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essential installations must be
completed--cold storage plant put
in operation, radio set up, service
building erected
A wARDROOM council pre-
4 n pared assignment sheets and
worked out operations schedules.
while other experts conducted
classes designed to fit members of
the permanent Midway staff for
their life as machine age colonists.
a life in which familiarity with
the innards of Diesel engine
was even more important than the
traditional and primitive ac
Adjustments of the pioneer.
Shortly after dawn of April y
the North Ravens radio picked
up message of welcome from
the cable company's colony: D
men. including u Chinese and
Japanese servants, whose station
had been isolated for 30 years.
At 7 a. M she sighted Midway
through a, driving transform ana
soon thereafter dropped her hook
Off the southeast reef.
From the rail. those who had
glasses could see the reef about
half a mile ahead, its location
marked by smother of surf. The
reef formed rough circle of ap-
proximately five miles diameter;
within this circle was the lagoon
and, on its southern side two
islands.
n
THE larger Of these two islands.
Il site Of the cable station and
prospective site of Pam Americans
air base. is called Sand ISla nd.
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BY ROBERT S. BROWN

n ~
w Work-relief under the
Works Progress Administration
will be substantially ended by
April unless Harry Hopkins
present jackpot for public employ
ment is replenished.
WPA has only S1140.00O 900
available and is paying an aver
age monthly wage of SOS, exclu-
SlVe of the costs of administra-
ton and materials. Consequent
lv, WPA officials admitted TO-DAY.
they are virtually operating on
hand-to-mouth basis even before
the unemployment program has
got up full steam.
1t will take at least another bill
lion dollars to carry WPA through
next July l. the date originally set
tor completion Of all WPA prof.
ectS. To continue the work pro-
gram for the entire year would
ado another billion and one half.
Thus, if PWA is TO carry on. the
President is faced with two alter
natives-either he must call on
Congress for additional work-reliet
funds, or he must rescind allot-
ments made TO other agencies our
of the s4.SS0 100000 work fund and
transfer the money to WPA.
ENEN if ne takes the latter step
IL he still must go to Congress
Tor funds TO carry on relief in
some form after July /.
For the current month WPA
expenses will approximate 1885,
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Can't See the Adrantooe

or course, they nothing enviable in their
" status. no more than the poor man ever con-
SiderS the rich man has his worries Yet down at
Gibraltar. Speck of London the Spanish main
land, the British compelled to pay the constant
expense of maintaining an enormous fort and naval
base for the maintenance of their enormous feet
which maintains their enormous empire.
Every Spaniard is that Gibraltar is Spain
and that it lost only because the British logged
the night Waterman and took it. Yet TO keep the
rock today Spain would have to supper, modern
fleet and garrison and put in her time saluting and
polishing buttons. For what?
Is an unemployed English miner any happier in
poverty than an unemployed Spanish miner? Or Is
an English ariSocrat, with his honorS and orders
strung out after his name like the tail Of kite and
with taxes biting off much per cent of his
income, any better off than upper class Spaniard
who lives on the fat of his native land and
acknowledges no social equal on earth?
The Spanlards are not up to it any more Their
soldiers are understood. casual and neighborv and
their warships need not only paint but scrubbng
They are going to spend several millions on new
military planes in the next year, but mainly to de-
Velop civil transportation by air.
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Better Times?

Scrjpps- n oicdrd Newspaper 4 HiaHce
WASHINGTON, Nov. %
Young Americans. particularly
those from farm families. are
going to college in larger num-
bers.
Presidents an d professors
from the So land grant colleges
and universities jubilantly an
nounced increased enrollments
at their annual conference
here.
At the same time. DR.. Walter
j. Greenleaf of the u. S. Office
of Education. released statistics
showing that the upward trend
began during the school year
1934-35. But the majority OF
the schools reported remarka-
BILE increases in the 1855 en-
rollments over those of last
yerr
Purdue University agricul-
tural and engineering school at
Lafayette. IND, announced the
largest freshman class IN his
tory" with 1900 enrolled. Dean
J. H. Skinner Of Purdue re-
ported 262 freshmen in the
agriculture college. Nearest ap-
proach to that number in the
past was pa in 1914. Last year
the number was $50.
Although the Purdue increase
was outstanding, nearly all
schools reported gain in
freshmen.
Dean Skinner attributed II
largely 10 better times on the
farm
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gone out for direct relief. Most
recent figures show there are
$4,000 unemploys BILE relief cases
in the cities alone, one-fourth Of
whom are unable to work because
of age. more than 80 per cent be-
cause of physical handicaps and is
per cent because they are mothers
with dependent children.
THERE are more unemplova bles
than was estimated at the be-
ginning of the unemployment
program. Relief officials are wor-
ried about what may happen if
the President adheres to his state
ment that the Federal government
is going to quit this business of
relief"
In looking for allotments to 9TH.
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIFTZ

