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Average Baby Triples Weight in Year

There are some racial stocks, such
as the Japanese, that tend to be
short; there are other racial stocks
which tend to be long and angular.
Since the increase in length is
governed by heredity and constitu-
ton, the length may continue while
the weight lags behind, particular
ly if the diet is unsatisfactory and
insufficient. If an adequate diet is
given, the weight will pick up
rapidly in proportion to the length.
1t is, of course, understood that
the length of the child may be in
f1uenced by factors controlling the
growth of the long bones, such as a
sufficient amount of vitamin D and
the effects of the glands of internal
secretion.
In the presence of an insufficient
amount of ultraviolet ray or Of
vitamin D, the long bones do not
grow satisfactorily.
There is tendency to develop
ment Of bowlegs and obviously with
bowlegs the infant will be shorter
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Simplicity Penalty

THIS is puzzling to me. II one
4 uses such dirty words as hap
pen to be casual and common, then
he is obscene and subject to the
punishments prescribed by law, but
artful folk who can think up fancy
names. escape scot free.
I deny that this is fair. The man
who has mulled over his phrases
and polished them seems to me by
a great margin more obscene, since
he evidently has taken delight in
the creation of his metaphors and
hopes to arouse a leWd thrill OF rec
ignition upon the part Of his read
ers.
Once upon a time, a good many
years ago, I was employed by a
minded morning newspaper
which undo ook a campaign against
the immora. yies of the great city.
In particular, the staff was set to
wedding out commercialized vice.
Unfortunately, the principles of the
chief owner we're so lofty that he
objected to evil words as well as evil
deeds, and the reporters assigned to
the crusade were reduced to great
difficulties.
On the one hand, it was their
task to point out that conditions in
New York were extremely horrid,
but in the telling they must take
care never to hit upon single word
which could give offense.
Even such a sedate biblical noun
as "harlot" was absolutely under the
ban. But at last the chief Of the
journalistic investigators hit upon
scheme which worked out salts
factorily.
He had to make several words do
the work of one, and it was finally
decided that each wicked woman
whom we were trying to drive OF
the streets and out Of the dens OF
New York was "a member Of the
scarlet army"
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Nothing to Worry About This Winter

scientists ALWAYS are taking the Joy out of life For
como million or more years man has been struggling
~ cot enough TO eat He has been hard put to it to
ward of individual starvation and national famine
ant science has revoutonized our control over the
food nroblen through improved methods OF producing
storing and using food. we seemed to be on the eve
Of moving the food problem into secondary position
and devotng our best thought to the supergastronoc
things of life.
BUT having put the skeleton of famine In the
closet we are faced by the specer of the lat aoy
in the circus DR. Alonzo Taylor Of Stanford uni
versty tells us that the great curse Of the race IN tne
future is going be the danger Of eating too mucn
sneaking at the University of Pennsylvania, he said
Instead of worry over how to feed the world
mans worry soon will be how to keep the world from
being overfed Scientific methods of farming have
increased the crop production, and at the same time
the Use Of machinery on the farm has decreased the
number Of animals to be fed which turn increases
the world food surplus.
Likewise the worlds population soon will become
stationary. so there will be fewer people to feed
Obesity and overweight will be the nutrition problem
of the future
The fellow on the breadne, reading this warning
to the race against overeatng, can reassure Dr. lay
Tor that there is nothing to worry about on TINS score
inst now AS long as unsklled aborers in the Unteo
states, when continually employed, average ABOUT
81 600 wear in wages and in many important trades
only from $500 to 5000; long as some 2oOoooo al
wavs are out Of work in this country ana nearly
100000 without jobs in period OF depresslon' ana
as long as our rural population is on the verge Oh
peasant servty there is not great deal OF danger
of widespread overeating
If we in the west are ever able to overeat' emma
and India still may be looking famine straight in the
face.
The food situation is fine example of the present
-rtsis facing civilization. Science is doing its work
but social craftsmanship is lacking.
Science and machinery have put food under our
very noses but have failed to give us the institutions
which will enable us to take it. We are like hungry
dog looking through the window OF butcher shop
shut out by our stupidity.
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Must Fool the Public

