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It's Same in Different Wan

IN Spanish movie theater the other night travel
l. reel showed strange local tribe of people some
where off in the mountains who had grown from
seven to nine fingers on each hand
In other European countries such picture cer-
"a nly would have been suppressed tending to in
Jre the reputation of the state but the Spanards of
the Madrd audience seemed not at all chagrined,
but merely interested
The king and his court are gone, for while at
least and the republic has made some important de-
velopments, especially the building of roads which
were the passion of Primo Rivera as we'll as Huey
Long.
But it's not claimed that the wealth of Spain
has been redlStributed to a noticeable degree The
poor remain as poor as they under Alfonso but
the luxurious life of the arStocrats government en-
ployes and Of course, the inevitable grafters and
hXers has not been impaired.
Spain has gone republican but the more she
changes the more she remains the same
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His only Major Triumph

pUT If I speak with good deal of feeling about
- the plight in which Miss Florence Dunbar finds
herself it is because I went through somewhat
similar experience once myself and never have re-
covered, L was even younger than Miss Dunbar
when this tragic thing beell me- The senior class of
Horace Mann High School used to meet each year
little before graduation and vote the best this or
that L can't remember all the categores but We
had the handsomest," of course the best dresser"
and "the best all around"
When the totals of the votes announced I
was little disappointed to find that l had not
received single vote as the handsomeSt" The fact
that didn't receive any votes, either for "the best
dresser" made no difference l wasn't running for
that.
But then to my great surprise there came the
announcement OF 1.-The best all around" The figures
were read, and they Haywood Broun 1903 votes.
Carl FernStrom 1O2. Id won 1 stood head and
shoulders above everybody else in the class 1t went
straight to my head. 1t remained there. The size
OF my hat from that day forth has been rs.
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Times Books

HE story OF Sally Harwood little woman" of
-, H. whose dlsarmng personality and naivete
lifted her from a washerwoman's shantv IN a
S"ank hotel among New Yorks uppercrust will
amuSe those who are tired Of modern brands of
SophlSucatlon. The author is Leslie Curtiss a
HooSier.
How Sally kept the town of Hornetsville Ind.
IN an uproar and how her teacher EVELYN Miller
sensing the fine nature of the child removed her
10 another environment is absorbing tale
Under artificial living conditions and among
soclal-clmbing puppets, Sally's devastating frank
ness ana cearneSs OF vision creates another problem
The lovely school teacher. Evelyn Miller, serves
aS ilucn neeoed balance wheel for the irrepressi-
bic Sally and manages to smooth the understandings
OF people and her reactions TO the humor and
pathos OF small town jealousies afford amusement
10 any reader who has lived and survived the COM
pieHlues and existence in rural communities. pub
hshed by Daniel Ryerson, Chicago)
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Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

