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Questions and
Answers

Glow does the area and pop
ulation of the United States,
including Alaska, compare with
that of Canada?
A-The area of continental
United States and Alaska is $685.
1879 square miles and the popula-
ton is 122,834,324; the area OF
Canada is 3,69O,043 square miles
and the population is 353,778.
Q-What were the provisions OF
the Patman bill passed by the
house of representatives during
the last session of congress?
Att provided for issuance Of
paper money without any gold
or security backing to provide for
the payment of the bonus.
O-How many stores are con-
trolled by the F. w. Woolworth
company in the United States
and abroad?
AIT the end of 1881 they had
1908 stores in the United States,
Canada, and Cuba, 428 in Great
Britain and 60 in Germany.
Estate the population Of
Cleveland, o.
A-The 1880 census showed
9O0,429.
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IN Which I Play the Craven

WAS about to suggest that the lady would do
actor who played the grow increasingly
oentng public aw Many ago say sharply woman
in front of will please
upon me the counenane of the fao wife
poyers
JUSTICE righteous and passion for artistic integrity
all on my side And acute
trs-nlght audience at Autumn of
laughter because Francis Lederer
1a during scene which he playing uperb gentleman
'front.' row at the opening of The
ms head every ten minutes and shouted the
F - ~
IL wasn't really good all that
have seen and heard the of the company
1t is hard to find silver
possible Chat the tneater be pleasant
-Four Hundred has been reduced
Copyright Times)
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AWaken to Sham

THE gigantic, complicated, ex-
L pensive mechanism was sup
posed to safeguard us physically,
financially and morally. With
the federal reserve banking sys-
tenn, the Volstead act, and a
multitude of bureaus, we were
supposed to have been placed well
out Of harms reach.
We liked the performance, be-
cause we were told that it was
safe, sane and conservative. We
realized that it represented de-
parture from the original ideas,
but consoled ourselves with the
thought that it was just a modern
Interpretation of them.
Twelve years of rum-running
and three years of depression
have walked us up to the sham
for which we fell.
There was nothing sincere,
wholesome, nor constructive about
it, nothing that really made the
average man any better or any
happier. On the Otner mana,
there was a great deal to make
him miserable.
The inflated values, stock wat
ering, racketeering and political
corruption with which we have
been afflicted can not be blamed
on world conditions. They came
about mainly as results of our
own folly, and the foolish expert
menting we not only permitted,
but encouraged, on the part of
government is mainly to blame.
The recent election was real
protest, not SO much against a
candidate, or a party, as against
a drift. We are going back to
liberty and self-reliance.
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SCIENCE
Hears Self Lecture
BY DAVID DIETz

DURING the last five years
~ have lectured some hundreds
Of times upon the subject of as
tronomy. The other day, for the
first time, I had the unique ex-
perience of sitting in the audience
and listening to myself deliver an
illustrated lecture on the stars.
The experience was made pos
sible by device known as the
visual voice." developed by A. T.
Fischer, president of the Visual
Training Corporation of Cleve-
land.
In one small unit, the instru-
ment combines means for project
ing series of pictures upon the
screen while the lecturers voice,
previously recorded, issues from a
loud speaker.
A lecture, once recorded, can be
given any number of times, and,
in addition, without the presence
of the lecturer.
1t is possible, therefore, to reach
a far larger audience through it
than any lecturer ever can hope
to reach in person.
The story back Of the visual"
voice is interesting. For twenty
five years, Fischer has been an
advertising and merchandising
expert. Among the problems With
which he has dealt has been the
training of sales personnel. In
this work he found that an idea
was aSsimilated quickest if it
could be presented both usually
and orally.
Fischer's hobbies have been
globe-trotting and photography,
and he has taken thousands Of
pictures in all parts Of the world.
These ne turned into stereopti-
con slides with which to entertain
his friends, building miniature
theater in his own home.
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Every Day Religion
: BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

1T does not matter much what
l. people say about us, irritating
as it sometimes is. If they are not
talking about us, they will be
talking about someone else.
A whispering campaign of some
Kind always is going on. OF more
Importance is what we say, or do
not say, about others, in that it
reveals what we are. At times a
silence on our part can be more
cruel than a cutting bit Of Cos
sip.
No, what really matters, and
often determines all the rest, is
what we say to ourselves, and
about ourselves, in the secret
place of our own SOUL 1t is this
inner conversation, this private
gossip, that counts, as regards
both our happiness and usefulness
in life. Often We say of friend,
HE is in a state of mind" and
we go to talk him out of it,"
How did he get that way? He
talked himself into it, perhaps
without realizing what he was
doing. In the back of his own
mind he kept saying sad or
cynical thing about himself, until
at last he came to believe it.
=
T EFT a man begin to say to
- himself in the solitude of his
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Work Swept Aside

