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Atomic Birth Cries

THE mystery of these "penetrat-
Il ing radiations," as thew were
called, remained matter of con-
Germ to small group of scientists
only, until DR.. Millikan made them
front page news in 1925.
1t was DR.. w. D. Macmillan of the
University of Chicago. who was re-
sponsible for Millikan's interest in
the rays.
Mlllikan had formerly been on the
staff of the University of Chicago
In TACT, it was there that he carried
on his famous experiment to isolate
the eIectron.
DR.. Macmillan formulated
theory of the universe in which
space was regarded as a gigantic
factory in which spent energy or
radiation was again concentrates
into atoms of matter.
IL occurred to Macmillan and
Mlllikan that perhaps the "nene-
tratlng radiations" would bear ont
this theory. Accordingly, DR.. Mill
kan undertook their study.
He became convinced that these
rays did bear out MacNS;lIon,s
theory, that they we're the obirtb
cries of atoms taking shape in the
lar reaches of space, that thew were
waves like X-rays, only thousands
OF times shorter and more nene~
trating. pehe-
- But But now DR.. Compton. after q
oO.OOO-mile journey to study the
rays from the mountain-tons If Ave
countries, is convinced that the ravs
are swiftly moving particles nrob-
ABLY nlgh-speed electrons
Ihese electrons, moving with oroot
speeds in the upper atmospbere
generate very penetrating x-ravs as
d secondary effect, he thinks
He also thinks that the ravv NAV
pe IN some way the result of the
suns influence upon the earth,s at
nospnere, just as the aurora
ooreahs or northern lights" are
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ever mas done more harm than the one which says
tnat men are motivated solely by desire to please
one inoivioual woman or that their straning after
tame ana fortune is done because they want to place
these trophies at their true loves feet
Inns Is glamorous hangover from Arthurian
legend It has no verihcation in real life
Because, for every charming damsel whom some
great King Midas is throbbing to enrich there are
dozens OF faithful faded odish ladies who have been
abandoned to their fate by these same kings as soon
as more glittering lure was Spied.
The most powerful figures in history have con-
sdered women as mere incidents in their careers,
notably Napoleon, who is admired universally by
men.
90 we can not settle questions of economic social
justice for women by the bland assumption that men
are susceptible to fairness and attery any more than
we can say that all is well with the world because
MI. Rockefeller Is not broke.
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road, arm in arm, talking together
In the ecstasy Of the spring morning
pausing now to look into the face of
flower, now to listen to the song
of a bird.
They went through the village and
up the hill on the other side, and
then retraced their steps to the
monastery gate, without stopping.
Whereupon the Brother said to
Francis: But I thought we were
going to preach today"
"Ah, we have preached" said
Francis: I'VE have been happy to-
gether in the spring sunlight. We
have walked among men, they have
seen our joy in God and His world
that is or sermon for today" AL
of us felt that Mark Twain was
thinking of the kind of sermon he
had preached, as he had walked up
and down the years.
We felt, too that he had preached
a good sermon. We thought Of Tom
Huck, Becky, Injun Joe, the Duke
and all the rest of the glorious
company which he had created for
our JOY. We remembered his sor-
rows, and how the death of little
Suesy took the light out of his life
Yes, it Is easy enough to preach
a good sermon, but it is not easy to
preach sermon that does any
good.
downright. 1882. United Feature syndicatel
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SaCCo and VanZetti

DUT today I went back along the
D paths which wind between the
little mounds with one definite OBJ
ject in view. I saw that A. Law
renee Lowell had resigned the presi-
dency of Harvard university, and I
wanted to look at the two columns
wrote upon the Sacco-Vanzettl
case at the time Mr.. Lowell was one
of the three appointed by the Gov
ernor to submit recommendation
upon the case.
Time dulls even the sharpest edge
of recollection so rapidly that but
for gazing back through the scrap
books I hardly would have remem-
bered the full roll call of that adj
viSory board-Lowell and Stratton
and Grant.
I wanted to see if I felt today
precisely as I did when 1 spoke OF
"Hangman's House" and earned re-
buke in leading editorial of the
Times, which identified me as no
better than a bomb-thrower.
I wanted to see if in looking back
I could capture anything of the rage
which led me to tear up my jour-
nalistic roots of many years stand
ing.
A few years ago as I was leaving
a hall where I had debated with a
Communist, sympathizer of my
opponent screamed at me, Every
thing you said tonight gave the lie
to what YOU wrote about Sacco and
Vanzetti."
And on very many occasions
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE


