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What's the Rush?

My interest in speed contests
N1 whether on land or sea or in
the air above-is fairly dim. Very
little is gained by such engage
ments. Before Kaye Don went to
Detroit I had an opportunity to
talk with him, and he contended
that there is a distinct value in this
matching of pace.
Mr.. Don's argument was that the
speedboat or car of today becomes
the accepted vehicle OF the next five
years. He tried to convince me
that safety factors are developed
proportionately with the increase in
power. This, think, is true within
limits.
Of course, I can remember back
to day when forty miles an hour
was considered an outrageous speed
for an automobile. And now on
clear and unobstructed roads, sixty
is safe enough for a good driver.
Four-wheel brakes and better tires
have cut down the n gin of acct
dents. And, of course, it is pos
sible to build motor highways for
fast-traveling vehicles.
Kaye Don explained to me that
it would be logical for such a vast
metropolis as ours to construct one
way roads over which the city
dweller could reach the suburbs in
half an hour or less.
He spoke of the develo0-lents in
Italy, where vast concrete stretches
are devoted to the use of men and
women who want to drive fast. But
these speedways are so arranged
that no cross traffic can confuse
and endanger the headlN7g fight.
In this see some merit. During
the stress of unemployment 1t
might be well to plan vast i'm
provement in the arteries Of Man.
haitian. AS yet the problem Of get
ting away from New York remains
unsolved. There are two or three
bottle necks in which congestion
becomes unavoidable on any Satur-
day, Sunday or holiday.
We could, without any fantastic
effort, bring the suburbs Of the city
closer to its center by well-regu-
lated building. California already
is far ahead of our own state in the
matter of roads permitting fast
progress. Even so, think that
there is a limit beyond which rapid
motion becomes pure reckleSsness.
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RUSS REVOLT FAILS
Sept. IL


ON Sept. II, 1917, the revolt of
~ General Kornilof against the
provisional government of Russia
collapsed after Premier Kerensky
assumed the function of command
er-in-chief.
Expressions of loyalty to the pro-
visional government came from the
Workingmen's and Soldiers dele
gates, from the Constitutional DEM
ocrats, from the Bolsheviki, the
Ukrainians, Firms and distinguished
generals and it was clear that the
Korniloff revolt had failed to re-
ceive the support it expected.
Nevertheless, Korniloff with sew
eral battalions advanced toward
Petrograd, and on this date occu-
pied Gotchina, thirty miles south
west of the hospital, but there was
no bloodShed.
On this date also, Secretary of
War Baker issued a statement in
Washington that the Liberty Mo-
tor" Americas new standardized
eiTpIane motor, had been perfected.
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Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

TN Baltimore woman is dying. She nurse in
l. France. Though no monuments will be erected to
her, her life is a sacrifice to the drums of battle.
In San Diego a former college football star, men
tally shocked at the scene he had witnessed brookng
over the visions of comrades slain before his eyes,
suddenly went raving crazy and now is hopeless
wreck in room with barred windows.
In Memphis, health ruined, children in an or
phanage another war veteran Occupies hospital cot
and laughs Historically while he says "You people
do not want to know the truth about war. Nobody
wants the truth. Your StomachS could not stand it.
You want romance, and glamor and lies"
Here is little of the bitter fruit of sowing in
hatred. The whirlwind is about our ears. The wind
that saw our empty poSturing long since has sped,
taking with it ten million souls. The drums have
ceased We are left with the disaster that is their
eternal echo.
THE world has twenty million wounded ex-soldiers
Il pitiful wrecks some of them, beating out their
ruined lives against hospital walls. The total
nomic waste of our gunplay is estimated at approx
mately one hundred billions of dollars
And who can count the cost in human suffering,
in youth destroyed, in shattered dreams9
But do you, in your normal business of living ever
go into of these places where benign govern
ment takes its broken heroes2 Seldom, dare say.
because it is not a pleasant experience.
Yet are not these places also Shrines? To them
every citizen should take an annual pilgrimage, and
for every wreath placed upon a dead soldiers tomb
visit should be made to living victims, that we
might see what war does to the men it spares Then
might we say to our hearts: 5r
Regard this wreckage that Christians have
wrought IN the name Of their Lords
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SCIENCE
-RY DAV1n NIETZ