OUR forefathers were far
~ ahead OF their time, and we
must go back where they left off,
to be up to date. They set up
a very simple and, therefore, a
very workable form of government.
They surrounded it with checks
and balances to provide the great
est possible degree of personal
liberty and local freedom.
The last fifty years has seen
much of their work swept aside
in the name of political conserva-
tism, business efficiency, and eX-
pert management. Government
has come to be a thing of annoy
ance and restraint.
1t has entered the home and the
workshop, becoming a wet blanket
in its efforts to act as wet nurse.
The petty tyranny and rising cost
of public administration amount
to little less than handicaps to
individual success.
People find it hard to live nor
NAL lives and pursue normal &C
tivities without running foul of
some regulation, or official.
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all possible information about it. MRS FERGUSON
Business and professional men are aware that
something is going on at the other side of the
world of which they not afford to be ignorant.
Economists and students, travellers and schol-
ars, are not ignoring venture that is stranger
than anything that has emanated from the hope
full dreams of men since the bastine fell.
ID USSIA is vast domain. 1t comprises one-sixth
N of the earth's surface and nurtures 161 millions
of people 1t possesses every phase Of climate
the distinctly tropical
1t has every material resource and every variety
of timber and cereal. It is nearly sef-sustaning
as any other power, with the possible exception of
Great Britain.
Can sensible nation afford to overlook these
facts? And even If we could bring ourselves to such
an extreme folly, does 1t not exhibit Unreasonable
stupidity to shut our eyes to certain governmental
innovations now going there, simply because We
may disapprove themP
For something new is coming out of Russia. An
almost steady stream Of ideas, literature,
new blunderngs toward high goal, new ways of
thinking and of living. whole new sense of values
Most of these things may fail But for us to
laueh at them seems to almost as silly as the
foolish merriment that followed the glorious though
futile effort at Kitty Hawk not so many years ago.
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Keeping the Talk Alive

TTHEN there have something great
discussion during the dinner hardly
pie to stop simply because there is performer the speaking
lines And worst Of ALL the appreciation of
1t misfortune the other
just behind lady who the
her three friends to know how much she
the whole world fact she
who wouldn't take anything their of humor.
When of the Russian characters the
claimed Nov, isn't
wonder where they you quaint
Fred agreed that she quaint
But the lady habblcd You think
funniest plays
We really must tel PLAYS
the peasant Did
how much he say without any a all"
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Built Laboratory

4 S with other lecturers, there
IA came a time when he wished
that he had some one who would
do the talking for him, and three
years ago the idea occurred to
him that there was place in
the business and educational
world for some such device.
He built a small laboratory and
undertook experimental work to
develop a device that would COM
bine, properly and economically,
voice and pictures.
Associated with Fischer in de-
velopment of the technical side
of the program was Harry A.
Chase, an expert photographer,
who likewise is a globe-trotter and
who had accompanied Lowell
Thomas to Arabia, where the two
Of them were with the famous
Lawrence of Arabia"
The three years work came to
a successful conclusion with the
perfection of the visual voice" a
small unit. light in weight, about
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-03

This is the fourth of series OF SIX
articles by Dr. Fishbein on the preYen-
ton and treatment of diphtheria.
DURING the first few days OF
- diphtheria the child should
have a liquid diet as nourishlng
as possible, including plenty OF
milk and eggnog and cereals.
Thereafter its diet may be I'M
proved gradually, particularly
with substances that will aid the
rebuilding of blood which may
have been injured by the infec-
ton.
In the prevention Of diphtheria
in recent years, chief reliance has
been placed on the use of the
Schick test, on toxin-antitoxin
and on toxoid. The Schick test is
simply a method of injecting a
very small amount Of the toxin OF
diphtheria into the skin.
Those persons who can develop
antitoxin in their blood, against
the diphtheria poison viii have a
negative test.
On the other hand. those who
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do not have antitoxin or who can
not develop it will have positive
Schick test.
In positive Schick test, the
spot at which the toxin was in
jected becomes red and slightly
raised within twenty-four to
forty-eight hours.
The application Of Schick tests
in thousands of cases has shown
that about 8 per cent of newly
born and young infants are sus-
ceptible to diphtheria, which
means that they are likely to be-
come infected if exposed to the
disease. '.t-''''.-
The remainder are not likely to
have the disease at. this early age,
because they have from their
mothers : certain amount of re-
Sistance to the disease.
This gradually is lost, however,
80 that from 80 per cent to 40 per
cent Of children viii be susceptible
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conservative, but radical in the
wrong direction. Law and public
policy have been altered greatly
since the Civil war, but they have
been altered in such way as put
them out of tune with the origi-
nal conception.
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Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