FRANCE, which was to have fur
Il niShed the necessary military
equipment, takes her exposure as a
huge joke, while England, which
was to have sent her entire battle
fleet steaming into the Baltic sea,
regards it as unworthy of official
notice.
AS to Rumania, which was to have
opened proceedings by declaring war
when "a diplomatic incident" gave
her the excuse-she hasn't been
heard from.
But the eight men who have been
clapped into Jail to provide another
Roman holiday for Bolshevism
either will be put to death, or put
where they might as well be dead,
for a good long time.
The Russian masses, it would
seem, stand in need of something
to convince them that all the suffer-
ing and hardship are essential to
preserve the Soviet government.
What could be more convincing
than great trial, centering around
the idea of worldwide conspiracy,
with few executions or few life
sentences to prove it's genuineneSs?
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sTEvENsoNs BIRTH

NOFs Id
NN Nov. 10, 1850, Robert Louis
" Stevenson, famous British nov
elist and essayist, was born at Ed
inburgh, Scotland, the only son of
distinguished lighthouse engineer.
Delicate and sickly, young Ste
venson entered Edinburgh univer-
sity to become an engineer. Dis
liking this, he turned to law. But
no sooner had he passed the bar,
in 1875, than he found his interest
lay in literature.
His literary efforts we're encour-
aged By noted writer's he met at
London. BY writing magazine ar
ticles on his various travels, Ste
venson gradually acquired a name
Success first came to him, however,
with the publication of Treasure
Island" a tale of adventure.
Soon after he married Mrs. OS-
bourne, an American, whom he met
at Paris. The couple travelled ex-
tensively, frequenting mostly health
resorts, where Stevenson sought tC
cure tuberculosis, with which he was
affected.
In 1888 he sailed with his fam
lily to Samoa. in the South Seas
There he made a home for himself
and acquired a position of influence
among the natives.
When he died there, in 1894, the
natives buried him on the peak OF
Mt. Vaea.
Better known among his works
are Treasure Island" kidnapped
and Or. Jekyll and Mr.. HYDE"
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his views are; it appears he's in bed recovering from
the effects Of the gas. 1t may be that the man him
self is a patriot He may even be super patriot
and this seems likely-one Of those citizens who
so patriotic that they objected to Armisce day twelve
years ago, thinking the war shouldn't have stopped
until all the Germans killed or, at least until
the allies had reached Berlin
You know there were folks like that twelve years
ago this week. Maybe that is why the grocer kept
his store open.
However that is only speculation and We should
stick to the one known fact. This fact is that the
mob was only mob, regardless of its patriotic uni
form. 1t went out to do something stupid, as mobS
usually do 1t went out to do something unlawful
and therefore unpatriotic There can be nothing
more unpatriotic than lawlessness
The Legion men are essentially patriots. They
proved it when the country called for their services
But members Of that little group in ST. Clairsville
Tuesday weren't patriots. They were just that many
hoodlums the worse hoodlums for carrying out their
hoodlumisrn clothed in uniform that the country
has come to respect and wishes to continue to respect
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY HB BFo4jS

we're, in all truth, vicious, cruel and
evil, and by our prudishness we gave
them glamor. Membership in the
scarlet army sounds like a most
romantic affiliation.
It would not be difficult to point
out that in all the history of world
literature it is the prettifiers who
have given the greatest aid and
comfort to the enemy.
With an endowment for research
behind me, I would undertake to
prove that the periods of greatest
verbal frankness do not correspond
to the ages of the greatest licen-
tiousness. People prissy about their
language are in very many cases far
less careful Of their morals.
The old style Puritan could sling
a mean phrase with the best of
them and took no shame whatsoever
in using carnal words when he felt
that he was crusading against the
eVildoer
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Making a Patriot