Miss Henrietta Leavitt, Hdr-
card Astronomer, Cave.
Science One of It's Meas
airing Rods" for Plumbing
Depths of Universe.
GRAMMAR school children, who
" are beginning to learn their
geography, like to write their adj
dress with flourish, adding: West
ern Hemisphere, the Earth" after
United States Of America"
Suppose we carry that on into the
universe at large and see what We
can add.
AS a beginning, let US put down
"Solar System, the Solar Neighbor-
hood, the Region of the Brighter
Stars, the Local Cloud, the Galaxy"
Readers who have been following
our discussions of the survey of the
universe upon which the Harvard
observatory has embarked, will rec
ogniZe here some of the major di-
visions which the Harvard as
tronomers make in the universe.
Every one, of course. knows the
solar system, our sun and its family
of planets, one of which is the
earth. The Solar Neighborhood eX-
tends out in all directions to
distance of fifty light-years. "a
light-year is 100000 100000 miles)
1t is region populated for the most
part with small dwarf stars.
Surrounding the Solar Neighbour
hood and extending out to a distance
of 500 light-years, is the Region of
the Brighter Stars, So-called be-
cause it contains most of the 5000
stars visible to the naked eye. The
telescope, however, reveals that there
are at least 100000 stars in this re-
giOn
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to forge ahead. And even now the
f1iers tell me that there is small
extra risk in terrific speed.
However, Kaye Don spoke a little
scornfully of aviation. He himself
has engaged in flying, automobile
racing and speedboat contests. To
him the airplane seems almost
siSsified.
why" he said to me with obvi-
Gus sincerity, "at a reasonable alti-
tude one can cruise along at 100
miles an hour and take his hands
off the controls and read a book
A car or a boat is different. There
you have to be on the job every
minute"
imagine that in the personality
of man like Kaye Don there must
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M. E. Tracy
SAYS:

If Macdonald Is Made q P0-
liticdL OutcGSt We Are
Living in a Sorry World
and England Is the Sorriest
Part.
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-Most
IN everybody is predicting that
Ramsay Macdonald viii get the
cold shoulder for his courage, that
virtual oblivion will be his reward for
breaking with the Labor party, and
that he will be edged complacently
out of the picture, once the coali-
ton cabinet has performed its brief,
but all-important task.
If that's true, we live in sorry
world and England is ora OF the
sorriest parts of it.
That Macdonald took such a
chance, there can be no doubt, but
that there are not enough sensible
and appreciative Englishmen to
prevent stupid, destructive PARTISAN
ship from spelling the fine example
he has set is not so certain.
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Frenzied Finance

The federal tax battle has begun three months be-
fore the opening of congress. 1t is by all odds the
most important national fight of the year.
For on this issue of government financing hangs
the long string of other ssues-prohibiton expense
versus legal liquor tax naval building program versus
arms reduction; federal unemployment relief versus
hunger and riots; redistribution of overconcentrated
wealth versus continued lack of public purchasing
power; larger federal deficit and debt versus a
balanced budget.
Friday Senator Watson, after talking with Presi-
dent Hoover reaffirmed the administration policy 1t
is simple: Meet the mounting deficits and debts by
more borrowing. Why such violation of sound pub
lie finance? Again Watsons reason is simple.
II think" he says, until after we have passed
the presidential election and other highly disturbing
factors should steer clear of any tax legislation
We agree with this Republican leader of the SEN
ate that tax increase will be highly disturbing to
Republican election prospects, but we do not agree
that such partisan interests are legitimate excuse
for unsound public financing.
We share the view of the liberals of both parties
that the deficit should be met by increased taxation
of the only group from which more revenue can be
extracted in this time of depression namely the very
rich
But we hasten to add that the idea of balancing a
puget ana paying -you-go is no neWfangled rad
cal notion 1t u.s. and always has been the very heart
of conservative financial practicewhether for the in
dividual, the corporation the government.
Therefore, we not surprised that the conserva-
tive Republican member of the ways and means
committee, Representative Bacharach and others,
have broken with the Hoover-Watson wing of the
administration and demanding a balanced budget
by increased taxes from the rich.
The attempt of the Hoover Watson GROIN To kiss
of prospective three-bion dollar operating deficit
with easy borrowing until after the election is as
financially disastrous as it is politically dishonest
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

