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Questions and
Answers

Is a shooting star" star or a
comet?
1t is a meteorite which has en-
tered the field of the earth's gravi-
rational attraction and by friction
with the earths atmosphere has
been heated to incandescence. Most
shooting stars never fall upon the
earth, because, in their rapid flight
through the air they are completely
consumed by FRACTIONAL heat and are
dissolved into gases. Larger ones
occasionally fall to earth as black
ened masses of stone or metal.
What qualifications for President
of the United States are named in
the Constitution?
NO person except a natural born
citizen, or a citizen of the United
States at the time of the adoption
of this Constitution, shall be eligi-
BILE to the office of President;
neither shall any person be eligible
to that Office who shall not have at
tanned the age of 35 years, and been
fourteen years a resident within the
United States"
Did Franklin ID. Roosevelt nomi-
nate Alfred E. Smith in the 1924
and 1928 Democratic conventions?
Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated
Alfred E. Smith at the Democratic
national convention in New York
in 1924 and also made the nomi-
mating speech for Governor Smith
at the Houston convention in 1928.
Which state has political divi-
sions called parishes?
Louisiana, where parishes are po-
litical divisions equivalent to coun-
ties in other states.
How is the roaring sound pro-
duced in sea shells?
The shells are resonators and pick
up and magnify sound waves that
are imperceptible to the human ear.
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1t Looks FiShy

TINE fact that the Hoover adj
Il ministration did so little to
meet this emergency until last fall.
coupled with the fact that about
everything it has done since that
time could have been done a year
before, produces a most unfavor-
able effect on the average mind.
1t requires the most naive trust
fitness to accept such a situation
as accidental. One just can't pic
ture it as having crept up on Re-
publican leaders without their re-
alizing it.
No more can one contrast the
feverish anxiety to do something
now with the indifference of two
years ago without suspectng that
certain measures were timed with
an eye to their usefulness as vote
getters.
You can argue that such sus-
picion is illogical and unjustified,
but that does not remove it.
Right or wrong, it is working, and
it is going to play a more i'm
portant part on Nov. than some
politicians imagine.
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A New Chemistry


ME experiment showed that the
Il atoms Of lithiur1 were disinte-
grated or smashed, and changed
into atoms of helium, which are
lighter than lithium.
Observations, however, led to the
conclusion that the helium atoms
were produced in pairs. Moreover.
the helium atoms, produced in the
experiment, we're found to move
with much greater velocities than
the original protons which caused
the disintegration.
This led to the conclusion at once
that the proton merely acted as a
sort of trigger, releasing a greater
amount of energy inherent in the
lithium atom.
In other words, the proton was
like a cap which sets off charge
of dynamite.
Further study, however, has led
to much more important discov-
cry. Apparently the proton COM
bines with the nucleus of the lith-
ium atom to produce two helium
nuclei.
If this is the case, it is the first
experiment at confirmation of the
theory of nuclear structure. 1t had
been assumed that the nucleus of
TT lithium atom consisted of seven
protons and four electrons and that
the nucleus of the helium atom con-
sisted of four protons and two cleo
irons.
Simple arithmetic shows. then.
that by adding proton to the
lithium nuclei enough particles are
obtained to make two helium nuclei.
1t becomes evident therefore that
Cockcroft and Walton have devel-
oped new kind of chemistry. in
which the reactions take place be-
tween the particles inside of the
nuclei of atoms.
But an even more important re-
suit has been pointed out. The lith-
lum atom shows greater atomic
weight than do two helium atoms.
Therefore, there has been a loss of
weight.
Now Professor Einstein of rels-
tiyity fame, also has suggested the
possibility of converting matter into
energy and has written equations to
snow how much energy would result
from given loss of matter.
The excess of energy shown In the
experiment by the two heiium atoms
is Just what it should be. according
to the Einstein equation, for the loss
of weight.
Cockcroft and Walton, therefore.
have given experimental proof of
the theory of nuclear structure and
OF the Einstein energy equations, as
well as furnishing scientists with a
new technique of what might be
termed "nuclear chemistry
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React TO Tradition
XXTHEN stocks rise in the midst

WHEN stocks rise in the midst
w of political campaign
after three years of depression
millions of people jump to the con-
clusion that it is the result of q
deliberate drive on the part of Wall
Street and big business.
These people merely are reacting
to a tradition which Republican
smugness, as well as soapbox ora
tory, has helped to create.
The temporary improvement of
conditions probably has hurt Presi-
dent Hoover's chances of re-elec-
ton. Had it come last year. or the
year before, people would have ac-
copied it as genuine, even though
Il proved only flash in the pan.
Coming at this time. it strikes
many of them as too fishy fol- con-
f1dence. Instead of taking it as
evidencing the soundness of Re-
publican policy, they take it as lust
another futile play to the galleries.
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SCIENCE
RY DAYID DIETZ