Into a grocery store in st. Cairsville o.. Tuesday
mob of American Legion men hurled tear gas bombs
There were twenty patrons in the place at the time
including women and children. The mob returned to
Legion headquarters according to the Geographic re-
ports carrying fruit and vegetables seized from the
display counters.
Your first thought probably when you read this
dispatch was that the unemployment situation in St
Cairsve must be serious that the Legionnares were
hungry and wanted the fruit and vegetables.
Reading farther, however, you discovered that the
episode had to do with Armistice day; that Armis-
tice day had been proclaimed officially in st. Glars
VILE but that this store had remained open. That
made it clear, you thought the LegionnaireS were
rival merchants who resented the business being done
while they were celebrating.
That also, was your error. 1t was all matter of
patriotism spokesman for the local Legion have
planned 1t.
I'VE regret that it is necessary to impose patriot
ism on any American concern" said Nelson McQuil-
len one of the ring leaders, but feel that failure
to respect Arnistce day is much crime as attack
ing the American flag" Legion Commander Fowler
and City Councilman Ferren supported this explana
ton
So it was patriotism Patriotism means love of
your country. That is the accepted definition, die
tonary and otherwise. The jealous Legionnaires
rifles as well as tear gas bombs-so the dispatches
revesl-"to impose patriotism on the manager of
the store
BY this time, you probably are hopeessIy confused
Obviously, you say. one man can't impose patriotism
on another man. Not even mob do that. no
matter how big the mob and no matter what weapons
it carries. You simply not compel man to love
his country Love isn't like that
70, you can't impose patriotism. You can i'm
pose punishment man for keeping his store
open; but you can't impose love of country on him
That, they say being the purpose of the
Legionnaires, well all have to agree that their ex-
petition a faiure-aside from the stolen fruits
and vegetables They went out to force man to
love his country and they couldn't possibly succeed
Why. the poor grocer even may think it's hell
Of country now. He certainly doesn't love it any
more than he did before all this happened
The news reports don't tell. incidentally. JUS what
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We're Far Behind

NUR own efforts to make propa-
~ ganda by running down and
exposing red propaganda appear
colorless and insipid by comparison.
The best we can do is to conf1s-
cate a ton or so of more or less in
nocuous pamphlets, wave our arms,
make speeches and ask some foolish
questions.
Nothing so tame as that in Mos
COW, if you please.
Over there they start the show
by clapping eight men in jail, trot-
ting out confessions, and charging
every prominent person, in the capt.
talistic world with conspiracy.
The most dramatic part of it is
that the plot which meant so much,
which had been formulated with
such secrecy and circumspection,
and which was to have turned a
couple of millioa bourgeois loose on
Russia last summer, fell fiat before
it was discovered.
The willy Russians are even
shrewd enough to save themselves
the necessity of proving that a
a single remnant of it is left.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

grow more rapidly than the normal.
A baby that weighs five or six
pounds will double its weight by
the end of four months and triple
it by the end of ten months.
A baby fed on breast milk may
grow more rapidly than one arti-
ficially fed. According to DR.. w.
McKim Marriott, this is true of all
breast-fed babies as compared with
all artificially fed babes.
1t does not apply, however, to
breast-fed babies as compared with
those properly fed artifcially. A
baby properly fed artif1cally will
grow just as well as one fed on the
breast.
Unfortunately the majority of
mothers try to use their own judg-
ment in artificial feeding. The fail
to avail themselves of what modern
scientific knowledge has developed
in this field, and as a result their
infants suffer.
The length of the child at birth
depends, of course, on the nature of
the family from which it comes.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ,