WHETHER you are bricklayer
VVor "the big boss" you find that
it is economical to be healthy. For
loss of time on account of disease
or loss of efficiency due to fatigue
can be measured in terms of dol
lars and cents.
Therefore, men should have an
actual knowledge of their state of
health, and this can be had by a
proper physical examination.
Granted that such an examination
reveals no serious conditions de-
handing immediate correction, ev-
cry one ought to know enough about
personal hygiene to conduct his life
to the best advantage.
The human body is a combina-
ton of cells bound together in va
rious systems, including for example,
the muscles, the bones, the circu-
lation of the blood, the nervous
system and the digestive tract.
These interlocking cogs of the hu-
man machine usually will get along
satisfactorily if left largely alone,
particularly since there is within the
cells the power of RIPARIAN abil-
ity that does not exist, for instance,
in such machinery as can be found
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Measuring Rods
TINE use of certain kinds of vari

TINE use Of certain kinds OF varlr
able stars as measuring rods is
fascinating chapter in astronomy.
Variable stars are stars whose
brilliance or light varies. Those in
which the variation takes place in
twenty days or less are known as
short-period variables or Cepheids.
This last name comes from the
fact that the first star of this sort
to be investigated was the star Delta
in the constellation, Cepheus. Each
Cepheid has it's own definite period,
going through it's light changes with
the precision of clock.
One of The most important dis
coveries about the Cepheids was
made by Miss Henrietta Leavitt, one
of the Harvard astronomers. This
was that there was relationship
between the period Of Cepheid
and its real brightness or absolute
magnitude.
DR.. Shapley developed this dis
covery into a powerful tool for
plumbing the depths of the uni
verse. FOR by II, IL became possible
to calculate the distances of Cep-
heids whose distances never could
be measured directly.
The apparent magnitude of the
star could be measured. The abso-
lutte magnitude could be inferred
from the period. From these two
facts, it was possible to calculate the
distance.
About seven years ago program
for the systematic photography Of
Milky Way variable stars was in
augurated at our northern and
southern stations" DR.. Shapley
says.
This program is now to be en-
larged in the present survey of the
universe, he says.
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Does sIeeping directly

Does sleeping directly in the
moonlight cause blindness?
The word lunatic comes from the
Latin word luna meaning moon,
and it is an old superstition that
the moon has a direct effect upon
the brain of human beings, hence
the superstition that sleeping in the
moonlight causes blindness, insanity
and kindred calamitieS. This has
long since been dispsoved by scien-
tif1c investigation.
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be some terrific kick in speed for
speeds own sake. Of course, this
is not peculiar tangent in human
personality. We all enjoy the rush
of wind in the face; otherwise there
would not be scenic railways at
every amusement park.
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ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those Of
one Of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude nf
this uaDer.-The Editor.
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Local Cloud Immense

