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representing the beginning of the
breakdown of the tissues Of the
body.
For this reason physicians and in
surance companies suggest regular
physical examinations, including
examination of the urine in order to
ascertain the state of the kidney.
The only way to control the in
sidious onset Of chronic nephritis is
by making such periodic examina-
tons. Such chronic forms of in
fammation of the kidney usually are
associated with involvement OF
blood vessels, including hardening
of the arteries, and sometimes high
blood pressure.
1t has been alleged that the feed
ing of excessive amounts of protein
may be responsible for the begin
ming of chronic nephritis when it is
not associated with an infection.
The proof of this is not estab-
lished, but there is plenty of evil
dence that a well-balanced diet
with the proper proportions of
protein, carbohydrates and fat is
more conducive to a healthful ex-
istence and to freedom from break
down of the kidney than one that
is excessive in protein.
1t generally is pointed out that
the present high speed of living
throws excess effort on all organs
of the body, but particularly on
those associated with elimination.
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Only One Course

Announcement by Samuel insult Jr. that
the ipteresta he represents will make no
further effort to take over the bankrupt
transportation system of this city leaves but
one course open to the public.
There must be public ownership.
1t may be suggested that Mr.. insult IS
wrong when he states that the city govern
ment refused to adopt policy of Service at
cost" It was because they did not believe
that the insult plan would furnish service at
anywhere near cost that city officials reject
ed the proposal.
Representatives of the security holders,
In their campaign to put over the insult bar
are in bad state of repair, the cars unfit for
service and the system generally decrepit.
If that be true and the insults are out of
the picture permanently, the city must plan
its own transportation system.
The people have been told that only the
insult interests would furnish any money for
rehabilitation If that be true the security
holders will wisely look to the one possible
purchaser Of the system, the city Of Indian
apolis, and make overtures for fair price
This city must have and will have real
transportation system that will not only be
sufficient for needs, but so comfortable and
convenient as to make people wish to pat
ronize it, The demands of business require
this.
In this situation the suggestion of George
Marott for bus system with widened
streets should command more attention and
consideration. He estimates that such a sys-
tenn would not only cost less than the insult
proposal but result in a greatly beautified
city.
The insults are out They are the best
operators in the private field. There is no
halfway station between their control and
public ownership, now inevitable and neces-
sary.
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Classics Sleep

II CAN imagine no more dreary
i career for a live and vital Ameri-
can actress than a series Of revivals.
This is particularly true Of Miss
Barrymore.
For. to my mind, she is not well
suited in Shakespearean roles. Pos
sibly, under the pressure of public
demand that every actress must
essay Juliet sooner or later, she
tried and did badly with it.
1t is probably true that there are
other Shakespearean roles in which
she would appear to better advan-
tage. And yet to me the famous
BARRYMORE voice, the Barrymore
manner and personality do not fit
readily into poetic drama Of any
kind.
I don't know whether Ethel
Barrymore is the first lady of our
stage, as so many have asserted.
My own impression is that, though
her range is wide, there are definite
things which she can not do effec-
lively,
And in saying this do not mean
to offer her dispraise.
The notion that a great actor
must be one capable Of playing any
sort of part never has appealed to
me. I would have little interest in
farce written by Eugene O'Neill
doubt tat he could write a good
mystery nelodrama.
And yet, even if these particular
phases Of dramatic writing are not
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No Job Problem Here

A LBUQUERQUE is without an
L n unemployment problem, which
may be partially accounted for by
the fact that it is health resort
and that work just has been started
on an $850,0O0 federal building. with
a veterans hospital in prospect for
next spring.
Beyone that, it is comparatively
small city, dominated by no single
industry, with most of the people
owning their own homes and run
ming their own affairs.
Even so, Albuquerque is nota-
bic exception. We have visited no
other place since leaving New York,
whether large or small, which ap-
peared to have been so little hurt by
the depression, or so well able to
take care of itself.
According to the best information
available, there are only 5000 or
1000 out of work in the entire state
Of New Mexico.
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1\A%1 AOOA Lands