THERE is complex relationship between the cir
Il culation of waters of the ocean which has an i'm
portant bearing upon both the weather and the
ocean. This fact is pointed out by DR.. Thomas Way
land Vaughan. director OF The Scrpps Institute of
Oceanography La Jolla. Cal.
Many problems OF weather fOrecaSting of oceanic
phenomena and of the distribution of life in the
ocean. depend upon understanding of this rela-
tionShip.
Two basic factors contribute 10 the ClrCua ton OF
4 both til. atmosphere and the waters
Ihey are the suns heat and the earths rotation In
ADDITION. the air and the ocean affect each other
because Of the dragging effects of air currents upon
the oceans surface and because of the phenomena
OF evaporation and precipitation.
II the earth were stationary and the re-
vowed around 1t, there would be heating of the at
moSphere and the waters of the in tropical
ana suo-roplcal regions and expansion of both air
and water DR.. Vaughan says. Both air and
water. where heated, would upward and
now toward the poles III the region of which both
would be cooled. and there they would sink and
turn 70 the tropical and Subtropcal regions lower
cool currents The scheme. however. is by means
50 simple for the earth r6taes its axis and this
causes detection of the movements of~both air
ano water.
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Small Consolation in Words

ITNHERE are those who feel that among folk
Il whose needs are present and desperate halt can
ne called by saying merely We would like to help
YOU TO food and shelter but unfortunately there is
nothing do under the Constitution. You're
al good Americans, aren't YOU Certainly you would
prefer 10 starYe rather than have any kind Of liberal
inter probation of a sacred document the unspeak
able outrage Of amendment?
] rather believe that in circumstances like this
rousinp Mo- is hkey to come flying back from very
many million throats When people close to the
hunger line doubt that they likely be con-
SoeG by he reading Of what Nh Justice Butler said
in a certain Mr.. Justice Sutherland in an
other. They may become little impatient with
the ne2ation Of Mr.. Chief Justice Hughes himself
In attacking the attempt which the Guffey meas
living standard William d Whitney took the attitude
that the various economic problems which distress
all be reduced to legal distractions. Portals
plea for a quality Of mercy in the administration of
legal technicateS obviously would fall upon deaf
ears in the of Mr. Whitney.
From the standpoint Of the preciSionSt it does
not matter whether persons concerned by act eat
garbage or eat nothing at all The whole question is
What did the language Of Hamilton mean when it
was incorporated in such article and such a sec
ton, and how did Marshall interpret it? The dead
hand OF precedent is expected TO carry all the weight
of traffic poicemans signal. STOP says the bony
fist of an ancient conception Arc tha instant
the duSt-stamed ranks are expect t only to
stand still but to kneel and worship authority
which directs them TO return to their N,nncls
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with nature and the Sea. were boys
in the trenches.
And they were fine. hard-hit-
ten lot: every one chosen for ahil
ity in two or three trades, for
physical fitness: every one pos
seSsed of that spirit which pre-
ferS a distant horizon to the build
ings across the way.
Some of them. afterward wrote
w S Grooch, Pan Americans ad-
miniStrative officer aboard the
North Haven. had quit good jobs
to Join our expedition and explore
the far islands of the Pacific" and
he adds, with the pride Of a gen.
eral in his troops after victorious
engagement, smile, if you
like. but I'll gamble you couldn't
hire most of those men. for twice
what We paid them, to duplicate
the job at home that they put
through for us in the Pacific"
THE North Haven lay in San
l. Francisco Bay until the
morning of the 9th, when engi-
neers elaborated her radio COM
pass.
AS she weighed anchor and
stood out through the Golden
Gate red airplane swooped down
above her decks, stunted and stag
gered farewell against the fore
noon sky.
1t was Mike Doolin. manager of
the San Francisco airport, making
an appropriate gesture The
freiehter was no sooner we'll away
than Neptune gave the landlub-
bers of the construction crew a
taste of what was ahead of them.
A northwest breeze famed a
rough beam sea. the North Haven
shifted course to ease the roll.
extra lashings were put on the
deck cargo.
The heavily laden vessel was all
Of eight days in making Honolulu
"a trip which the Clipper accom-
pllshes in II hours. and during
that time the construction and
alrwayS crew was shaken down.
mentally as we'll as physically.
CONSTRUCTION men were
~ taught such seagoing tricks
as splicing rope. making cargo
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Who Wants Spain. AnYiudg?