THE Local Cloud is not so easily
i described. That cosmic divi-
sion is based upon evidence which
has not yet been analysed complete
ly. But it seems as if the galaxy
or Milky Way is divided into
number of great swarms or clouds
of stars.
The one which contains our solar
system, the Solar Neighborhood.
and the Region of the Brighter
Stars, is known as the Local Cloud.
We are not entirely certain about
the size of the Local Cloud. But
DR.. Harlow Shapley, director of the
Harvard Observatory, says that it
must extend out for several thou
sand light-yearS and contain some
tens or hundreds of millions Of
stars.
We come now, in our discussion,
to the galaxy itself, more popularity
known as the Milky Way.
THE stars within 5000 light-years
of the sun constitute a trifing pro-
portion of the galactic system as
outlined Dy glOpuIar SCdr CLUSTERS
and the Milky Way Clouds says
Dr. Shapley.
1.-THE faint stars of the Milky Way
are so remote that spectroscopic
methods of determining their dis
tances are as yet quite impossible.
and trigonometric and proper mo-
ton measures are hopelessly made
quate.
Statistical analysis. based on the
count of stars of various magni-
tudes, assist in discovering the
structure of the nearer parts Of the
Milky Way; Lut perhaps now the
most satisfactory attack on its ex-
tent and structure can be made
through the study of the periods
and light curves Of variable stars"
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Leaves Us BeWiIdered

NEAHATMA GANDHI pauseS in
lV1 his more or less triurlphal
progress towardt the round table
conference" not only to describe
himself as a British prisoner, but to
inform us Americans that we need
not expect a visit from him in the
immediate future. because we are
not ready for his message"
The Mahatnla leaves us be-
wildered, rather than disappointed.
We have quite enough troubles with
out having to entertain a prophet,
or without Undertaking to help solve
the Indian riddle.
Beyond that, the Mahatma should
remember that we won our in
dependence $50 years ago, and with
out discarding our pants.
+ II e
Edging From Communism
d ETURNING from his seventh
N trip to Russia, where he is
employed as consulting engineer on
great power projects, Hugh l..
Cooper brings the agreeable. but
hardly surprising news that the
Soviet gradually is edging away
from Communism.
AS a matter of plain, ordinary
horse sense, the Soviet couldn't. do
anything else.
Both nature and human nature
are opposed to Communism as a
permanent institution.
The fact that Communism is a
convenient medium for swift and
violent changes of the economic
order, and has played more or less
of a part in every great revolution,
should not fool any one as to its
real character.
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The Proper Reward

IF ten men we're marooned on an
L island, with one in possession of
all the food supply, while the rest
faced starvation, the nine would
proceed to gang upon him and
take not only what they needed, but
everything in sight.
AS temporary modus vivendi,
they would convert what they had
taken into a common pile, with share
and share alike for every one.
After they had satisfied their i'm
mediate needs, however, had set
tied down to organized life, had
learned how to utilize the islands
natural resources, they would not
only fall into different trades and
styles of living, but each would in
sist on the proper reward for his
own peculiar talent and the old, i'm
mutable law of weakness and
strength would reassert itself.
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Daily Thought

Ye shall not therefore Cypress
one another; but thou shalt fear
thy God: for / am the Lord your
GOd.-Leviticus 25:17.
Oppression is but another name
for irresponsible power, if history is
to be trusted.-William Pinkney.
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A lame Sport

WE must look to the air for the
wv conquest Of space and time. In
the ether there always viii be room
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overprotection.

What this country seems to be suffering from is
overprotection.
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And to think that the reich, but for letter, might
be rich.
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Is the proper abbreviation Of
Pennsylvania Pa. or Penn?
Pa. is the official poStoffice abb
breviation.
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was too much optimism in 1923. There is too much
pessimisrn today.
Things never are so bad as they painted when
things are bad, and things never so perfect as
they seem when the economic sun is shining.
There's happy medium either in times of dis
treSs or times of elation. In depression, recogni-
ton of that fact will aay fear. In boom times, it
will counsel sanity and prevent excuses. We won't
harm, but will help, if wipe join in the philosophy of
the steeplejack and know better than to let this
thing scare U.S."
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Gradually Evolving System