Nicholson to Make Final Test
to Determine Speed Of
Light.
| PROFESSOR A. a. NICHOLSON.
L high priest of light. is ready
to begin the preliminary. tests for
his final determination of the speed
of light.
The tests probably viii begin
within a week, according to Prof.
Henry G. Gale, head of the depart
ment of physics of the University OF
Chicago, who just has returned
from a visit to Nicholson at Mt.
Wilson in California.
DR.. Nicholson. now n, recently
retired from the University of Chi
cago. But he is continuing his ex-
periments at the Mt. Wilson observ-
atory of which he is a research as
Sociate.
In 1926 DR.. Nicholson made a de-
termination of the speed of light
which gave the figure of 1925
miles a second. It then was esti-
mated that the error in this deter
mination was less than one part in a
100000, perhaps only one part in
100000
In other words, his result was
correct to within less than mile
one way or the other
DR.. Nicholson expects to obtain a
better result this time.
According to Dr. Gale, he hopes
70 have much Of the experimental
work finished by Christmas and the
results published by next March.
The results will be published jointly
by the University of Chicago and
Mt. Wilson observatory.
The experiments are being
financed by the University of Chi
cago, the Carnegie institution and
the Rockefeller foundation.
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Skill Required

FUNDAMENTALLY, the expert
Il ment is a simple one. A beam
of light is reflected from one face
of the rotating mirror to mirror
at the distant point.
From there it is reflected back to
the rotating mirror, which is ro-
tated by means of a compressed air
motor
If the mirror is rotated at the
right speed, the returning beam Of
light will get back just in time to
hit the second face of the revolving
mirror and so be reflected back
again to the distant mirror, and
so on.
The whole trick then is to get the
rotating mirror to turn at the right
speed. Then if the speed of the ro-
tating mirror can be measured with
sufficient accuracy, and the distance
over which the beam Of light has
travelled can be measured with suf-
ficient accuracy, the speed of light
can be calculated by few simple
CdlCQAdO4OlAcs
Performing the experiment, how
ever, is much more difficult than
the underlying theory. Each meas
urement must be made with a skill
of the sort which few men in the
world possess.
Many scientists do not hesitate to
say that only Nicholson possesses
the necessary skill.
Nicholson was born in Strelno,
Germany, on Dec. 10. 1852. His par
ents moved to San Francisco when
he was a small boy and he attended
the public schools Of that city.
Prior to joining the faculty of the
University Of Chicago, he was pro-
fessor of physics at Case School Of
Applied Science in Cleveland.
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- AA/N/A Lands

NTHILE SENATOR NYE'S investigating commit
w Tee was wandering up and down, looking into
Ruth Hanna McCormick's campaign expenditures we
made bold to suggest that the gentlemen should re-
strain their curiosity until after the election for as
mere candidate she was not subject to their juris-
diction
AS Senator Nye and his official brethren now con-
template the defeat of the one they so industrousv
investigated it must impress them that they might
better have been fishing those days when they were
on the trail of Mrs. Mccormick
James Hamilton Lewis who returns to the senate
from illinois, has an uncanny eye for political weather
for he seldom if ever goes out in the rain
When Lewis saunters forth for a political stroll
you may put it down that it's going to be fair and
warmer.
EVILS started his political career in the state of
IL Washington, where he went to seek his fortune
from his birthplace in Georgia
He went to congress from Washington, as a senator
from the Sucker commonwealth
He Is distinguished for several things, one of them
being that he is the only statesman in captivity
who wears whSkerS
But it would be unfair to take leave of Lewis so
frivoously for he has ability of the very highest
order He is strong lawyer, speaker with no supe-
riors that we can recall and one of the most kable
gentlemen now breathing air.
1t chivalric statement that Lewis sent out
over the air when his election assured his tribute
to Ruth Hanna Mccormick being classic and his
statement that his victory in sense personal
matter, revealed a real man.
TTNHE fates we're against Mark Hannas daughter
Il and if the Old commander of other years looked
down upon the struggle he combination of ad-
verse circumstances the like of which he never en-
countered
But political weather changes quickly and when
the again shines upon the G. 0. P. you may
count on it that Ruth Hanna Mccormick viii re-
appear as one of the leaders in Illinois
Her defeat is not personal; Republican could
have in Illinois this year.
Reading of the elaborate ceremonies which marked
the crowning o; this emperor of AbySSna has spoiled
folks in This country for all future presidential
naugratons, for We can't hope to compete with Abys
Sinia.
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Why Are We Snubbed?