rTSHE country has heard for weeks that the Wick
Il ersham crime commission is going to report
this and that but the truth is it makes little differ
what it reports for it will not change anybodys
idea way or other.
So far as the public is concerned right now, it is
chiefly interested in the 1881 automobile models.
Commissions amount to little or nothing anyhow.
They just makeshft for passing the buck on
certain issues and delaying the necessity for taking
a positive stand on matter which statesmen wish
to put of ultil after the next election.
We've had commissions for this and for that but
if anybody paid any attention to what they said,
the same escaped our attention.
We've just had several of them in Indiana and.
according to the latest report their findings to
be disregarded.
A BOUT the only good these commissions do is to
"A give recognition to fellows who want to trot
around with some martindales on.
It's an easy and harmless way to give happiness
to gentlemen who to feel that they carrying
the burdens of the world.
Right now when the Indiana legislature is begin
ming its aborS we want to emphasize what we've said
several times before and it is that We should take
lot of fellows out of penal institutions and work
them the roads.
Some time ago Warden DAILY OF the northern prison
said that se would ask the legislature to appropriate
100000 for new dollhouse, the same being neceS-
say to take care of the increased prison population
Four million berries a lot of fruit to waste
on this kind of architecture particularly when it
be avoided and it can be by following the example of
other states and taking lot of these prisoners OFT
and working them state roads.
THIS will not cut down the employment of free
labor: it will simply let Indiana construct roads
which she otherwise would not construct
And the prisoners in other states have been glad
to get away from walls and bars that the problem Of
preventing escapes has been made negligible
Taxes are high enough now without spending
100000 this winter for new dollhouse and If you
feel that the boys should be AIKEN out doors and
made to do something for the befeft Of Indiana then
you sit down and write your state senator and state
representative about It.
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1T was the custom once upon a
Il time to fling a challenge by
slapping somebody across the face
with a glove or an open hand. But
that has given way to the open
letter.
Obviously, when you write anybody
an open letter, you are not asking
for information or truly seeking to
make a convert. Your object is to
irritate and bedevil your adversary.
The latest victim of the open let
ter slap is Miss Ethel Barrymore.
A missive addressed to her appears
in the Theater Guild magazine, and
several of our New York reviewers
have commented on it favorably.
To my mind, the suggestions in
this challenge are ill-advised, and ]
trust that Ethel Barrymore will
give them no heed.
After speaking slightingly OF the
plays in which Ethel Barrymore has
appeared in recent seasons, the
writer goes on to say:
You retort, Of course: You don't
like nv plays? Well, show me bet
ter ones. Where are they to be
found?' They are to be found, dear
lady, in the library.
On the corner Of Fifth avenue
and Forty second street there are
hundreds, possibly thousands, OF
plays worthy Of your distinguished
abilities. There you will find (for-
give me for reminding you) 1bsen
and Haptman and Hebbel. There
YOU also will find Shakespeare AND
SophocleS and Euripides. AND
when did you last play Lady Tea
Zle?n
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easily within his scope, he still may
remain a master draInatist.
Share of Tears

1T isn't a limitation upon the emo
l. tional reaction of which I am
speaking in the case of Ethel Barry
more. She has a gift for comedy
and banter and romance. And upon
several occasions I have wept my
share of buckets when she touched
tragedy.
It always has seemed to me that
hers is one of the most beautiful
voices in the theater. But her own
curiously broken rhythm does not
fit readily, to my ear, into verse
plays or stately and cadenced prose.
1 hope she leaves Euripides in
the library on the corner of Fifth
avenue and Forty second street. AS
far as I am concerned, I have no
eagerness to see any of the Greek
tragedies taken down from the shelf
I suspect a certain amount of
snobbery in the cry that we must
get back to the ancients if our the
ater is to preserve its SAVIOR.
Euripides and Sophocles, too,
wrote for an utterly alien dramatic
convention, which can not be readily
reproduced in our own theater. To
a lesser extent the same thing is
true Of Shakespeare.
The mere acting length Of Ham
let" in its entirety makes it cum
bersome for an audience which has
among it commuters hound for
Larchmont and New Rochelle.
eff Mr.. Shakespeare were alive
today, I haven't the slightest doubt
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Motion in Space