1t should be large enough to have
plenty of light and good ventilation
and small enough to permit proper
control of drafts.
Unnecessary furniture, bric-a-
brac, pictures and similar materials
should be removed from the sick
room.
Since much infection is hand to
mouth infection, the knobs of the
door leading into the sick room
should be cleansed thoroughly daily
Dishes, bedding, and clothing as
ISOLATED with the sick person must
be boiled after use. The room should
be kept clean by wiping from time
to time with damp cloth.
Dry sweeping spreads dust which
may carry infectious material. It
sometimes is advisable to purchase
cheap spoons, dishes, paper napkins
and towels and similar materials
which may be thrown away after
the patient RECEIVERS.
1t is preferable that just one per-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26
Cling to Exploded Idea


nUR legislatures spend about half
" their time these days trying
to soften or stultify ridiculous stat
utes, and what they leave undone
in this respect is more than made
up for in the laxity of judges, prose-
cutors and peace officers.
The point is, of course, that our
legal structure does not square with
public opinion or custom. Many OF
the statutes we adopt are not hon
estly believed in by the man who
vote for them. In many Instances
they are not even understood.
We have acquired the habit of
turning out law in about the same
basis that we turn out automobiles
or vacuum cleaners. In the first
place, we regard 1t as by-product
of invention; in the second, as
something that can be manufac-
tured, and in the third as a proper
commodity for mass production.
We pride ourselves on quantity
rather than quality. Worst of all,
we cling to the exploded idea that
human nature can be changed by
statute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-26

A Passion for Making LdaCs
Has Led to an Indifference
ToaOard Their Enforcement.
Saws

TOlCGrd Their enforcement.
NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-Repeal Of
IN nationwide prohibition will
fail to accomplish what it should
unless accompanied by general
revision of statutory law and jul
dicial procedure throughout this
country.
The eighteenth amendment and
Volstead act were not isolated eX-
amples of bad legislation. They rep
resent a tendency which has af-
flicted this country since it was
established, and which manifestS it
self not only in a mountainous vol
ume of rules and regulations, but
in such widespread lawlessness as
exists in no other civilized land.
The criminal record of the United
States is disgraceful. We have more
murder, theft, arson, embezzlement
and forgery to the square foot than
England or France has to the square
yard.
Most of the bill is paid by in
surance of various forms, but that
does not cover the moral loss.
AS should have been foreseen,
passion for making laws has led to
indifference toward its enforcement.
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Every Day Religion
: BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

WTHEN Mark Twain made his
w last visit to the Tom Sawyer
country, few friends waylaid him
in st. Louis, and gave him din
ner. It was an evening no one can
ever forget. The old man was in
a dismal mood, full of sad, sweet
memories of long ago.
In repose his face always was sad,
even when he told his best jokes
his humor like white caps on deep
sea of melancholy.
After the dinner, Mark Twain
preached a sermon, saying that he
was as reverend as anybody and
had a right to preach if he wanted
to. He took as his text story
from the life of st. Francis, his
best-loved hero, next to Joan of
Arc, whom he called "the foremost
member of the human race"
At IL years Of age he saw loose
leaf from book fiuttering in the
street. picked it up and read it. 1t
was all about ST. Joan, and it start
ed him studying her life, which
finally resulted in his book about
her, which all the world has read.
THE story he took for his text
L told how Francis said to one of
the Brothers in the monastery. Let
US go into the village and preach
today" So they set OF down the
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SCIENCE.
BY DAVID DIETZ,