XXTHEN you lift hand, turn your head tighten
w your muscles oxygen is used up in your body
exactly as fuel is used in motor. Moreover, your
vital organs keep working even while you sleep.
Breathing the beat of the heart the circulation
of the blood, and the restless movements made
during sleep demand a certain amount of fuel.
A man at hard work burns up Also calories a
day. a moderate worker uses 3400 calories; a desk
worker requires 270O caories and ladies of leisure
who sleep late in the morning, play bridge or do
matinee in the afternoon, and do not dance too
long at night, will need only 2450 calorieS
That is why some women who do nothing but
MUNICH chocolates multiply their avoirdupois until
they get beyond being pleasantly plump
The one way to determine how much fuel a per-
son needs is to study that individual Two persons
of the same build, height weight age and occupa-
ton need the amount of fuel But there may
be variations in individuals similarly con-
Structed
DY use of a standard test, known as the basal
ID metabolism test your doctor can find out exact
ly how much food you ought to eat each day, pro-
vded you not going to do any special activities.
He calculate from list of your ordinary activi
ties how much extra fuel you will require to meet
the special demand.
The basal metabolic apparatus measures the
amount of oxygen burned by the body in carrying
on its chemistry while a person is at rest and is
not digeSting food. The amount of carbon dioXde
he breatheS out. after nhallng oxygen represents
the burning of the fuel that comes from his body.
In taking a basal metabolic test, the doctor puts
the patient at rest and allows him to lie quietly
from 40 minutes to an hour Then the patient
breathes through a tube which is connected to the
so that all the breathing goes through this tube.
Fresh oxygen is supplied from tank. AS this
oxygen is used up the measuring device records the
extent to which it is consumed.
Thus we have actual record of the use of
oxygen by the body. This is known as the basal
metaboism.
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1t will be there on election day
next November is doubtful. The
trend is running away from the
New Deal in this state.
THREE years ago Mr.. Roosevelt
Il carried Massachusetts, with
S00,148 votes to 736,959 for Mr..
Hoover. That's a slim margin at
best and is not likely to survive
when you consider New England
feels the New Deal has favored
the West and South at the ex-
pense Of the East.
If things were going we'll with
New England it might look differ
emily, but when things go badly
the citizens are inclined to look
around for the loose screw or the
fiat tire. So I was shown some
figures on imports.
Explain me this" said a south
ern Massachusetts Chamber of
Commerce official who preferred
not to be named He showed me
two sets of statistics. One showed
there was corn shortage in New
England where the grain is con-
sumed commercially by cereal
manufacturers liquor distillers
and others. In the last eight
months the port of Boston has
received $1,000 tons of South
American, Rumanian and Greek
corn.
DIDN'T they pay people some
IL where not to plant corn?"
this gentleman inquired. We'll,
then, how about this?"
His other data was on imports
and meats from Canada in the
first eight months of 1884, COM
pared with the same period of this
year. Here are some of the fig
ures:
1885 1884
Cattle (numbeD 79,486 $3.50
Calves ... 12.156 112
Pounds of beef..5 los, 500 $4,000
Pounds Of pork 2 ,637, Geo $1,000
Pounds of lard. 100000 2,700
With cotton textile mills closing,
big business generally hostile,
number of influential Massachu-
sets Democratic leaders lukewarm
Mr.. Roosevelt's slim 1892 lead is
not likely to be there next year.
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Making TOlCard Freedom

RuT my testimony is not based wholly on per-
~ sona experience. 1 know Who through
his talents, became a symbol of the highest poten-
tiaties of the Negro race"
How do you like it, Paul?" asked him once
He said he hated it. Sometimes" he explained
I'D like to take cocktail gamble or raise Cain
but there's always somebody around to look at me
Sternly and remark, Remember you're a symbol !"
In my own case I must admit that such bur-
den lies upon me now. Anybody who calls me a
symbol of anything had better smile when he says
1t. Very many years ago 1 was graduated out of
both sound mind and a sound body. And so my
heart bleeds for Miss Florence Dunbar, of Mount
Holyoke College.
BY dnt of desperate work she may raise her
blood pressure and lose her athletic figure but it
will take lot of character for her to win her way
through from 100 per cent health to the privilege
of doing whatever she pleaseS.
do not like to be still one more unlimited inter-
ferer with the private life of young lady who has
every reason to oe annoyed at the publicity which
has been thrust upon her, but in all humility
would like to help. If Miss Florence Dunbar wants
to learn how to get away from health habits hope
she will write to me.
Copyright 1851
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lessness, as though the great ship
hung suspended above the center
of that monotonous seascape.
The radio bearings coming in
every 80 minutes prove otherwise,
however, and their story of swift
flight is corroborated by the re-
suits of hourly fixes" determined
by celestial navigation.
THE clipper rusheS toward
Il battlement of great clouds,
into and through its walls of mist.
AS she energies into the sunshine
on the farther side the dropletS
of moisture on the huge wing
adorn its surface with a myriad
of tiny jewels.
Nine thousand feet up, the
great monoplane flashes home
along her radio beam. A speck
of darkness on the face of the sea
grows larger, becomes a miniature
contour-We are approaching the
atoll.
Eight hours out of Midway, and
we circle the lagoon. Wake Island
is a w" of matted brush trimmed
with white sand, Wilkes a thou
sand yards of beach and coral
rock and scrub; Peale, longer and
higher, flies the American flag
from staff before the airport
buildings.
TTERE, where a few months ago
Il l. was barren desolation, are
houses, Windmills, and the towers,
sixteen of them, As feet high, that
serve the radio compass station
which has guided us in flight.
Down, now, into the marked chan
mel. and up to the landing float.
We have flown 1912 miles over
open ocean at an average speed
of 155 miles an hour, and as
straight as bullet to hit
20-acre pinprick of coral rock
square on the nose. We have
been able to do this because of
radio technicianS and because
neither heaving seas nor pound
ing surf, neither blazing sun nor
driving tropic rain, neither treach-
erous reef nor the vagaries of So
foot timbers on The loose, could
diSmay the North Ravens band of
twentieth century pioneers.
Tomorrow: The building of an
aerial bridge.
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Today's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

