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Burdened with a load Of pollu-
ton from a distillery, its scummy
top barely ripples toward its
mouth, the Ohio river.
Flanking one side of the creek
are the busy distilleries of Jo-
seph Seegram g. Sons and the
the Quaker Company. Carloads
Of whisky, manned by company
guards, are switched in and out
of right-of-ways by roaring en-
gines.
Coming upon the town of Law
renceburg at night one is choked
by the odorous creek only to re-
ceive a cleaner molasses odor in
a daytime visit to one of the dis
tilleries.
The sewer spillway at the Sea-
gram plant, where approximately
eight hundred men work, dis
charges, according to a test by
The Indianapolis Times, 100000
bacillus coli per 100 cubic cent?
luGLtlS AllJO dAlllCl , NlCChs
TWO miles north of the distil-
Il leries the creeks bed is shall
low but pure. Only 100 B. coli
per 100 cubic centimeters show at
the creeks head.
Four miles from the creeks
mouth by road is the town of
Aurora pumping its water from
the Ohio river.
A laboratory sample. taken at
the water pumping station, shows
that the diStillery pollution, al
though diluted by the mammoth
Ohio, carries 10000 B. coli per 100
cubic centimeterS.
Youths swim in the Ohio at
the point where the sample was
taken. Two misses, who refused
names but not pictures, dived
from a rowboat into the swelter of
the very water from which the
sample was taken.
Aurora's treatment of its water
supply makes the river water as
taken into the pumps unSatlS-
factory for drinking purposes when
the B. coli count reaches 5000
per 100 cubic centimeters.
The Times test showed 10000
B. coli.
II
A URORA has kicked until it is
IA blue in the face at the pol
luton by the distilleries. 1t has
appealed to the state board of
health and inspectors from the
sanitation department are check
ing Tanners creek.
Although it has odors coupled
with mosquitoes from the creek to
bother it, Lawrenceburg is not
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ecutive and stevedore. Here are
the questions and their answers:
Has the New Deal improved
your economic condition?
Shipping Man-No.
Observation-Disclosures.
Should Roosevelt swing more
to the Right or the Left?
Shipping Man-Right.
Stevedore-Left.
Do you favor continuation Of
the NRA?
Shipping Man-Yes, with modi-
fications.
Stevedore-Yes.
What do you think of the
Brain Trust?
Shipping Man-Government is
ESSENTIALLY a practical thing. Theo-
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rists have no place in direct adj
ministration.
Stevedore-No brains.
Do you still have confidence in
the Presidents capacity to bring
the country out of the depres-
sion?
Shipping Man-No one man
can bring any country out of a
depression. I still have conf
dence in the Presidents capacity
for leadership.
Stevedore-YeS.
If Roosevelt was up for re-
election this year, would you vote
to continue him in office?
Shipping Man-Yes.
SteVedOre-YeS.
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Hold Kitchen Contest

CIR THOMAS then told the story about Pat and
~ Mike again.
1t does not make any difference which boat wins
the Americas cup race Nobody ever sees the cup
anyway and it is impossible, even for an expert
to tell which boat has until the astronomers ar
rive at the mathematical result in their laboratory
some days later.
But a contest between the English and American
schools of cookery would prove something. The
Americans think the English victuals are the worst
but the English are just certain that American
food out-awfuls theirs. The championship seems TO
lie between them with no other nation even close
Copyright, 1884 by Unite d Feature Syndicate. 1ncJ
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MACHINE GUN TIP
SENDS COPS OUT ON
DASH FOR OWN MEN

A man rushed into police head
quarters yesterday.
Il just saw a well-dressed man
carrying machine gun down at
Virginia avenue and South street, "
he stammered breathlessly.
-Four squad cars, overlooking
with grim blue coats, sped silent
~ to the spot. Out they piled, riot
guns cooked.
In a moment they climbed
sheepishly back in the cars, re-
turned to the station.
Questioning revealed that the
suspects were three members of
the homicide squad, detectives
Donald Tooley, John Gish, and
Earnest Whitsett. They had been
having an automatic rife repaired
at nearby gunsmith's.
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LIBRARY OFFERS BOOK
BY FRANCES PERKINS