ID USSlA generally is evolving a
IN social and political system
which, though new and grand in
superficial appearance, will be won
derfully similar to that prevailing
throughout the civilized world when
complete.
In form, the Russian experiment
appears both novel and stupendous,
but in principle, it is as old as the
hills.
Russia could not have thrown off
the medieval tyranny under which
she was held by the Romanoff re-
gime and embarked on an economic
career at all consonant with the
times, except by just such a revo-
luton as she staged.
BolShevlSm represented her one
hope; Communism, her one vehicle
of transition. That, however, was
purely a matter of the Russian
problem and the Russian back
ground. 1t had nothing to do with
the problems and background of
other lands.
In ability to realize this funda-
mental difference is what made
Russian leaders bid for world revo-
luton and made the rest of us so
scared of the Russian revolution.
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New Class Consciousness

lNOW OiCAOO
ID USSIA already is beginning to
IN throw up a new aristocracy
and to show signs of a new class
consciousness.
Czarism will not return, because
its stupidity has become obvious
and it's worthlessness well under
stood, but those differences and dis
tinctions which originate in the I'M
equal capacities of human beings
will return.
AS a matter of fact, they already
have returned. The commissars
and Communist party, though rep
resenting but small minority of
the Russian people, already are in
position not only to exercise I'M
questioned authority, but to de-
mand and receive consideration be-
yond the reach of average indi-
vidualS.
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BY FREE A A N LING OLN

sidering his words. How abou that money that Nelson borrowed when he went away? Was it., mean, do you-?"
 Sam took her hand from his arm and stepped away. Thanks just ths same she said formally, but don't need any money
 He drowned. You're sure? Tn engaged to you now, you know, anc have the right to ask"
 I'm sure" She nodded abruptly "The money Nelson tcok was some that I had for household purposes It didn't amount to anything"
 Peak was not satisfied, but there seemed to be nothing more that he could say. He turned toward thc door. All right, then, Sam. I'll be going. Good night"
 Good night, Peak" Sam was grave. Don't you want to kiss me before you go? It's part of the bargain, you know
 1 "Is it?" He turned and smiled al her from the open door Then just credit it to my account, will you I may collect it some day-with in- terest." .s | He left her then, and Sam inn mediately went up to her room. In bed, with the lights out, she con centrated on mental arithmetic She might think of Nelson, or Freddy.
 Thirteen times seventy-six , said Sam, firmly, aloud, and closed her eyes.
 ! When Sam woke it was broad daylight. A sound caused her to sit upright in bed and she saw that Fourth Aldersea was standing, fully dressed, with his back to the window. Fourths face was drawn in the morning light and there was noticeable droop to his shoulders He nodded and spoke as though he were continuing a conversation only momentarily interrupted.
 Well, Joan, I arrived several hours too late found that Nelson was married yesterday afternoon in Elkton, about five o'clock"
 "Oh," Sam shrugged. Well, that is what I expected" She looked al her stepfather. Did you see them?'
 NO" Fourth laughed shortly Luckily for, everybody concerned I didn't see them. They left Elkton apparently, very shortly after tf< happy event"
 Have you any idea where they went?"
 q haven't" said Fourth quietly and to be perfectly frank witt you, I'm not interested"
 Sam shook ner mead. You don 7 mean that, Fourth. Nelson is you : son, after all. You'll want to se' , him again some time.'
 Shall I?" Fourth smiled. "Ant I suppose I'll want to see my nev daughter -in-laW also-my beautiful
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SYNOPSIS: Peak Abbott is amazed when, after many re- fusals, Sam Sherrill suddenly tells him that she will marry him and asks that the engage mcnt be announced the next day. Her motive is that the papers will carry next day the news of her half b. 0 h r's clcpement with their maid, and she hopts to offset the story. She also wishes to marry Ab- bolt because she is in finan- ciaI straits. Her half brother, Nelson, has taken with him money for payment of interest on a mortgage. Money has been scarce in the family since her aristccratic stepfather, Fourth, lost the family fortune. Fourth has set cut for Elktcn, hoping to catch the runaways and prevent the marriage. Sam is bitterly unhappy because she actually Ioves Freddy Munson, reporter On the Express, where Sam works, agrees to publish the engagement notice. sam tells him to hurry.