Great Progress Is Made in
Field Of Atomic Study in
Last Year.
1T now is apparent that 1892 will
L go down in the history of atomic
study as one of those important
years in which a new and fruitful
line of investigation was revealed.
In some ways it may compare to
1895.
It was in 1895, at meeting OF
the German Physical Society on
Christmas Eve, that Professor We'll
helm Konrad Roentgen first DEM
onstrated the X-ray.
Nineteenth century physicists had
been confident of the perfection OF
their system of physics They as
sumed that they had completed the
wo-k Of physical discovery and hao
formulated the laws of the uni
verse for all time.
Then came X-rays, something of
LAAN1A NA4tN AiuQ AAVb tNCn III EuAiltu.
A new train of investigation was
opened. Xrays led to the discov-
cry of the sradio-activity of uran-
ium. which in turn led to the iso-
lation of radium.
The analysis of radium, chiefly at
the hands of Lord Rutherford, led
to the discovery that the atom con-
sisted of a nucleus surrounded by
negative electrons.
The discoveries of 1882 have to
do with the nucleus of the atom.
And the most important of them to
Gate, it is extremely interesting to
note, has come out of Lord Ruth
erford's laboratory, the famous Ca
vendish laboratory of the Univer-
sity of Cambridge, England.
1t is the work of DR.. J. D. Cock
croft and DR.. E. T. S. Walton in
smashing the atom"
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II TO-DAY So
T is THE up
WORLD WAR !
ANNIVERSARY
~ gAGE
U. S. SHIP TORPEDOED
Sept. 80.

ON Sept. 80, 1918, the American
" steamer Ticonderoga was tor
pedoed about 1000 miles of the
American coast while on the way to
France. Eleven naval officers and
102 men were lost.
British troops were hammering on
the back doors of Cambria and St.
Quentin, and took MeSSines Ridge
and Gheluwe in a series of at
tacks.
In the Argonne. Americans adj
vanced slightly while the French.
completing successful allies day.
stormed a front of seven and a half
miles and advanced between the
Aisne and the Vesle rivers.
In the Balkans, French troops
massed at Uskubh and captured the
village.
Hostilities with Bulgaria we're
ended officially at noon on this day.
Are Norway and Sweden under
one government.
The union of Norway and Sweden
was dissolved by mutual agreement.
Oct IS. 1905. and they are nov
separate kingdoms. =
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NJ. E. Tracy

Many People Beliere That
the Apparent Gain in
Stocks and Employment Is
Only a Political Rig.
NEW YORK, Sept. .so.-stock
IN market gains, commodity price
gains, and unemployment gains,
about which we are hearing so
much, would be taken more seri-
ously but for, the widespread sus-
picion that they represent politi-
cal rig, rather than genuine recov-
cry.
Whether this suspicion is justi-
fed, it is a fact. Millions of peo-
pie believe that they are beholding
a campaign drive by big business
and not the natural return of pros
perity. They believe it because they
have been trained in the super-man
theory, in economic mysticism. in
hero worship and devil scares where
great financial interests are con-
cerned.
1t generally is accepted that a
bond of sympathy exists between
big business and the Republican
party, that Wall Street wants Hoo
er reelected and that manipulation
of markets is possible. The Repub-
lican party has done it's full share
in developing such a notion. 1t has
paraded as the protector OF industry
and the guarantor of prosperity.
1t has preached the gospel of a
definite association between politics
and business. 1t has drawn heav-
lily on great financial and CONNER
cial institutions for its campaign
funds.
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T AM convinced that 1 was in err
L ror in stating that William z.
Foster, the Communist candidate
for President, has been deposed
from the leadership of his party.
His illness is severe and suffices to
explain his abandonment of his
speaking tour. People who wrote
in to kick had a right to kick.
The New Republic also has a
justified protest against my refer
ence to its "three Communist edi-
tors"
For the sake of accuracy" writes
Bruce Blivin, 81 think you ought
to know that there are five editors
of the New Republic. One of these,
the dramatic critic, is voting for
Roosevelt. Another, the literary edi-
tor, is voting for Foster, although
he is not member of the Com
munist party.
THE three others, including the
men directly responsible for the pa
pers position on political and eco
nomic matters, are all voting for
Norman Thomas"
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aSt-MOying Particles