Business Branch Receives Work
of Labor Secretary.
Frances Perkins, secretary OF
labor, presents the laborer in his
human aspect rather than in his
power to produce in her new book,
People at Work" received today
at the business branch library.
Other new books on the shelves
at the library are Personal Trust
Administration" by Cuthbert; AN
Approach to Fire Insurance" by
Hale. and 100 Years of Land VAL
ues in Chicago-The Relationship
of the Growth of Chicago to the
Rise of Land Values, 1830-1930," by
Hoyt.
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fair Enough
by
WESTBROOK PE0[ER

NEW YORK, July 18-The proletariat has struck
1 y another blow in England where the foremost
hands or paid crew, OF the British challenger En-
deavor have walked of the boat which is coming
the United States to race for the Americas cup in
September. The lower classes demanded more wages
than Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith, the proprietor was will
ing to pay and withdrew taking the cook with them.
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THE WORST CRIME-POLLUTION

BY ARCH STEINEL

THE sparkling glass may helped
il fish
bead those hreefnges Of Bourbon have helped
n before
samplng helped
tail hunt fresher water.
all depends whether repeal from the
whether rickey
polutng
the Ohio the extent that the town of Aurora
abhorrent
could would lead in How
Dearborn
between oil Lawrenceburg Ind
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The fact that they took the
cook with them seems to be the
only note of cheer in a rather
distressing situation. for it is
widely acknowledged that the
only cook worse than no cook
at all is an English cook. The
rebellious yacht sailors might
have served their cause more
effectively if they had voted to
leave the cook en- board to at
tack the remaining hardy mar
liners with the deadly bloater,
the deleterious bubble and
squeak, and the characterize
stroying blanc mango.
However, there still is hope
for the sailors that their tao
teal error in withdrawing the
cook will be redeemed for them
the part of the society yachtsn
shin
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Todays Science
by DAVID DIETZ