TINE fact that we Americans have
4 not been brought into the deal,
even by so much as mild insinua-
ton, is more huniliating than graft
flying, since it reveals us as too slow
or unimportant to be mentioned.
What, in heavens name, have we
done to be treated that way?
Have our spy-hunting expeditions
been so futile, or our assaults on
Communism so weak as to make no
Don't we get any credit for try
ing?
When all the world is brought to
book as Matching a dark and dias
bolical scheme against the Bolshe-
viks, is it possible that we have not
made noise enough to be counted
as among those present?
The Russian authorities, if they
only knew it, have committed an
unforgivable sin. We Americans
can stand most anything but to be
left out.
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1926 Experiment

I'm his 1926 experiment, DR.. Michel
4 son measured the speed of a
beam Of light as reflected between
Mt. Wilson and a neighboring peak.
Mt. San Antonio, a distance Of
twenty miles.
1t always is necessary TO measure
the speed of light as it goes to a
distant mirror and back again. No
one has devised an apparatus which
will measure the speed Of light as it
goes in one direction only.
DR.. Nicholson felt that the 1926
trial was subject to several sources
of error. One was the changes i'm
temperature and barometric press
sure.
These would result in changes of
the density of the air through which
the beam of light had to travel Air
currents would also have this same
effect.
Another source of error lay in the
possibilities of slight groundshifts
in the twenty miles between Mt.
Wilson and Mt. San Antonio. A
shift of four inches would have been
sufficient to introduce an error of
one part in 100000
In his present experiment, DR..
Nicholson is using a mile-long
stretch of iron pipe. The air has
been extracted from the pipe SO
that the beam of light races back
and forth in a vacuum. Thus all
dangers Of air currents and pressure
changes are eliminated.
The beam will be reflected back
and forth several times in the mile
Of pipe by system of mirrors.
DR.. Nicholson also has refined his
measuring apparatus. In the 1926
experiments he used a rotating mir
ror Of eight sides. His assistant,
DR.. Fred Pearson, just has COM
pleted thirty-two sided mirror for
the present trial.
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Not Even Puritan

Tor all his faults, the Puritan,
L old style, was not the direct
ancestor of the Comstocks and the
Summers. Indeed, I feel that he
survives much more clearly in
Eugene O'Neill, in spite of the
acclaim which that great dramatist
has received from the liberal and
radical elements.
O'Neill seems to me more nearly
Miltonian than any other living
author And this I cite not quite
as praise but merely as one of the
reasons why my enthusiasm for him
is little less than that which gen
orally prevails.
I like my drama less dour by sew
eral degrees and many acts. And
also franker.
(CopyriRht. 1880. by The Times)
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oh, you politics!
~ Mayor Walker of New York
finds it unnecessary. If not unde-
sirable, to cooperate with the re-
lief steering committee headed by
former Governor Smith; the truce
proposed by seven leading Demo-
Gratis and accepted by as many lead
ing Republicans is to be limited"
and Russia discovers a plot to up
set her applicant which involves the
whole world.
Hamilton Fish and his COIN
vestigators appear far less abnormal,
in view of Moscow's latest contribu-
tion to the romantic literature of
propaganda.
Those who had thought us
Americans took the prize when it
came to seeing things" might as
well take off their hats and admit
defeat.
Russia has hung up a war-scare
for the universe to shoot at, and
not only hung it up, but decorated
it with such variety of details
as none but clever artists could con-
ceive and execute.