II kept that probably many millions out
II of pocket, the fact that the United States
of America does not officially recognize the United
States of Soviet Russia may not be of momentous
consequence 1t merely signifies that, as usual, the
politician is three or four jumps behind his con-
stituents in mental alertness.
Plainly speaking, America does recognize Russia.
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NJ E. Tracy Says @ OF s4TE OFF E5 co

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-The re-
L form movement now sweeping
this country comes as a natural
by-product of depression, but runs
counter to what some people eX-
pected. There is no red cast to it.
Instead of calling for novel ex-
periments, it breathes a new and
hardened faith in old American
principles. What else can you
make of the demand for repeating
the eighteenth amendment, or the
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That is the American people ac-
cord her literary, artistic and So
Geological recognition.
The Russian experiment has
been the subject of more CONVEX
sation, has had more study and
more thought given it during the
last few years than almost any
other topic. Thousands of wom-
ems club have made and are max
ing a determined effort to gather
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Sfrl1Cn plan Tor
revising the gov
eminent of New
York City, or
President Ell e C t
Roosevelt's deter
mination to re-
duce the number
of federal boards
and commissions?
All this brings
to mind the curl
Gus paradox of
our situation.
Conservatism is
not the steady
ing, S t a n d p a t
force for which
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it has been taken. 1t has steered
the ship Of state far from her
course. This America of ours is
not the political structure it was
seventy-five or even fifty years
ago. Three generations have seen
it change from a liberal republic
to centralized bureaucracy.
We are going back for our re-
forms, and we must to be truly
progressive. We have not been
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1t Seems to Me:
BY HEY WOOD ROUN

TTERE and there have heard complaints that
< i the theater of today is not everything
which it should be. In my opinion, New York
doesn't deserve drama even half as good as it
gets.
1t generally is held that the stage is suffer-
ing because people stay away from the play
houses 1 only can say that on many evenings
1 have sat next to patrons who would help the
art of acting nightly by remaining at home.
q lnracr eynerierne seldom have saer, had
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When the Drama Was Silent

the habit audible blamed
~ that people kept
fire picked the trick while reading the captions
when the pictures arculate
the patrons quickly became silent
rudene in the big motion picture
thaer than the where the Legitimate does exactly
usher who 90 in for rniliar fnr-
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JOBS PREFERRED; BUT

Members of the Ohio Manufacturers Association
casting sonber eyes at the proposal for compulsory
unemployment insurance recently made in their
state, have announced that the difference between
such a scheme and an outright dole is "only the
difference between tweedle dee and tweedlee dunn;
and their spokesman has pointed out:
THE average American citizen who at this mo-
ment may be in need desires job, not charity The
exception, who prefers charity to work, deserves
little consideration"
All Of which, of course, is as clear as daylight and
as true as twice two-is-four But what of itP This
average American may prefer job to a handout,
but he has peculiar distaste for starvation
If he demands now that the next depression find
industry with some well-defned plan for caring for
its workers. is it greatly to be wondered atP
Now that Toxic announces "Manchukuo" should
be spelled "Manchoukuo," most of us will go on
calling it Manchuria just the same
Huey Long says he has no particular explanation
for his rapid rise in politics Probably will go down
as another unsoved mystery
The machine age has made most things lot
easier. but the old black walnut's just as much
problem as ever.
Since football has lost its monopoly on the sports
pages the well-known setting will have to cast
its golden rays wherever 1t can and place
1t may be small consolation to the jobless man.
but he should be told that efficiency experts are in
the same boat with him.
Whatever else the year may bring, you can
count on calendars of that shy Indian girl and the
roaring locomotive.
With toys more realistic than ever, we needn't
be surprised if Junior grows more skeptical of the
way Santa's whiskers fit.
The philosophic soul who started this better late
than never" business must have done his Christmas
shopping early.
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quite they today And this particularly
opening
fashionable audience" happens present.
ratio
sits down in front
bet that she will be somebody whose will
before the first act ends.
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half the size of an ordinary suit
case.
1t is operated by connecting it
to any convenient electric light
socket and turning on the switch.
Educators always have had their
eyes upon mechanical devices
which would aid their work. The
stereopticon has been a part of
the college classroom for genera
tons. 1t is used to a lesser ex-
tent in high schools and perhaps
only occasionally in grammar
schools.
But its use is on the increase,
and in Cleveland, for example,
the school system maintains an
educational museum which de-
votes a large part of its effort to
circulation of sets of stereopti-
con pictures through the schools.
Other Devices
THE photograph also has
4 found its way into education
to a certain extent. It's chief use
has been in the field of music,
making available for music APP
probation classes the works Of
the great masters as played by
famous orchestras and soloists.
Attempts, however, have been
made to use the photograph in
other fields. Recently Science
Service made a series of phono-
graph records Of short talks by
eminent scientists.
The motion picture also has
appealed to many educators.
Travel pictures and news reels
themselves undoubtedly possess
considerable educational value.
Just recently the University OF
Chicago has undertaken to make
a number of talking movies deal
ing with physics and chemistry.
Fischer believes that the visual
voice" possesses a number of adj
vantageS over the talking movie.
He points out that the making
for a talking movie is expensive
and that projection equipment
also is fairly high in price.
He also calls attention to the
fact that many educators feel that
they get better results from
classes by the use of stereopticon
views than they do with motion
pictures.
In other words, the motion
diverts the attention of the
student from the essentials upon
which the eacher wishes him to
concentrate.
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Daily Thought