THE unusual distribution and movements of the
Il high and low air pressure areas which caused
the drought of the early spring and summer gave
official Weathe~ fOreCaSterS more than the usual
amount OF trouble in predicting the weather. Since
July weather Is beginning show signs of a return
10 normalcv. perhaps the amateur meteOrologiSt can
again Join in the game of guessing the weather.
Last summer I gave. in this column. some rules
on how 10 predict the weather from the daily
weather map Recently I have received requests
from several readers for the same information and
on the SuppoSitiOn that It may interest readers
I am repeating the information today.
good guess as to what the temperature will be
like can be made by noting the ATTITUDES of the
highs and lows" on the daily weather map.
4 HIGH pressure area, as the name indicates is
~ one in which the air pressure Is high. A low
pressure area Is one in which the pressure is low
As one might expect air naturally flows from
high pressure area into a low pressure one
But because Of the tendency of winds to turn to
the right in the northern hemisphere, tendency
which results the rotation OF the earth on its
axis the winds as they flow into the low pressure
area take on a whirlng motion.
The low pressure area therefore, becomes the
center Of whirlng system OF winds In the north
ern hemisphere. the direction of the whrl is al
WAYS counter-cockwiSe. that IS opposite to the di-
rection in which the hands Of the clock move Such
a whirl is known technically as cyclone.
IN the United States. the cyclones or to put it
another way the low pressure areas, usually drift
slowly eastward across the country.
GONE time ago +. II. Bowie, national forecaSter
y Of the United States Weather Bureau. formu-
lated series OF rules IN bureau publication titled
Weather ForecaStng IN the United States" These
may be summarized as follows
A high pressure area over the southeast and a
cold wave in the northwest usually indicate storm
development in the southwest and general precipita
ton.
storms which develop in the southwest and move
normally are quickly followed by clearing weather.
but storm forced 10 the left Of a normal track will
be followed BY the development of a second storm.
Troughs OF lOw-preSSure coming from the west
may be narrow wide. Narrow troughs move SLOW
w. storms developing at extreme northern and south
ern ends Wide troughS may develop extensive storm
areas.
When northern end OF a trough moves eastward
faster than the southern end weather conditions
IN the southwest and south remain unsettled, but
when the southern end OF the trough moves faster,
settled weather follows.
Storms that start in the southeast do not gather
much intensity until they begin TO toward the
northeast.
Marked changes in temperature of southeast and
northwest quadrants Of a storm imply increase in
intensity.
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No man knew this better than
Johnson.
The question then arose, how
would this best be done-by a
single ruler, or a commission.
Proud. Johnson kept trying to
ride herd on a job that no longer
was possible for one man to ham
die and which was knocking him
groggy with fatigue and eXhaus-
ton.
So. while friends began to fear
for his health, he hung on long
enough to work out a plan for
commission control The Presi-
dent wanted 10 initiate the reor-
ganization before he sailed.
johnson demurred. He hadn't
completed his set-up.
The President did not insist.
Genuinely fond of the eX-cavalry-
man he agreed to wait. But he
ordered johnson to rest, and
showed that he meant it. Like
wise, he suggested" that Johnson
curtail his stumping tour.
The same advice was given the
general by his former boss, Bernie
Baruch, and by Professor Ray
Moley. Baruch told Johnson
bluntly he was talking too much
and too violently. That is why he
is making only three or four
speeches. instead of the twelve or
fifteen he had planned.
THERE is more than one way
i to skin a cat; also more than
one way 10 get procrastinating
politicians 70 attend campaign
conferences.
Chesterfieldian James Hamilton
Lewis was made chairman OF the
Democratic national senatorial
campaign committee. He had
trouble getting his group together
to plan the fall battle in Sena-
torial elections.
In my vanity" explained the
senator. Il took this position,
knowing full we'll it would be diff
cult TO handle. 1t is always hard
TO get public men together in the
summer. So I called the meeting
for Chicago"
Why Chicago?" he was asked.
"Chicagos terrifcally hot in the
summer, isn't it?"
All" quoth the senator with a
twinkle Of the eye. Chicago may
be hot. 1t may be crowded. But
Sally Rand is doing a bubble
dance. Haven't you heard? I
rather thought If anything could
draw them anywhere, that would"
DELOW is a continuation Of
- the croSs-Section poll on the
New Deal. taken by selecting av-
erage citizens in typical cities of
the United States. Today's poll
was conducted in San Francisco.
Interviewed we're a shipping ex-
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Cooking Is Serious Art

THE society yachtsmen recruiting replace
ments from the ranks of the amateurs and this
appears to that they will carry an amateur cook
in place of The professional. No English
cookery can hope to produce results as terrific as
those which are achieved by pro, because English
cookery is haphazard business. 1t is serious art
in which the deadliest effects to be attained only
by professionals who have dedicated themselves to
their careers.
However the fundamentals of English cookery
are such that even amateur, with his heart in
his work hardly can avoid some grewsome effects in
the way of boiled putty.
In these circumstances, the only sporting thing
for the American yachtSmen to do would be to ship
cook from of the New England clam parlors
which line the Atlantic coast from Stamford, Conn.,
to the top of the state of Maine For every black
pudding which the English yachtsmen are compelled
to eat under the auspices of their amateur English
cook, the Americans, sporting proposition should
undertake to consume and survive order of
steamed clans.
For every devilled kidney eaten by an English
man, the American Sailors in fairness to their rivals
should be willing TO place themselves outside of a
typical American minute steak with OBrien pota-
toes, prepared by typical American golf club Chef
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For Instance. Take This