CONSIDERABLE discussion was
~ aroused by the work of Cock
croft and Wilson when it was an
nounced a few months ago But it
is only now that its full significance
is being realized.
There is nothing new to smash
ing the atom AS early as 1919,
Rutherford succeeded in breaking
up the atoms of a variety of sub
stances by bombarding them with
the alpha rays of radium.
1t was realized then that any APP
paratus which furnished streams Of
faSt-moving particles, such as alpha
particles, would make it possible to
break up the atoms of bombarded
substances and to convert, by this
means, one chemical element into
another.
To do this meant that it was nee
essary to devise apparatus which
would furnish electrical potentials
of several million volts and to build
vacuum tubes which could operate
at thes yoltages.
Rutherford's laboratory was
among those which attacked the
problem and Cockcroft and Walton.
working under Rutherfords direc-
ton, developed vacuum tube which
furnished fast-moving stream of
protons or positive electrons.
They were of the opinion that the
proton, which is smaller than an
alpha particle, would be more capa-
BILE of penetrating the nucleus of an
atom.
They used these streams of pro-
tons to lombard lithium of atomic
weight 7. Their apparatus was set
up in such way that the proton
stream struck a strip of lithitm foil.
which was mounted inside of the
vacuum tube.
This made it possible to isolate
and analyze the products of disinte-
grafton.
Not only we're lithium atoms dig
lntegrated, bat two other results of
far-reaching Importance were
achieved.
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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-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this ma ner.-Tbe Editor.
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you a Socialist, and what is it all
about?" 1 talked for half an hour
without break, using both hands,
each tonsil and a considerable por-
ton of my immortal soul.
When 1 paused to take a breath
he said: Thank you so much. It's
been very amusing"
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This Time | Didn't Do It

DUT I need not hit my head
ID against the floor in regard to
numerous accusations or miSrepre-
sentation because 1 wrots a column
saying that the Communist party
was having difficulty in getting on
the ballot in many states and that
this discrimination constituted a
clear Infringement of democratic
rights.
The Daily Workers was the first
to call me a short and ugly word,
and, as matter of fact, the figures
which I used I took directly from
it's own columns without alteration.
Hereafter I shall be more careful of
my sources.
The campaign must be getting
hotter, because within three or four
days I have been called more names
than usual. And, somewhat to my
surprise. the bullets seem to be COM
ing from various directions.
In a single batch of mail am "a
Socialist, "a renegade Socialist"
worse than a Socialist, a red" "a
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hvgeia, the


Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
TINE attack on tuberculosis has
J. been thus far an economic at
tack. Realizing that it is primarily
q disease associated with bad hy-
giene, great Importance has been
placed on physical well being.
The treatment consisted largely
of good diet, sufficient rest, and
fresh air. Special attention was
paid to housing and types of en-
ployment, to the prices of food and
wages, since it has been shown that
a drop in wages usually is related
to an increase in tuberculosis.
In the United States the number
of beds available for patients with
this disease increased from 10000
in 1904 to $4,000 in 1882.
Moreover, there has been a ire
mendous growth in open air schools
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Daily Thoughts

Awake to righteousness, and sin
not; for some have not the kn0wI-
edge of God: / speak this to yeur
shame.-I Corinthians 1884.
Where lives the man that hath
not tried how mirth can into folly
glide. and folly into sin?- Sir Walter
Scott,
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If your alma mater loses an important football
game this year, you at least will have no trouble find
ing an excuse 1t probably will be the federal farm
boards fault
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Inc ghostly spirits of a Californian Indian tribe
are known as ikareyavs' and "dtaMibars" 1t sounds
a little bit like Notre Dame back field
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We do not remember the of the man who
discovered the elephant but the cartooniss seem to
have copyrighted the animal.
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People who have become tired of cutting grass all
summer can enjoy little variation now by raking
leaves.
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Don't worry if your name is not in the new who's
Who" Neither is Babe Ruths.
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The anniversary of the homesteaders race for
government land in the west reminds us that now a
lot of farmers running away from any kind of
land
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HEALTH
Delay Adds to Toll Of tuberculosis

This is the second of four articles by
DR.. Fishbein on sciences hope of stamp
ing out tuberculosis.
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TIT OEEMN TN MI ~ HAYWOOD
4 O4<14*40 \ ~ 4N1X d BROUN