Able Investigators Disagree
IN Their Vie,US ON the Cos
mic Ray.
CCIENTISTS are beginning to
- wonder what will happen when
DR.. Robert A. Millikan and DR..
Arthur H. Compton, Americas fore
most authorities on cosmic rays &C.
cupy the same platform at the an
nual meeting the American ASCOT
alton for the Advancement of
Science. For the two are drifting
farther and farther apart in their
view on the rays.
They are scheduled, along with
other eminent physicists, to take
part in a symposium on cosmic rays
when the A. A. A. S. assemblies in
Atlantic City during the days be-
tween Christmas and New Years.
Speaking few days ago at
meeting of the National Academy of
Science, DR.. Compton said, in effect,
that he was convinced that the cos
mic rays were not coSmic at all. but
that they originated in our own at
moSphere.
1t was before this same organiza-
ton at meeting seven years ago.
that DR.. Millikan announced the
result of his experiments which
brought him to the conclusion that
the rays were cosmic, entering the
earth'S atmosphere from the far
reaches of stellar space.
Both Jeans and Eddington,
famous British astronomers, have
subscribed to Millikan's view of the
origin of the rays, though they dis
agree with him upon their sig
nificance in the scheme of the uni
verse.
DR.. Compton, by his new pro-
nouncement, brings the world of
science back to the early days of the
present century when the rays were
known as the penetrating rays of
the atmosphere.
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rather than bestow them. The very
fact that the memory of column adj
diets is less than that of elephants
has enabled me to exc out stint
on several hard days.
BY doing a new first paragraph
and adding local reference it
often is possible to make some
pressed flower pass for blossom
just coming into bud. Every col
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n e W S p a p e r re-
marks of last year
or b e y on d that
time are vital.
I have held a
mirror up to COL
umns not more
than a week old
and detected no
sign of mist upon
the glass.
None of this is
said in a spirit of
complaint. M o S t
of my browsing is
not in the nature
of a sentimental
excursion to old
t m BIS. I go to
o. q. I. her flowers
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Do Economists Provide Social Leadership?


Dean McBain laments the general absence of pub
This suggests the question of why the PROFESSIONAL
economists have been reniss in coming forward
with fortnight plans for mitigating or ending the de-
preston
We have been in the midst of a devastating eco
nomic crisis for three years. 1t golden oppor-
tunity for the professional economists to seize intel
lectual leadership when practical business men and
nanciers proved unequal to their powers and respon
sbilities.
Why did they fail to take advantage of this unique
opportunity to enhance their prestige and po-
sitionP The Nation puts this question up to the
economists with blunt directness
Professor Claudius Murchison presents spirited
defense:
There is not single economist in the world, be he
red pink liberal who did not see long ago the in
fanny of the economic aspects of the treaty of Yer
salles or who would defend the present tariff policy
Of the United States, or who would advocate the
forced maintenance of the present forms of COMPETE
ton in the coal industry who would oppose public
regulation of employment of women and children in
industry, or Standardization of the working week for
production activities. adoption of workmens
compensation and old-age insurance"
There might, perhaps, be less agreement among
the PROFESSIONAL economists concerning stock specu-
lation investment trusts, instament buying public
control Of electrical utilities progressive taxation and
the like.
An example of the flop" Of the economists was af-
forded by Professor F. w. Taussig in his article on
Doctors Economists and the Depression in recent
number Of Harpers.
Anybody familiar with Professor Taussigs distin-
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Climbed Eiffel lower
status of the cosm

