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TINE author chose to give the
i greatest amount of space in his
book to the topics which he thought
would be most interesting to the
layman. Consequently, the last
third of the book is devoted to what
he calls the Science of Today"
This has necessitated a k~ief
treatment of the earlier develop
ments. In fact, the author brings
the reader to the beginning of the
sixteenth century with the first
twenty-three pages of the book.
Such treatment, of course, is
necessarily sketchy, as any one will
realize who ponders over Sarton's
839 pages from Homer to Omar"
From the sixteenth century on,
the author discusses the great
names of science and discusses
their work in considerable detail.
The great astronomers, physicists,
chemists, biologists and biologists
are paraded before us.
His chapters on the science of
today are very complete, including
discussions of modern astronomical
research, relatively, radio, weather
forecasting, synthetic chemistry,
atomic theory, and those problems
of the chemistry of life which are
grouped under the heading of bio
chemistry.
The book by no means eXhausts
the field. There still is room for
many popular books on the history
of science.
The book, however, is an impor-
tant one and an excellent one, and
merits the careful attention of in
telligent readers.
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: DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

oped a device for Photographic a
normal man while asleep.
Beside his bed a clock was placed
and the motion picture camera used
in the investigation revealed the
position of the patient and the time
at which he happened to be in that
position; at the same time an au-
tomato device recorded the change
in position and the time at which it
took place.
Not only were records made of
the normal man, but also of pa
tients in tuberculosis sanatorium,
and of young children, so that in
all $50 people were studied.
The most typical of the healthy
sleepers changed from one position
to another between twenty and
forty-fve times in any night of
eight hours sleep. The shortest
period between changes of position
was two and one-half minutes.
Practically half of the poStures
that the sleeper assumed were held
for less than five minutes; about
one-fifth, from five to ten minutes;
about one tenth, from ten to fifteen
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The Sense of Mystery

There is something about the spectacle OF a man
flying around the earth that stirs old memories.
1t is impossible to review the amazing fight OF
Major Kingsford-Smith and the Southern Cross
without casting back in the mind to other trips
around the world-to Magellan, and Drake, and the
other hard-bitten adventures of old days who
refused to be afraid of unknown seas
Magellan set out with four rickety ships and got
one back to Spain. giving his life in the Philip
pines as a climax to cruise of unimaginable hard
ship and peril Drake lodged Spanish cruisers,
doubled Cape Horn and came back with his ship
crammed with gold and jewels.
The others Of that era who followed in his track
had tall tales to spin when they dropped anchor in
home waters again. and the story of the marvels
they had seen was equaled fully by the story Of the
dangers they had undergone.
There couldn't be a more dramatic contrast;
Magellan and Drake in cranky. snub-nosed cookie
shells painfully Keeling of the miles on an almost
endless Journey, and this young Australian sailing
through the air at 100 miles an hour, endangered
chiefly by the possibility that his compass might
90 wrong and let him fly about in circles instead
Of hitting the mark.
The old-tiners had slower. more laborious job
Kingsford-Smith went faster. The risks he faced
were more sudden, less practicable. The news
travelled ahead of him. Magellan went over the
months: Kingsford-Smith was schedule almost
to the minute with crowds waiting for him at every
stopping place.
The world obviously has taken to moving some
where at speedy clip. Just where it may be bound,
however and whether the change is going to be for
better for worse other questions to which the
answer isn't always quite clear.
Kingsford-Smiths fight Symbolzes the marvellous
growth in communications that has come since the
old days The isolation. the loneliness. the infinite
distances that separated man and man in Magelan's
day. are gone forever. The peoples of the earth
being drawn closer and closer together. We are get
ting much more familiar with each other and with
the world we live in.
Indeed. we may bet getting too familiar. For
Magellan, climbing up the Pacific was like a man
on . strange planet He could expect anything
Golden cities and islands Of enchantment were
within the range of his possibilities. He had the
eense Of wonder, the sense Of strange unimagnahle
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Scientists Should Get More
Credit in Future Histories,
and Strutting Warriors
Less.
THE history of science is begin
Il ming to come into its own. AS
the present age becomes more and
more scientific, more dependent up
on machines and the products OF
scientific laboratories. new view
is being taken Of the past.
Many authorities are beginning to
think that we have made a mistake
about the important people OF the
past-that the present owes more to
Calico, for example. than it does
to some strutting king who fought
some wars and pushed out the
boundaries of his kingdom by few
hundred square miles and got his
name in all the history books.
A Harvey studying the circulation
of the blood, a LeeJwenhoek polish
ing the lenses of his crude micro
scope, a Gilbert bordering the be-
havior of magnets, Lavoisier seek
ing the nature of combustion, did
more for the world than scheming
politicians and intriguing statesmen.
Perhaps the day may come-who
knows?-when school children will
learn the date Of the publication of
Newton's Principal" as well as the
date of the Battle of Hastings.
A beginning has been made with
the publication of a number of ex-
cellent books on the history of SCI
ence in recent years.
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Readers of The Times Voice Vices