TEETH tell the story of human evolution,
Il cording to Dr. Ernest A. Hooton professor of
anthropology at Harvard University Moreover. the
future of man, he tells us, lies in his teeth.
Our teeth have had illustrous past" he
says. They have Serviceable present, and with
due conservation they will continue to perform an
indispensable function in the future of man. But
If the human dentition breaks down. it will carry
with it in its fall the human species"
NEETH are the most nearly impershable relics of
u the vertebrate body
IF an animals teeth last until death, they will
continue to defy the destructive action of time and
the elements sometimes for millions of years." he
says. After death the soft parts of the animal
BODY decay rapidly. The bones are much tougher.
But bones are frequently crushed into dust dis
solved by the action of chemicals in the earth"
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Literary Notes

For those lovers of typography who lamented
the passing Of the Fleuron whose seven annual num-
oerS have long been out of print comes news from
LONDON OF the birth of successor to be called Sp
nature Edted by Oliver Simon the F1eurons first
eoltor Signature will have three issues year and
hence subles itself "a quadrimesral of typography
and the graphic arts" The first issue is due this
month and subscriptions at SITS a year NAV be
addressed to Al Museum-st. London.
The name of James Branch Cabel which has not
appeared as author since 1880, will appear again on
book that Robert NJ. Mcbride e. Co. is announcing
Tor publication in February, 1886. There have been
several novels by Branch Cabell but the new book
by James Branch Cabell will be commentary on
the literary history Of the last IS years It will be
called Preface to the Past"
A strange story Of the friendship of Rudyard
Klpling and French soldier whose life saved by
copy of Kim" is told for the first time in the
December issue of Bluebook Along with the story
are some of KiplingS letters to Maurice A. Harmon
neau, president of the association of Veterans
of the French Foreign Legion in New York who was
fighting in the trenches Verdun and at odd
moments learning English from kim bullet
which might have killed him struck the book in his
pocket. Hamonneau sent to Kipling the perforated
and blood-stained volume along with his own Croix
de GUerre-and thus began the correspondence and
friend~hip.
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DEFENSE DISCARD is QUICK SCORER