j dirty Democrat" "a Demo-Social-
ist," Fascist" and "a plain, un-
vanished anarchist"
In fact, Nlave been called every
thing but "a Republican" or "a
partisan of Mr.. Hoover"
Men sometimes hold that when
all sides abuse you it is evidence
that you are extremely fair, impair
tial and good fellow. But I'm not
in the least impartial, and 1 have
very grave doubts about that good
fellow business.
Il don't think it is quite fair to
call me liar in regard to written
matters. I have taken mean adj
vantages at times and frequently
leaped too readily to conclusions.
But, on the whole, what 1 set down
in print measures up fairly closely
to what I sincerely feel and believe.
l wouldn't want to receive one
lash of the whip for every spot
along the boundary line at which
the written word didn't quite meas
ure up to the passionate conviction.
But let the man who has never
pulled a punch throw the first stone.
For Home Consumption
or course, in private life I lie
~ considerably, but it is done so
badly that it always gets found out
and therefore constitutes no great
sin.
My sin is something else again.
can believe in something up to
ninety-one and half per cent.
That's high enough. Hundred per-
centers in any cause are takers.
But when l try to expound the
reasons ? for my ardency and
allegiance, very often the listener
goes away with the impression that
was only fooling. Now, it can't be
that I'm as funny as all that.
Possibly total abstinence from
alcoholic liquors might help. Such
way of life would give me far less
f1uency, but somehow when you talk
earnestly while holding a glass in
one hand your message is dis
counted.
Only few nights ago sat next
banker, who asked me, why are
Evening star., 1932-05-20
DA1AD A4'AA ~ OAsAA1O ". Burgess.

coming from the direction where the
singing first stopped"
Presently a lone voice was heard.
Another joined in, and in a moment or
two the full chorus was singing as loudly
and as joyously as before. From the di-
rection of the Big River big bird, with
great. broad wings tapping slowly, and
long legs trailing straight out behind
like a tail, appeared
Here comes Longlegs the Great Blue
Heron" said Jerry. When he gets here
the singing will stop again. You watch
and see if it doesn't stop first just where
he alights."
Longlegs alighted in a marshy place
near the head of the Smiling Pool, right
where the singing was loudeSt. II
stopped instantly, and almost as quickly
it had stopped everywhere. Not peep
was to be heard. Longlegs stood notion
less. At last at the other end of the
pool voice was heard. and presently
the whole chorus was singing. Longlegs'
long neck suddenly shot forward and
down and his big bill picked up some
thing. The singing stopped the instant
he moved.
What did I tell you?" said Jerry.
"Only those near Longlegs could see
him move. yet the singing stopped all
over the Smiling Pool. When they gec
to singing again I'll stop them"
Jerry was as good as his word. When
the chorus was loudest he slipped into
the water. gently swan over near a
place where he knew some of the sing
ers we're and slapped the water with his
tail. Instantly sudden silence fell.
(Conyrirht Iq22
Evening star., 1932-05-20
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Why
Husbands
and Wires
Lie

CORRESPONDENT husbands and hbuay
n is they
tell the bitter taught them
u to avoid
Ananase SapphiaS by
they followed Truthful Johns
degades them feel
dishonest tarrydiddes
where they have been and what they had done
finds wife will the roof he tells
~ downtown with while
would perfectly aniable
Oshkosh husband
paid while will
don't told what they will They will
the price of truth
husbands liars other They literally
deces and prevaraons would
everything that
be the privilege of being perfectly ronk honest with other
IT penazed in
few fortunate able nothing does to
stabilize husband
be compelled to have secrets from each other.
Also it to have
application a
Furnishing
~ telling
Alice o
But Sammie Mamie rewarded telling the
would feeling
something
they doing and of guiding safe paths
DOROTHY DIX.
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Language and True Personality
By LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

and has garden learns botanical
words. A cook has to be acquainted
with culinary expressions. All these
are self-evident necessities Of the work
in which the person is engaged. Play
has its especial vocabulary belonging
to cards, foot ball, tennis, squash, etc
Whatever the occupation or recreation
the particular words become part OF
the vocabulary of the person.
This is rather staggering con-
sideration. Our very individuality
becomes tinged with the words and
what they mean. If it is true of these
things, it is equally true OF our inner
life. 1t has its own vocabulary If our
ideas are Sodden, our vocabulary is
menaced, and our personality becomes
tinged with the undesirable. If our
thoughts are beautiful, the language
of beauty becomes part of our person
ality. So ingrained does our vocabulary
become that to change 1t has been
deemed impossible.
1t Is cheerful thought that deter
mination to succeed and the will to
work toward higher ideas gradually sits
a vocabulary of the words which have
become part of ones individuality
These undesirable words are shed from
lack Of use. In their places come the
words of our finer vision, our clearer
thoughts. It is these we now are using
to ourselves and to those about us. 1t is
because our mental work and our at
titude change that a new vocabulary
comes to express our changed person.
ality.
While there can be no doubt that a
mans vocabulary is part Of his person.
ality, it is equally true that according to
what a man thinks so is he, and we all
have the opportunity to think such
beautiful thoughts that only beautiful
vocabulary can express our true selves,
cur real personality.
Copyright, 1927