CHAPLEY begins his book with
~ consideration of the earths
motion through space as an indica-
ton of the difficulties of exploring
the universe from such an unstable
vantage point He writes:
at Is fortunate that we are Gus
tomarily unaware Of our twisting,
slipping, whirling, flying motion
through space: we otherwise might
lack the courage to explore and
analyze the surrounding world.
1.-THE planet on which we are es-
tablished, where we record and con-
template celestial phenomena, is re-
markably Tightly and unstable. It's
crust apparently slips relative to
the terrestrial core, and perhaps it
also pulses irregularly, to the con-
fusion Of accurate time keeping.
THE axis of the planet does not
hold fast, and its unSteadiness pro
duces complicated latitude varia-
tons that become involved in our
attempts to determine the accurate
positions of stars.
"The rotation of the earth slows
down and the day lengthens I'm
evenly because of the moons at
traction and the changing form of
the earth itself.
Intricate motions arise from lu-
mar and solar drags on the bulged
equator Of the planet.
Many of these minor motions,
sometimes irregular and obscure.
contribute to<the observers knowl-
edge of the stars.
In general surveys, however, as
in ordinary terrestrial life, the small
irregularities are pretty well ig-
nored and VIC concern ourselves
mainly with the major motions of
the planet.
"Of these principal movements we
certainly should not remain una
ware, nor can we, in our studies of
planets and stars, ignore them, even
though they, too, are unrecognized
or Of little concern to any but the
astronomical technician."
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Whatever We Do About Pro
hibition, We Should Con-
fine Drunkenness to Walk
ing or the Back Seat.

A LBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Jan. 10.
From Ell Paso to Albuquerque. you
ride over what now is cataloged as
"U. s. Highway 85," but what the
old Spaniards used to call tornado
Del Muerto," or, Journey of the
Dead" Though safe and easy for the
most part. there are places in this
300-mile trail up the valley of the
Rio Grande which cause you to re-
gsrd the latter description as too
realistic.
One such place is Nogal canyon, a
treeless, rugged gulch, 500 to 600
feet deep, with the road winding
down one precipitous wall and then
up the other.
AS per usual, we met big Pack
ard on the very first hairpin curve.
There might have been six inches
between our off WHEEL and eternity
as We edged around it.
Two men were killed near Pecos,
N. M. Thursday night, and third
seriously injured, when the car in
which they were riding was crowded
off a curve by another with pre-
sumably drunken driver at the
wheel.
One can not travel such roads
and read such items, without re-
calling sign which stands just
outside Ell Paso, reading: Drive
carefully, you may meet fool"
Whatever we do about prohi-
bition, we should confirre drunken
ness to walking, or the back seat.
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Questions and
Answers

On what dates were the 1929 and
the 1880 English Derbies run, and
who were the winners:
June 5, 1929, won by Trigo, and
June 4, 1880, won by Blenheim.
What soliloquy did John Barry
more recite in 'The Show of
Shows?"
The soliloquy from Henry VI
by Shakespeare.
When was Admiral Henry B. Viii
son superintendent of the United
States naval academy?
From July 5, 1921, until Feb. %,
1925.
What Is the derivation of the
word agnoStic?
From the Greek word 'agnostos, -
which means want of knowledge ~
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Ons 4F1OhhA6
Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
TT is recognized generally that the
l. most frequent causes of acute
Inflammation of the kidneys are in
fections of the upper portions of
the respiratory tract, including the
nose, throat, and the bronchial
tubes, and particularly the common
cold and tonSilitis.
Thereafter come infections of the
sinuses and the teeth; then the
conditions that develop following
diphtheria, pneumonia, erysipelaS,
scarlet fever, and measles.
Sometimes the poisons that de-
velop in the body during pregnancy
are associated with acute inf1am-
nations of the kidneys and some
times infections associated with the
delivery of the child are followed
by inflammations of the organs.
Obviously, prevention of attacks
"a 14n1d1A1A4dI4OA1 VI Vic hAStA1OJS III
wolves the attack on the diseases
that have been mentioned.
Since it is exceedingly important
to determine the presence of infec-
ton at the earliest possible stage
it is quite common in hospitals fol
infectious disease to examine the
urine of the patient each day tc
determine whether the organs Of
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Earth S Gyrations