TOR instance, take the case Of Maughams novel,
4 of Human Bondage" I have not seen the
picture but several friends tell me that 1t IS con-
spicuosIy good and that Leslie Howard gives one OF
the most moving performances ever seen upon the
screen I find Richard Dana Skinner, motion pic
tlIre critic of The Commonweal' speaking Of it as
an interesting picture although he adds 1t is not
entirely pleasant story" Yet, at least one list
which I have seen of Human Bondage" is rated as
offensive and not to be patrOnized.
There is a real danger that some people may
become confused as to distinguishing between "in-
decent" and unpleasant" Certainly the creative
artist in every field is going to be handicapped if he
is forced portray only pleasant things That would
not be good for art. I do not think it would be
good for citizenship.
"Of Human Bondage" in its original form con-
tains certain passages which might shock certain
people and 10 Is of the most eloquent of moral
iStiC tracts which I know. Vaughan wrote the
tragedy Of a man who could not escape from the
physical thrall Of an unworthy attachment The
novelist Scourges the world the flesh and the devil
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corning the securing OF Jne
screen on the ground that my
views are extreme beyond all
TeasOna blenesS.
He reminds me that on sew
eral occasions I have confessed
myself as being in favor OF
ribaldry on the stage 1 will
admit as much. but would like
a little space in which 10 clar-
ify my position. A certain ro-
busuousness of language and Of
situation always has seemed TO
me far more healthy than sly
lnnuendo. Very often 1t IS the
gilt and tinsel which offends
me rather than the gingerbread
itself. If I NAV speak IN SYM
bols I would contend that the
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Why Race, AnytUdy?

IF it comes to that perhaps it would be just as well
Il to abandon the sail boat altogether and get
down to real sporting contest between the two
crews to be staged in some typical American road
side restaurant The sail boat race does not amount
to much, anyway.
In 1920 they abandoned one race of the series off
Sandy Hook because there was not enough wind to
move the boats. Then they abandoned another be-
cause the waves rocked the boats And third be-
came walkover for the American Defender because
a length of clothes line the Shamrock " snapped
allowing her sail to fall down.
In this embarrassing moment the English skipper
searched his ship frantically for a safety pin to
hitch up the ShamrockS SAIL which lay in folds like
a dropped petticoat, and Sir Thomas Upton the
owner, great raconteur saved the situation by tell
ing the story of Pat and Mike for the ffteth time
that week.
Have ever told you the one about Pat and
Mike?" Sir Thomas inquired with that determined
CLEAN in his eye which always gave warning that he
was about to tell it again.
Yes said one of the newspaper correspondents
aboard the Victoria
"A gentleman never hears story twice" put in
Sir John Ferguson the London banker always the
gentleman
"A gentleman never tells story twice." said the
newspaper correspondent, thus winning from Sir
John by a score of one up.
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ONE fisherman, Henry Herrler,
~ told how he put a box of
fish in the river near the mouth
of Tanners creek and how the
fish died from the effects Of the
polluted waters of the distillery
wastes
A few hardshells, however, point
that Lawrenceburg and Aurora
have had distilleries or been close
to them since their sWaddling
clothes days and should be used
to the pollution by this time as
long as the distilleries are hiring
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drea0 Pearson and Robert S. Allen

XXTASHINGTON, July Hugh Samuel Johnson sens
w budoAng abdcatng in his
chief significance of tranpnlng
hind the the last several weeks
johnson began privately discussing with stan
reorganization of administrative
Codfcation rapidly 1t only
work of the NFA would become
almost entirely administrative instead of creative.
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HJeemC bM
%
BROUN

NEW YORK. July ls-~You can not expect said
' Cardinal Newman. "a sinless literature Of
sinful people" would ike to of that quotation
rs 4 were profoundly familiar with the writings
Of the famous cleric, but honesty compels to
admit that u was cuIed out Of communication from
the National Council OF Catholic Men. Mr.. Edward
j. Hebron. director Of the Catholic Evidence Bureau,
praises me a little ironically I'm afraid for frank
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men and women who have been
out of work and paying them a
competence that gives bread to
their families.
And if the argument should
wax too warm one can always
find a peacemaker, somewhere,
who offers to split a pint just to
show that something with real
bead on it will Danish the bac-
terra thoughts and kill the blues
if it won't knock a B. coli in the
head.
Next-Our No Mean City.
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
By Waller Lippmann

the leaders of the general strike took steps to make
~ workers the municipal
system to work
the blockade of food supplies At the time Mr.
publicly the committee would assist
vital that did question the
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DELOW is a continuation Of
- the cross-Section poll on the
New Deal. taken by selecting av-
ersge citizens in typical cities of
the United States. Today's poll
was conducted in San Francisco.
Interviewed we're a shipping ex-
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ill be redeemed for them by a counter-error on
TT of the society yachtSman who will sail the
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lCopyrirht. 1884. bv The Timesl
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