DRESENT status of the cosnic
l. ray situation recently was
summed up by DR.. Thomas H.
johnson Of the Bartol Research
Foundation, Swarthmore, Pa. DR..
johnson is one of the expert inves-
tigators in the field and the inyen-
tor of apparatus used to detect the
rays. He says:
Never before in the history of
science has there been a subject
about which so many able investi-
gators have disagreed"
For the beginning of the cosmic
ray story we must go back to the
beginning Of the century. X-rays
rad1o-ativity and radium were dis
covered in the closing years of the
nineteenth century.
AT the beginning of the present
century, it was discovered that
may mineral deposits and manv
mineral springs were radioactive.
They gave off rays which cleo
trlhed or 'ionized," to use the
technical word, the atmosphere
oclenClSUS began measuring this
lonization of the atmosphere which
is due to radioactive materials in
the earth's crust.
Then Professor Theodore WuJf
a Jesuit scientist, carried his oh
serving apparatus to the top of the
Eiffel tower in Paris.
The instrument recorded less ion
lzation than on the ground, which
was just what he expected. The
decrease, however, was not as great
as he expected.
In 1910, Professor Gockel. a Swiss
physicist, decided to go I'D in a
balloon. At height of $4,000 feet
ne found the ionization greater than
on the ground. Other scientists
tried the same thing, particularly
Professors Hess and Kolhorster
They found that Gockel was right
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.


ONLY minimum number of all
" cases of measles, scarlet fever,
diphtheria, and other communicable
diseases can be given attention in
hospitals. The vast majority of
such cases must be taken care of
in the home, and in most instances
by the mother.
She is concerned with the ques-
tlon of preventing spread of the
condition to other children of the
family or to other persons.
The health officer of Wilmington,
Del, recently outlined certain min
imal procedures that should be fol-
lowed by mothers, taking care of
children with infectious disease.
The room selected for the child
should be one preferably in close
contact with a bathroom, and one
rather out of the line of travel of
the people in the house.
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Now there are, I admit, a few
scattered members of our sex who
have been endowed by nature with
charm and beauty and wit and
who, by Skillful use of these quail
tiles, are able to get most anything
from men.
But please let ME remind you
that the majority of us are not
so fortunate. We are neither love-
~, fascinating, nor clever. It is
Tor these that I speak.
.
MANY false theories have been
I'VE Lat lnnca or1o,n -
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Just Every Day Sense
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

~ ME dear ladies' writes New York correspond
ent on the subject of economic establishments
have nothing to fear. No matter what label nav he
put upon their aLotments lin life the whole works bag
and baggage, is in the palms of their lovely hands
This is very familiar sentiment. 1t is the care
less, patronizng male gesture which would have us
believe that women in general flock of glorified
beauties and may have anything on earth for a little
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would be less than four-souare with
the facts. "A''A
1t would have been possible IN
recruit in the Massachusetts If that
day an army Of Lowells. Probably
you could today. And in that army
many of the humble would enlist
Prejudice and passion are not re-
stricted to any set station in life.
The poor fish peddler and the
good shoemaker were victims of
hate. know that more hate viii
not bring them back, I think that
more hate will mean more victims.
I no longer believe that out of
even righteous hate we can distil
the force to make world of justice
and Of mercy. That's my s0ftness,
and I'm going to stick to it.
lcoDyright. 1889. bY Ths Tlmesl
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY HR REg1fS

LIVERY once in so often I browse
~ among the forgotten works of
an obscure American author named
Haywood Broun.
Nor is obscure" said with any
mock humility. A column of to-
day or tomorrow might conceivably
touch upon some aspect of current
events and command hearing. But
surely no one will argue that the
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Along the Abstract Spine

pY far it is better to ignore these
D concrete countenances and find
a spot well down the spine into
which to stick your knife. There
is less JOY in combat when you go
up against something as abstract
as backbone which has neither a.
first name nor a last. But that's
the way to win.
The cruel and curious decision
reached in the case of Sacco and
Vanzetti was compounded not out
of a conspiracy of three or even
three thousand. 1t capitalized As
many complex things as devotion
to the war, prejudice against the
foreigner, fear of the radical.
Burke once said that it was i'm
possible to indict whole nation.
And yet any indictment which men
toned only the four or five who sat
IN power and neglected the temper
Of the entire Massachusetts, COM
lnunity where the trial was held
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Ideals ard opinions expressed
In this column are those of
one of Americas most inter-
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
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Into the Back of the Book