delphia. Becker's outstanding
achievement this year was to win
the National Masters Pair event.
This event is open only to play
ers who have won sufficient points
TO qualify them as masters; it is
the outstanding bridge event of
the year.
In this series of articles, Beck
er explains the development of
the new defensive discard signal.
Against the five diamond con-
tract, West opens the singleton
deuce of clubs. Dummy plays the
queen.
East appreciates that this lead
is a singleton, and if West gets
into the lead with a heart or
diamond, he would like to have
him know that he holds the ace
of spades. Therefore, East's play
on the queen should be the jack
Of clubs.
The play of this high card tells
partner that his entry is in the
higher Of the suits not bid by the
declarer and his partner. If the
three spot were played on the
first trick. this would convey the
message that East's entry card
was in hearts, the lower of the
outside suits.
Now, you can see how easily
contract can be defeated. The
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their longest overseas hop-from
San Francisco to Hawaii.
TODAY Pan Americans chain
Il of radio stations extending
from California to the Philippines
maintains hourly communication
schedules with the control sta
tions at Hawaii and California,
transmitting meteorological re-
ports and other data. Before the
first exploratory flights of the
clipper an extensive series Of bear
ing tests, in which Hawaiian sta
tions and ships at sea co-operated,
proved that the directional radio
was functioning properly.
Now radio bearings are received
every half hour by clipper ships
above the Pacific from both ends
of the route.
The radio towers are the pillars
of the bridge, and the directional
signals are it's paving; the high
way from Alameda to Pearl Har-
Dor, from Hawaii to Midway and
Wake and Guam and Manila is
broad but straight-better marked,
for all it traverses league upon
league of empty ocean, than the
Boston Post Road. For that mat
ter, it is far more likely that you
will get lost driving between the
city limits and New Rochelle than
the skipper of flying clipper will
lose his way, even momentarily,
between Midway and Wake Is
land.
THE clipper takes off from
Il Midway's quiet lagoon at
dawn, her crew looks down upon
an ocean of shimmering crimson.
Once beyond Kure Island, scarce
ly 40 miles from Midway, and
the eye which scans the circular
horizon sees nothing but water
neither land nor rocks nor ships.
So it will be for almost eight
hours, except when school of
porpoises or dolphins disarrange
briefly the ordered, glittering, in
terminable expanse.
Roaring along at 155 miles an
hour, the clipper is only an hour
out of Midway when she crosses
the International Date Line and
today becomes tomorrow. And yet,
despite her speed, the unending
emptiness gives to those aboard
her an odd sensation of notion
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licans still have to pull down a
New Deal majority in Massachu-
sets it is necessary to realize
Massachusetts, is more diversified
than Rhode Island. Hot business
resentment in general and the
feeling of cotton textile mill work.
ers that Roosevelt let them down
produced a Republican majority
last August in Rhode Island.
Massachusetts, cotton mill work.
ers are equally unhappy. Bay
State business men PROBABLY are
as reSentful. But some mill work.
ers-Woolen millmen, for instance
are doing pretty we'll in Massa-
chusetts. Tool makers, rayon mills,
screw makers, manufacturers OF
copper products are fairly busy in
southern Massachusetts. Even
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les make it possible to use this
equipment for days on end to
send position reports, secure
weather data, dispatch instruc-
tons to and from almost any spot
in the entire Pacific. When the
plane is aloft the range is even
greater. Far beyond Wake on an
exploratory flight to Guam the
radio operator of the clipper has
talked easily with Pan Americans
Miami station, half world away.
TINE greatest radio triumph,
Il however, lay in the extension
of aircraft radio direction find
ing devices to unprecedented
ranges.
The type of radio beacons which
guide airliners through fog and
night on the routes within the
United States serve we'll enough
on overland lines, but their short
range-a hundred miles or So
makes them obviously unfit for
transoceanic USE
Using its Caribbean routes as a
testing laboratory, Pan American
radio engineers developed a short
wave direction finder with an eff
fective range Of 1900 miles, free
from the defects which limit the
consistent range of the ordinary
loop" or radio-compass type di-
rection finder and make it unre-
liable at sunset, sunrise or during
the hours of darkness. BY overlap
ping their range two stations
equipped with this new direction
finder can cover an operating
range of $500 miles, equivalent to
the distance between New York
and London, and almost 1900
miles further than is necessary
in order to guard the ships on
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nation also are polling. I read
latest returns the other day in
Maine.
The Massachusetts score read:
Roosevelt, 1884; other Demo-
Gratis, 80; all Republicans, 1865;
third party, 81.
1t is as reasonable to believe
the 38 who prefer a Democrat
other than Mr. Roosevelt would
vote for him under any circum-
stances, as it is to assume some
of the 1865 votes cast for all
Republican candidates might go
to Roosevelt, a third party, or stay
at home on election day if their
particular choice were not nomi-
mated. The Post poll and this
country poll seem to give the
President a thin edge but that
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BY LYLE c. WILSON