Verify, verify, say unto you, he
that believeth on me hath ever
lasting life.-St. John CAT.
COLITUDE is the audiences
- chamber Of God.-Anne c.
Lynch.
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Ideals and opinions
expressed In this
column are those of
one Of Americas
m ost interesting
writers and are
presented without
regard to their
agreement with the
editorial attitude of
this pape r.-The
Editor.
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nations are much more ready to admonsh the
boisterous.
OF course, the problem of the managers is
not easy 1t distracts attention all around to
"shuSh" loud speaker during a dramatic scene.
But I think that for the peace of mind Of all
actors and true theater lovers something drastic
should be done.
I would have the managers band together in
a compact to make public example Of the next
arrant offender. I wouldn't mind having the
curtain lowered for two minutes during tense
scene if had the privilege of watching some
Park ayenue narrnt and her stuffed shirt escort
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carried the aisle thrown alley entirely
class I'll admit have proetarans who
as fellow audience believe weo
do tranSgreS often those who
at the play little before 10 who trouble
OF course the action we'll advanced the time
but first they must through formay greeting
the audience forgetting kindly those
sitting in distant
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Now that Toxic announces "Manchukuo" should
be spelled "Manchoukuo," most of us will 60 on
calling it Manchuria just the same
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :
BY. Dr.. NORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Mediea
Association and Of Hygeian, the
Health Magazine
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This is the fourth Of series OF So
GRIZZLIES nv DR.. Fishbein on the proven
ton and treatment of diphtheria.
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Huey Long says he has no particular explanation
for his rapid rise in politics Probably will go down
as another unsolved mystery.
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The machine age has made most things lot
easier. but the old black wanuts just as much a
problem as ever.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09
YALE GETS INVITE
 TO WINTER FETES

New Haven, Dec 9-The SC Nicholas club of New York, famous for its hockey teams, will play Yale tomorrow afternoon in the Arena at 4 o'clock. The entire starting lineup of the St Nicks will be made up of former Yale players and many of the spares who will be brought up with the New York club, have worn the blue of the Ellis in previous hockey seasons.
 Frank Farrel, goal tender for three years and olympic goalie last year at Lake Placid, will be In front of the cage with Beard res serve for that position. Beard also is a former Yale player. Captain Johnnie Whitfield of last years team, one of the best defense men Yale has had in years, will be at left defense and his running mate, Jack Winter, will start at right dee fense: Breckenridge who was a good wingman two years ago, and Johnnie Goodman will be in the wing positions. Nelson, center on Yale's championship team of 193N- 31, will start at center. These six players, all Yale men, have been working together more or less reg ularly a month in New York and should put up fine exhibition on the ice against their former team mates and the other new members of the Yale sextet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-09
RECREATION LEAGUE
 RUMBLINGS

The Red Sox who have been strengthened by tho services of Assetta. the Oakville pin toppler, made clean sweep of their 3 games over "Swede Larson's" slipping Giants.
 The Cubs, with their battle cry or Down with the Pirates' star ted out to take 3 games from the leading Pirate team. After losing the first two games, Capt. Zirn shea Of the Pirates went into q "huddlc" with his teammates. The result of this bit of strategy was Pirates 572, Cubs 53e. (Where was AIS tie the third. game.)
 Jimmie Barber's high single of l40 and high three of SIT was tho reason for the Yankees ? to vic- tory over Rudy Hamels Tigers.
 Some fine bowling by Bobby HamcI and Johnnie Brick enabled the Athletics to take 2 from the Braves.
 On our "honor roiP' this week we find Barber 377, A. Hamel 365, J. Brick 359. Lavallo 366, Pied monte 356. Wynn 345, Hayes 345, Assetta 344, and Byrnes $40.
 Tommy. the Cubs ''chcer lea derv, had one of his best nights hitting the naples for S3O and boosting his average to within m few pins o the 100 mark.
 With only games d Inference between the first and last place teams tho schedule for this week should see the teams battling 1t out for an even closer race.