A MONG the planets most con-
IA spicuous drifts and gryrations
which contribute confusion to the
picture, DR.. Shapley says we may
list:
l. Daily rotation thousand
miles an hour at the equator. and
three-fourths as fast in the latitude
Of New York City and Rome.
2. Monthly revolution about the
earth-moon center - thirty miles
an hour.
3. Annual revolution around the
sun-twenty miles a second.
4. Solar systems motion with
respect to neighboring stars-thir-
teen miles a second.
5. Motion Of local star system
with respect to other star clouds
and the globular star clusters-ap-
proximately 200 miles a second.
6. Drift of Milky Way system
with respect to remote external
galaxies-perhaps 100 miles a sec
ond.'
Shapley's book is authoritative
interesting and within the intellec-
tual grasp Of the non-technical
reader. This writer recommends it.
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Contributes to Romance

nUT in this section, people have
Va happy way of mingling ro-
nance and improvement. Maybe
that is one reason why they have
such a healthy outlook on life. At
all events, they can take an inter-
est in the past, without becoming
mossback, or in the present with
out narrowing their perspective.
They have furnished not only
themselves, but the rest of the
country, lot of good material in
both lines. Whether it's new note
in music borrowed from the Indi-
ans, new style in architecture Dor
rowed from the old padres, or a
new theme in literature borrowed
from some outlaw, the west, and
particularly the southwest, has con-
tributed its full quota.
Speaking of "a new theme in
literature, you probably have read
THE Saga Of Billy the Kid" or seen
it as worked over for the movies
If you haven't, you have missed
something worth while, though that
was not what I started out to say.
What I started out to say was
that Mrs. Susan Barber, who died
in Albuquerque the other day, after
having been a resident of the city
for some fifty years, was the iden-
tical lady who played the piano
while the NIcSween faction, to which
BILLY the KID belonged. waged a
desperate battle with the Murphy
faction, which besieged and finally
destroyed it.
Mrs. Barber was Mrs. McSween
at the time, and not only went
through the tragic affair, but lost
her first husband as the result of it.
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$ZH1Sn
H7d6AkF b1TF9eH
EAMNlVGR$ARYI
ETHAN ALIENS BIRTH
Jan. 10

ON Jan. 10, 1877, Ethan Allen,
~ famous American soldier, was
born at Litchfielo, Conn. He moved
to Vermont in 1853 and took an
active part in thai states contro-
versy with New York over land
grants.
At tho outbreak Of the Revolution,
Allen organized an expedition against
Ticonaeroga. On the morning of
May 10. ITS, he surprised the Brit
ish garrison and forced its COM
mander to surrender lin the name
of the great Jehovah and the con-
tinental congress"
Allen later was sent on secret
missions to Canada and did good
service in Mongomerys expedition
He was captured near Montreal and
sent to England.
Some months later he was sent
back to this country and, after be-
ing held prisoner in Halifax and
New York, wac exchanged.
Oh Ks return tdtVermont ne wa:
brew "a lieutenant colonel By
conr nd became a brigadier.
ger Vermont militia
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1T SEEMS TO ME BY HB BFoTS

that he would be not only willing,
but eager, to sponsor many revi-
sions even in his favorite works.
Naturally I'm not contending that
our. theater should never look back
OF the glories of the past. But
might point out that in the So
called golden age, when all the
great ones of the theater devoted
their energies largely to Shakes
peare, we had a current drama
which was weak, feeble and imita-
tive.
Thus American plays Of the mid
die nineteenth century, which were
written after the manner of Shakes
peare. probably marked the lowest
ebb Of American dranaturgy.
Copyright. 1881. by The Tines
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SCIENCE
by DAVID nIETZ

