TIME person who has an ulcer of
Il the stomach or duodenum is
carrying around with him con-
stantly a weak spot which may
break through into the abdominal
cavity. When this happens there
is prompt danger of peritonitis and
death.
Recently DR.. Walter c. Alvarez
considered the risk Of giving life in
surance to people with ulcers Of the
stomach. Out of $1,000 people who
were examined with the X-ray and
who had complained Of indigestion,
1877 per cent we're found to have de-
formities of the duodenum, which
is the part of the intestines i'm
mediately after the stomach.
These deformities are produced by
ulcers which have healed. One and
one-half per cent of the $4,000 peo-
pie had ulcers Of the stomach; '0.3
per cent had ulcers of the stomach
and doudenum.
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SCIENCE
Present-Day GeoIogiSt Hare
Built Up the Theory That
the Earth Has an Iron
Core.
By DAVID DIETZ

PROFESSOR HARLOW SHAP-
L LEY has suggested that great
shaft be sunk into the earth as a
means of extending our knowledge
of the earth's structure and COM
position
He thinks it might be possible at
this time to go down three miles,
more than twice the depth OF the
deepest mine.
Such a shaft would be a great
aid to the geologist in studying the
crust of the earth. But it probably
would not help him to understand
the interior Of the earth, unless it
could be carried to a much greater
depth.
Biologists believe that the crust
OF the earth is about thirty-six miles
thick. It would be necessary,
therefore, to carry the shaft to
greater depth than this to explore
the true interior of the earth.
1t is a known fact that the tenn
perature increases at the rate Of
about ! degree Fahrenheit for every
sixty feet Of depth. This, of course.
would be one of the greatest OBJ
stacles in carrying the shaft to any
great depth.
Biologists, however, do not be-
lieve today that this rise in temper
allure continues right to the center
Of the earth.
They think that the rapid rise in
temperature stops at depth of
about fifty miles and that the tenn
perature rises more slowly from this
point down.
At one time, it was assumed that
the rise in temperature went on to
the center Of the earth and that
the interior of the earth, therefore,
was molten.
The old idea was that the earths
crust was thin shell surrounding
an interior of molten material. Vol
canic eruptions we're thought TO be
caused by material rising from the
molten interior.
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TIN CrTNTC mn NTTS D. HAYWOOD
/ / OLGV1O " 1VlG ~ BROUN

please add now William Bolitho's
twelve Against the Gods"
1t is not the height of originality
to say that William Bolitho has q
mind like quicksilver, because that
ancient phrase always has been
used to describe the mind that was
both silver and quick.
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America Puts Her Faith IN
SportSmanship and Does
Not Hold Mere Possession
Of Money Against q Man.
SAYS:

THERE are twelve millionaires in
L the United States senate, yet
Nicolai Lenin died in the belief
that a rich man could not be elect
ed to Office in this country.
The curious part Of it is that two
Of the millionaires regard them
selves as near Bolsheviks.
One is Couzens of Michigan, who
seldom votes in accordance with the
supposed feelings of orthodox
wealth, while the other is Capper
of Kansas, prominent in the farm
bloc.
1t goes without saying that pos
session of a million dollars or even
several million does not imply what
it once did.
Still, if class consciousness played
the part Lenin ascribed to it in this
country. there would be fewer than
twelve millionaires in the senate,
America may be suspicious of
great wealth, but not to the point
where its possession is taken as
prirna facie evidence of crooked
ness.