a ND have not always succeeded
4 n IN sweeping these accusations
out of my mind. Indeed, when !
looked into the back of the book
today did so with definite pur-
pose OF refreshing my spirit and nv
memory and striking out once more
at an old man who did a great
wrong.
But I decided not to. The fact
That Mr.. Lowell nearS the age of rs
mas nothing to do with it. I have
aged at least as rapidly during the
years between.
And it would be quite impossible
Tor me to capture once again a
mood in which I wrote phrases
which served as slogans on dancing
banners in Union square.
If I were back in those DAYS 7
might say the same things all over
again. In looking at the violence
OF my expression I was a little sur
priScd, but not in any sense ashamed
or apologize. I meant every word
Of it.
But I am older and fatter now
and much more soft. My whole
idea of human motivation and of
the nature of the broad road to
salvation has changed utterly. No
longer do I believe that the fight
lies with certain individual tyrants
and gross villains.
OF course, it is easier to stir up
yourself and any within the sound
OF your voice by directing your at
TACK at some specific personality
rather than the environment from
which he came. But it is as fruit
less and wasteful business as chop
ping heads from a hydra.
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Daily Thought

For the priests lips should keen
EnoWiedge, and they should seek
Ine law at his mouth; for he is the
messenger of the Lord of hosts
Malachi 81.
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The Hastings Plan


Senator Daniel O. Hastings of Delaware is a con-
servative Republican an ex-supreme court Justice an
ex-dry His proposal that the coming session of con-
gress refuse further funds for dry enforcement in wet
states therefore must be taken seriously
Seventeen states either have refused to enact state
enforcement laws repealed their dry acts or voted bv
referendum to repeal the eighteenth amendment
why, asks Hastings, should the federal government
spend big sums trying to enforce a law in nonco
operative states where there never was chance to
make it effective?
obviously congress should not nullify law for the
whole country before the country repeals it, Rut if
Is neltner Justice nor economy to keep on pouring en-
1ofcement money into states that reject enforcement
10 continue to spend upward of $40000O0 year
on FEDERAL enforcement" in the seventeen nonco-
operative states is unfair and wasteful
IL Is unfair to the 100000 people of the wet
SVaCeS 10 foSt enforcement upon them against their
Wills 1nese wet states have been bearing more than
'ner snare OF the enforcement burden for fourteen
years now since they are among the more populous
OF the nations family and pay more into the federal
treasury.
IN erect they have told the government thew want
0ner own money spent productive enterprises
IL is WaStetul, and particularly So at time when
every revenue dollar must be made to work f,,ll time
for the public good
1here is no money in the United States treasury
except for the barest necessities of government ven
now we are heavily in the red and are BORROWING
money to run the government and to feed our hungry
MUST we rob these essential services in a vain en-
oeaVor to enforce uncomfortable law in states thu.
have rejected the law?
Governor Roosevelt say the experts. will have i.
A'Ole important role than President Hoover in the
next short session of congress. Mavbe that's 49,
reason photographer caught Hoover smiling
ana wnen beer comes back thereu be the prob
lem of unemployed crooks
hoioup men usually take things calmly If their
victim happens to be unarmed
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seldom ever was any knowledge
gwen 10 keep, but to inpart; the
grace OF this rich jewel Is lost in
Observation-Disclosures Hall.
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scrawled postcards and notes have
repeated that same charge. What
mas become of the fire you had
just once? Why don't you write any
more columns like those about Sacco
and Vanzetti? You're getting old:
you're getting fat; you're getting
soft. You don't care about any
thing any more because you've got
a job and good living"
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umnist numbers among his treas
ures some very hardy ANIMALS.
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hoioup men usually take things calmly If their
victim happens to be unarmed
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ana wnen beer comes back thereW be the prob.
lem OF unemployed crooks.