We Tacist, Slip, Whirl and
Fly Through Space m an
Amazing Manner.
ONE of the most dramatic and
~ significant facts of modern
science is that it has been possible
to trace a scheme of organization
from the electron, so small that sew
eral million could be placed upon
the period at the end of this SEN
tence, to the Milky way, an aggre-
CATION Of 10000 ,000, 900 stars, many
of them more than a million times
larger than the earth.
1t is even more signn1cauU 6liss
from the study of the electron the
scientist learns the laws which gov
ern the behavior of stars.
The story of the organization Of
the universe is told by DR.. Harlow
Shapley, world-faInous astronomer
and director of the Harvard OBJ
servatoTy, in an excellent book just
published by whittlesey House I'M
der the title of Flights From
Chaos" (The price is $2.5O)
The book is an interesting one
from the standpoint of the book
makers art as well as that Of the
layman seeking an easily read ex-
PLANTATION of modern scientific views
by a great authority.
AS BELTS book Of modern sci
ence. Whittlesey House has given
the book a modern dress.
Illustrations have been fitted into
the book not in the usual way. but
as decorations in the text. Initial
letters are made out Of constella-
lions and astronomical instruments
Nebulae, planet and comets are
used as chapter subdivisions and
tail-pieces.
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one OF Americas most inter-
eSting writers and are pre-
scented without regard 10 their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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Where is the Hopkins railway Ii
brary?
1t is a part of the library Of
Stanford university. Timothy Hop
kins willed his library of books on
railways to the university with the
provision that it was to be specially
administered as part Of the uni
versity library specializing in trans
portation.
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GIan0r in Past

THE southwest has a longer past
n than goes with the bad man,
OF two-gun sheriff, and a wider
present than goes with the price Of
lota on Main street.
When you go up to Albuquerque
from Ell Paso, you not only pass Ele-
plant Butte dam, which impounds
one of the largest artificial lakes on
earth, but the Pueblo of Isleta,
where families have occupied the
same house for 500 yeras.
What is more, you pass towns, the
very names of whici are rooted in a
romantic age-Las Cruces, so called
from a group of crosses erected
above e party Of slain Spaniards;
and Socorro, so designated by a
Spanish governor because its
friendly Indians had lent him sue
cor in an hour of desperate need.
What should be the height and
weight of a mature AiredaIe. ter
rier?
No standard height has been
adopted for the Airedale, but ma
ture specimens stand approximately
% to "a inches. Mature males
should weigh from forty to forty
five pounds; females slightly less.
Weight is one Of the important
points of the Airedale standard,
most good individuals topping the
forty-fiye-pound limit slightly.
What are the titles of the rulers
of Belgium, Denmark and the
Netherlands?
King Albert of Belgium, King
Christian x Of Denmark and Queen
Wilhelmina Of the Netherlands.
Does an ordinary punt that goes
over the bar between the goal posts
in football count as a field goal and
score thres points?
A field goal, counting three points
in football, may be scored by a drop
kick or place kick, but an ordi-
nary punt that gees over the bar
between the goal posts has no scor-
ING ValQS.
What are the duties of the United
States bureau of insular affairs, and
under what executive department
of the government is it?
It is under the immediate direc-
ton of the secretary of war, and
has assigned to it all matters per-
tanning to civil government in the
island possessions of the United
States that are subject to the juris-
diction Of the war department. the
Philippine islands and Porto Rico
How many Negroes have held the
position of United States register Of
the treasury?
-Four Blanche K. Bruce, j. C. Ma
pier, ". 6. Vernon and Judson "
Lyons.
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A New Jersey man has invented an electrical re-
vice to shock mosquitoes to death And many Of
them no doubt, will bite for this.
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This is the season when hunting dogs start ou
with new leash on life.