June draws with its announcements of
N college and high school commandments, one is
reminded of a certain sort of address for such oc=
casions which sought to answer the questions of
Where are we?" and whittier are drifting?"
The astronomer does not have to wait until COM
mencement time to ask those questions. They are
bothering him all the time Let have look to-
day at what answers he is prepared to give to those
questions.
First of all he tells us that our earth is one of
mine planets revolving around the sun. He used to
Vtel that it was one of eight until he discovered
1the planet Pluto And he reserves the right to
change his mind again. He thinks that some day he
might find one more planets more distant from
\ the sun -Aa Pluto.
T~HE astronomer has lately been changing his
l. mind about other details of this stellar home
of ours. While he has put more stars and star-stuf
into it, he has cut down its size. He is now con-
WINGED that it is only about half large in diameter
than he formerly thought.
The diameter of our galaxy is about 100000 light
years, possibly 100000. light year, it will be
called is the distance light travels in one year 1t
is equal to six trillion miles.
The shape of the galaxy is by no means settled
matter 1t seems probable that the great majority
of the stars scattered in disk having diameter
of 100000 light years and thickness of about 10000
light years Lately, however, the work at the Har-
ward observatory would indicate that there enough
scattered above and below this disk to give the
galaxy whole fairly spherical shape.
Our is located within cloud of stars
which astronomers call the local cloud Within this
cloud, stars grouped into aggregations technical
ly called clusters which are distinguished by pos
sessing common motion. Our sun is in the midst
of such a cluster, but it is not member of the
cluster The cluster which contains Sirius the dog
star, and five of the seven stars in the Big Dipper
we'll more than hundred Others is known
as the Ursa Major cluster.
THE Local Cloud within which our sun and its at
Il tendant planets situated, is not near the
center of the galaxy. 1t is about midway between
the center and one edge
Our galaxy is itself a member at larger system
This super galaxy, as the astronomer calls it, has
five members They are, our own galaxy, the Large
Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud the Andromeda
Nebula, and the spiral nebula known as M33.
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Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBElN-

NTHEN your head starts dropping about 3 in
w the afternoon, when you begin complaining
of the heat and when yoor work loses much of its
usual interest you are about ready for your vacation
You may think you doing better to stay
home and work Scientific studies show, however,
that vacation is asset from the financial point
of view, because you do more productive work
afterward than you did before
Vacation cost of average family in the
United States, with an income of from s240O to
$4,000 year, varies from S5.75 spent by worker
who stays at home and goes to the ball game every
afternoon, to $3.50 a year, spent by families which
take motor trips.
CONfETINfES the cheapest vacation is the best,
~ and the most expensive vacation may be total
loss from the point of view of producing rest and
health.
An old-tme doctor was asked by a young as
sistant how to his Office successfully. The doc
tor gave him two suggestions for routine treatment
First" he said TASK your patients what they eat
and order something else; second, find out where
they are going their vacations and send them
some place else"
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tary order, Germany now pos
sesses an army which needs only
arms to make ii the equal of any
in Europe. And the arms are on
the way.
Within six weeks of mobiliza-
ton, 1 am reliably informed, Ger
many could put 1,250,0O0 efficient
troops in the field. And 4,000,0 900
modern rifles are ready for distri-
button inside German frontiers or
in safe hands not far outside.
Similarly, thousands of machine
guns, heavy and light, are said to
exist in a knocked-down state,
better to conceal them.
Germany" an old-timer told
me, lis tenser than I have known
her to be in years. She seems in
fever of apprehension lest some
thing happen before she gets
ready. She seems to be working
against sort of deadline."
repeated this remark, later on,
to a German.
That" he replied, sis exactly
the situation. Germany fears for
what may happen within and for
what may happen without She
is trying to set her house in or
der while yet there is time"
Next-HitIer perched precari-
0usly on powder key.