tournaments, plenty Of good games,
reading hours, sand building, etc.
Mr.. Mcclure, our director, was a
good pal to all his help and was
respected and liked by all the chill
dren, instructors and matrons. He
inspired one to do his best, not by
bossism, but by kindness and good
will. We all worked for him to
make our playground success.
KATHERINE MORLAN,
EX-matron.
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Questions and
AnS1OerS

On what date did Good Friday
fall in 1918?
March 90.
What is the name of the Presi-
dents yacht?
The presidential yacht Mayflower
has been withdrawn from service,
and President Hoover has none.
What is the capital of China?
Marking.
What does the eagle signify as
an emblem?
Might and courage.
What child actor played in the
motion picture Thunder and how
old is he?
Wally Albright Jr., who is about
4 years old.
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REASONS
FREDERICK
LANDS

TMPERIALISTIC nations do justice to those they
i govern only when forced to do so, John Bull now
offering the Hindoos promise of ultimate Self-gov
eminent under the British crown, thanks to the
threat involved in Mahatma Gandhis rebellion
After the Battle of Saratoga in our revolution,
Mr.. Bull offered forefathers everything under
the sun if they would only stay under the British
the compromise, but there one gentleman named
Washington who refused to take anything short of
absolute independence.
A CABLE from Paris announces that while Cor
I n sica has the reputation of being land of
bandits, she is in fact the most law-abiding of
countries.
However this does not mean that Corsica has
reformed; it means that Corsica has shipped her
bandits to Chicago.
There's no sense in Judge Marcus Kayanaugh's
statement that capital punishment is needed in great
cities, but should be discontinued in small towns.
According to Kavanaugh, John Wilkes Booths
precious life should have been spared had he only
asSassnated Lincoln in some small county seat.
How unspeakably tame our national life would be
were it not for the daily chronicng of the activities
of the Capone brothers!
Before Commander Macmillan departed from
Maine for his thirteenth conquest of the far north
he announced that he was going to start three schools
TO educate Eskimo children.
We question the wisdom of it, for they're living
on the fat of the land as it is.
rTNHE leaders of countries may make alliances but
Il these do not make the peoples of such countries
love each other France and Poland are allies but the
other night there vicious fight in Cherbourg,
France. between French and Polish sailors and dur
ing the World war there was fight whenever the
American and British sailors got together.
Things are coming pretty easy for Dwight Morrow,
being nominated for United States senator and elected
grandfather all in one week.
Had that baby come to town few days earlier
Morrow would have carried New Jersey by million.
It was another great blow to our national pride
when Camera won from Godfrey "a 3 foul
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A Very Useful Citizen

In the death of DR.. Harvey w. Wiley the United
States has lost extremely useful and able citizen
Every inhabitant of the United States for the last
two decades has had purer better food than he might
have had if DR.. Wiley had not lived. That when
you stop to think about it, represents quite an
achievement. Few men can hope to serve their fell
low citizens any better.
In recent years DR.. Wiley was no. as much in
the public eye as formerly-proof in itself, that a
great part Of his sbors had been crowned with sue
cess His sensational fight for pure foods had been
largely victorious. That what put him out of the
limelight. In ITSELF it great testimonial to the
high value of his services.
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How MUDONu
HnOwGW.Rhh?
FIVE QUESTIONS a DAN
ON FAMILIAR PASSAGES

l. Who was Salome?
2. Complete IF God be for
us :"
3. Who whote In thy light shall
we see light?
a. What prophet was thrown into
lions den, and why?
s. Who said "By their fruits We
shall know them?
Answers to Yesterdays Queries:
/. Blessed is the nation whose
God is the Lord; Psalm 1912.
2. For 430 years; Exodus 1910.
3. The power of the tongue;
James 3:5.
4. Seven years; I Kings 6:38.
5. above all things, and des-
perately wicked; jeremiah 1873.
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NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:

Mann q Poor Devil Who
Should Haze Died. Accord
ing to the Card linden Sys-
TEN, Has Been SaUed By the
Family Doctor.
THE family doctor is coming
Il back, if one can believe the New
York Medical Weekly. the guide,
philosopher, and friend who knows
local politics as we'll as pills, and
who is able to tell what ails Johnny
or Sis in nine cases out of ten, be-
cause he attended mother and dad
when they we're children.
The family doctor certainly has
his place in the scheme of things.
in spite of the way he has been
sidetracked by the thousand-bed
hospital and endowed clinic.
Though he may be little out Of
OF date when 1t comes to cataloglng
bugs, he knows the people with
whom he deals and that their pecu-
liaritieS are of great consequence
in the battle to preserve health.
Rules, formulate, and actuarial
tables may be all right in striking
an average, but they often go wrong
in individual cases.
A man in York, England, recently
celebrated his 102d birthday, though
he was rejected by an insurance
company more than sixty years ago.
The chances are that family
doctor pulled him over some of the
rough spots.
Whether that is the case, a fam
lily doctor has saved many a poor
devil who should have died accord
ing to the card index system.
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Shows Originality

ATOR is the family doctor the
IN unoriginal bungler that some
people think.
In the great dispute which arose
over the discovery of ether, when
Morton and his rivals were fight
ing for a reward of 100000 at the
hands of congress, it developed
that q family doctor in Georgia
had used ether as an anesthetic
long before any of them.
Like most family doctors, how
ever, he lacked the time and in
clination to strut his stuff. 1t was
enough that ether helped him to
help his patients Besides, he took
it for granted that other doctors
were equally skillful and alert, and
probably had done the same.
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The Fourth and Fraud

Before citizens of Indianapolis fire too
many skyrockets to celebrate their right to
rule themselves, they should read the re-
port of the grand jury on the recent pri-
maries.
That report charged with great definite
ness that frauds and corruption had been
rampant, perhaps to an extent where the
will of the voters in both parties had been
nullifed.
Votes were cast in the names Of dead
men. They were cast in the names Of fictl-
Gus persons from addresses found to be
vacant lots the totals in some precincts were
greater than the known number of qualified
voters.
The insignificant part of the report is
that no one is punished, even accused. No
definite charge is filed against the officials
in the one precinct where they were accused
of being caught red handed in violations OF
the law. Either the prosecutor or the grand
Jury has the power to file such charges.
This Fourth of July celebrates the indie
pendence of the United States from gov
eminent which was not of their own choos-
ing. The founders shot down the theory of
the divine right of certain men to rule them
through the accident of birth. Many gave
their lives to the thesis that men should be
governed only by those of their own selec-
ton.
A King George, ruling by divine right,
IS no more obnoxious to that theory than
George who rules by fraud and corruption
or for that matter, Joe, Charley,
Harry or any other who overthrows the viii
of the people by trickery.
The use of fraud and corruption at the
ballot. either in primary or election, is as
revolutionary of the system OF self govern
ment as the battle of Bunker Hill was a re-
volt against monarchy.
That grand jury makes report OF this
character and then fails to indict presents
a monstrous situation. 1t means that self
government has surrendered to government
by fraud 1t means that democracy is but
name and not reality, that representative
government is an echo of other days and no
longer the voice of the people.
It will not do to say that the failure was
due to a lack of funds, and that the inquiry
was blocked by the county councils failure
in that direction.
1t will not do to say that special prose-
cutor was named to supplant the regular
official.
If those frauds existed, and of that there
is no doubt, every official and perhaps every
citizen, has failed.
Where were the election officials while
these frauds were being perpetrated?
Where was the prosecutor with his
greatly augmented staff of volunteers?
Instead of a celebration with frecrackers,
there should today be gatherings of out
ragged citizens in every park, dedicating
themselves anew to the faith of the fathers
or supinely confessing that they have sur
rendered the heritages of those who knew
the meaning of liberty and understood the
divinity of the common man.
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>%ZZEfXNSS
H7doAEf B1T|t7eH
H49Et8t
COOLmGE'S BIRTH
V,,Iu A