Copyright. 1885. by United Press
BOSTON, Nov. 25.-You get the
~ idea travelling through New
England that a great many peo-
pie think the New Deal is cock
eyed.
These people tell you they are
confused by Washingtons starts,
stops, turns and twists. There is
resentment against so many the
cries" being applied by impractical
men to problems vitality affecting
New England's present and future.
AS of the present, I discount
some of the things I heard IN Mas
sachusettS, and will venture an
opinion that as of today President
Roosevelt probably has not lost
Massachusetts for 1886. But he
will before then.
That opinion is fortified by
newspaper straw votes. intenser
newspaper reading in this part of
the country and questions put to
many casual conversationalists as
I have travelled around eastern
and southern New England.
Mr.. Roosevelt's small 1882 ma
jority here is shrinking. In that
year he won Rhode Island and
Massachusetts,, the other New
England states going to Mr.. Hoo
yer.
T Asst August Rhode Islands
IL First Congressional District
abandoned New Deal reform and
recovery to elect a Republican If.
a significant by-election. Massa-
chuSetts is in the same frame of
mind
The New Deal lost Maine in
1882 and won it in the 1884 guber-
Material and congressional cleo
ton. Well, Maine is gone again.
Not Passamaquoddy Dam, high
potato prices or what have you
will suffice to make Maine vote
Democratic next year.
To conclude that the Repair
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EuZnough
BY
WFSIBR06K

MADRID, Nov 25.-The capital of Spain is
'A strangely serene considering that the republic
only four years old and that kinds of revolu-
ton broke out only year ago on opposite coasts Of
the country with opposite aims. In Barcelona the
Catalans who speak another language and consider
themselves a cut above the best of the Spaniards.
attempted to seCede capitalistroyallst uprising
They thought they paying too great portion
Of the taxes and that they were the victims OF the
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She looks like darn nice girl"
l said to myself They had no
right to do a thing like that to
her Why should they make an
example of a girl who seems to be
having a good time with her
studies and her athletics? Making
her a symbol Of the best potentiali-
ties of American Womanhood!
She ought to go over to the dean,
or whoever did it, and punch him
or her right in the nose. It's
enough not only to ruin the rest
Of the college career of the betty
young lady but affect her later
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the erection of the radio, ended
with the celebration of the direc-
ton finder station. For without
radio, without the highly special
lied type of radio devised by Pan
American for its Pacific project,
transoceanic flying would be the
gamble it had always been until
the lines clipper ships began a
service of exploratory flights each
of which was completed with the
routine efficiency of a railway
train.
A S with transoceanic planes,
L n bases and personnel trans
oceanic direction-finding radio was
non-eXistent back in 1881, when
Juan Trippe, Andre Priester and
Colonel Lindbergh first conceived
the Pacific route. It's development
was a most important phase of
the scientific pioneering which
had to be done before a single
machete slashed the brush on
Wake Island or human activities
disturbed the solemn Gooney-
birds of Midway.
Shore or ship radio capable of
spanning almost any distance had
been, of course, a commonplace
for some years. The problem lay
in the development of light
weight, low-powered, completely
reliable equipment of sufficient
range to cover the entire Pacific
when mounted in an airplane.
The development of radios for
straight communication was COM
paratively simple. Each of the
China clippers carries two send
ing sets, two receivers, a dual an
tenna system. Even when on the
water. with engines dead. batter
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yacht building yards have work, I
was told. When you have seen
the cotton textile business you
have seen the worst of it.
q
TINE Boston Post conducted
l. Massachusetts poll recently.
1t showed Mr., Roosevelt slightly
weaker than in 1882 and an even
greater decline in the popularity
of Gov. Curley, Democrat, who
was elected in 1884. But on the
basis of that poll, some impartial
observers believe both Roosevelt
and Curley would win today. The
President may be a little stronger
than Curley right now.
Country weeklies throughout the
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were sentenced to 80 years life enemies of their
country but these and group who remain to be
tried said to be enjoying all the comforts of
good club in their martydom.
They may buy their food, their quarters are
comfortable and the golden rule is to govern the
administration by the police in their case. The
Communists mostly miners may be said to enjoy the
privileges the Catalan arStocratS except
that being coal miners and Communists they have
no money with which to buy luxuries from outside.
That can hardly be called the fault of a struggling
republic however and all of them may expect to be
turned loose as the republic feels strong
enough to keep them under control