July 4
0N July 4, 1872, Calvin Coolidge,
~ thirtieth President of the
United States, was born at Plym-
outh, VT.
After graduation from Amherst
college, where he earned reputa-
ton as a hard worker, Coolidge
studied law with a Northampton
firm, and two years later began to
practice.
Because his employers were in
terested in politics, Coolidge soon
found his natural inclination.
Coolidge readily was elected to
various Offices in Northampton I'M
til he became its mayor. Following
his election as state senator, his
political career in Massachusetts,
progressed by regular steps.
AS Governor of Massachusetts, he
attracted nationwide notice by his
firm stand during the Boston police
strike. 1t was at that time he gave
utterance to his famous phrase:
There is no right to strike against
the public safety by anybody, any,
where. at any time"
At the Republican national con-
vention in 1920 he was nominated
for President, with Warren G.
Harding as the presidential nomi-
nee. They were elected by great
ma ority. On Harding's death. Aug.
2, 1928, Coolidge became President.
He was reelected in 1924.
His administration was one Of
marked governmental economy,
which, together with general pros
perity, permitted drastic reduction
of income taxes.
Since his retirement from Office
on March 4, 1929, he has become an
insurance official and has devoted
considerable Of his time to writing.
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THERE are all sort of opinions
J. as to the way in which people
want to sleep.
Even the United States army
urges soldiers to lie fiat, sit straight,
stand tall, and during sleep not to
pull up in the middle. Various
medical authorities recommend that
one avoid sleeping on the back be-
cause this has been associated with
bad dreams.
It has been argued that one
should not sleep on the left side be-
cause this interferes with free &C
ton of the heart and requires the
stomach to pump its contents
against the force of gravity.
The vast majority of medical au-
thorities tell people to sleep in any
position in which one can sleep most
comfortably and sleep best.
To determine just how people
sleep and in what positions, investi-
gators in the Mellon Institute devel-
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glory, ahead of him. And Kingsford- Smith-like all
travellers today-knew precisely where he was going
and what he would see there. There were no fables
to explore Great fier that he is, he can not pilot
his monopane to any spot that has not been photo
graphed and described already.
We may have lost more than we think in this
connection. The feeling of mystery and amazement
that envroned the ancients has left forever. Its
loss has not been entirely good for us.
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How can cod liver oil stains be
u =. L.

How can cod liver oil stains be
removed from clothing?
They may be removed easily when
fresh from practically all materials
by freely sponging with carbon
tetachloride, then washing the gar
ment thoroughly in warm soapsuds.
1t is important that the application
be made as soon as possible after
the garment is stained because in
short time it is extremely diff
ficult to eradicate it.
Who sang keeping Myself Just
fer You" in the film version OF ~Hit
the Deck?
Polly Walker.
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Editor Times-About the quickest
and most complete way OF getting
an idea before the public is to put 1t
in a Scripps-Howard paper, so that
is Why 1 am submitting to you my
idea of how partially to solve the
unemployment question.
If all heads of business znstitu-
tions, both large and small, would
discharge all married women Who
have able-bodied husbands TO sup
port them, and give those positions
to married men who have families
to support, there would be fewer
unemployed men and less strain on
the charity organizations.
I know several married wor'en
making better than 500 a month
holding positions that men should
have who can't find work and have
families to support. These same
women boast of the fact that they
would work for $50 a month if their
wages were lowered that much, be-
cause their income, whatever it is,
is all clear to them, for the hus-
bands salary pays the expenses.
The majority of these women
spend their wages on clothes and
other things that could be gotten
along without if they we're at home,
where they belong. While they are
using this money foolishly, some
other woman or child is going with
out food and only enough clothing
to cover their nakedneSS.
These women are lowering the
wage scale for men, because they
will work for almost anything that
is offered them and business men
will hire them to cut down over
head. The business house that does
not sell a commodity for women
loses every dollar it pays them in
salaries as far as getting it back into
the business concerned, whereas the
married man distributes his salary
around and every type of business
is benefited by it. Does the ether
business gain or lose by employing
married women at practically Moth
ing and cause the money to go INTO
the other mans business?
Women marry men to be sup
ported and given home, and their
place is to stay in this home ano
let the men make the living. The
progress of the world depends upon
the people of today raising chill
dren to take their places when they
are gone, and it takes certain
amount of young blood to keep
things moving. These women who
get married and continue to work on
starvation wages certainly are not
helping to increase the population
any for the future.
The more money that is paid out
in wages. the more merchandise is
bought by the working man, END
business conditions will improve for
everybody. So, Mr.. Business Man,
wake up and give the working man
a chance and you will be ewar1ed
in more ways than one.
Am I right?
G. M. WICKER.
Charlottesville, Ind.
| Editor Times-I was disappointed
| to know Of your stand in regard to
the soldiers pension bill now pend
ing. as am quite sure that we all
would be better off if every soldier
with an honorable service record
would be granted small monthly
pension, say So. Those who did not
serve would have a fair chance to
get their bit every time the boys
were paid of.
Uncle Sam, when he needed SOL
diers again, could depend on them
| if they in turn could feel that they
would be treated fairly when the war
was over and not have to be killed,
or nearly sosshnd then have to prove