WHO would bomb Spain and what would the
W great powers do to any nation which under
LOOK to do so? It's the French and British who are
worried about the defense of their capitals railroads
haroors and factories against bombardment from the
ar Both are afraid Of the Germans and to
smaller degree, of each other. but Spain does not
figure IN their fears of plans of offensive or defensive
Down in Gibraltar the British on their stolen
rock have been holding air raid gas defense drills
on the of chance that the Italians might bomb
them or send their navy into thu Mediterranean to
oelehd that great aggregation of headaches the
empire But in Agecras, just 25 cents away by ferry
the Spanlards are under such necessity
Abraham Lincoln MuSsolini's mission to free the
slaves OF Abyssinia did not threat SPANS empire
because she hasn't any empire. and though most Of
her fleet is always in the Mediterranean Mussolini
hardly knows its there
or course Spain is special case governed by
special conditions. important among them being the
jealousy OF richer nations. Military and economic
weakness hardly be taken the secret of seclr-
lty Tor all nations But here is country which can
go 10 sleep at night without locking the doors not
because her nelghbors honest but because thew
are 100 dishonest ever TO agree fair division of
,ooC II they should tap the night Waterman over the
mead and take the country as the British took
Gibraltar.
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Literary Notes

The wall OF secrecy which has surrounded the
new James NJ. Barrie play has crumbled TO the ex-
tent that Smith & Haas who will publish it here in
book form, report that Elisabeth Bergners role
In 1T will be that OF the young David in the Bible
story
Samuel Hopkins Adams whose story 1T Hap
pened One Night" was made into movie which
all the prizes for 1884 has written another
II will be published serial in the Cosmopolitan
and IN book form by Liverght next January Tbs
title is Perfect Specimen. and Of course 1t will De
produced as motion picture.
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Federal WokRe|ef Sure to Be Substantially Ended by April
Unless Hopkins Jackpot for Public Employment Rep!enshed

100000 with only slightly more
than half of its quota of 2.a500O0
persons employed during the first
half of the month. BY the end
of this week the total at work
is expected to reach 100000.
The contemplated shortage in
WPA funds in no way touches the
problem Of unemloyables, which
goes back to the states next Sun
day. 1t does not take into con-
sideration that the Federal gov
eminent, in order to adhere to its
policy that no one shall go hun
gry may be forced to continue
direct relief where states either
can't Or won't supply money for
the crippled. aged or otherwise
physically unfit for work.
Already from the four billion
relief fund more than a billion has
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Times Books

| "ssWdust Caesar" George Sedes makes FORTH
right effort to whittle signor Mussolini down -
ns proper size (Harpers: 3d. His book is probabl,,
the most savage, wellsustaned attack that mas VET
been made on the Italian dictator
Mr.. Seldes blntly pictures Mussolin az seu
out artist. four-fiusher. physical coward and
general. all-around faker
He switched from pacifsm militarism early m
the war, says Mr. Seldes because the French bought
him out After the he pedded his Fascist out
fit to the highest bidder
When the wave Of Boshevik strikes swept Italv
MusSoIni was backing the strikers and actually Of
Tered the Fascist to the strike leaders When thew
turned him down he sold his services to the by
manufacturers. bankers and landowners
A LII danger of Communism in italy was gone
continues Seldes. when the Fascists dnallv
swung into action. What Mussolin was doing AZ
the behes of his employers destroying the Il Dor
unions.
The march Rome" was put-up ion sta ped
With the conni' ance Of army and government: Mus
soln did not lead it. but waited i'll Milan until the
king offered him the premier's Job Then ne vent
TO Rome By Pullman
Since then, says Mr.. Sedes Mussolni has not
brought Italy economic recovery; on the contrary
wages have steadily fallen ever since the Fascists
took ot1ce industry has declined the budget has
gone farther and farther out of balance
Mussoilnl. in snort. has done none of the thing,
ne Is famous for having done his one achievement
sno MS one aim according to Mr.. Seldes has been
TO get power and fame for Sgnor Mussolini
should ado that this book is abundantlv docli-
menteo BY Bruce Cation
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Her weakness is her strength, for the rest OF
the world leaves Spain alone, whereas Britain with
her great and scattered empire is always squeezing
out of one crisis into another because the world
hardly take deep breath without threatening some
British interest somewhere.
Certainly the Spaniards had all the experiences
which come with opulence and peoples poverty
and defeat in The course OF the full life of nation.
They have conquered and been conquered. and now
IN what 10 he he twilight Of colorful career
they SQUAT in their peninsula mature AND mellow.
watching the of the world whip itself into bloody
fury and another great war
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err governmental branches which
might be rescinded to amplify
WPA's funds. the President has
several possibilities. Army en-
gineers have been given $133,000-
900, only part of which has been
obligated The $500 900. 900 quota
for CCC will show a balance when
present enrollments are reduced
to 100000 Several millions might
be cut from ALLEGATIONS to the La
Dor Department. the Army Quar-
termaster Corps, the NAVY, the
Reclamation Bureau and the Re-
settlement Administration,
n
TT is improbable, however, that
these various departmental ap-
preparations could be reduced
sufficiently. within the confines of
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the work relief act, to supply more
than half billion dollars.
Administration officials hope
that within the next 30 days a
great popular support will be built
up for WPA and its work projects.
If enough money can be placed in
circulation, new Dealers feel suffi-
cient pressure will be exerted on
Congress, which meets Jan. 3. to
push through additional appropri-
ations.
1t is unlikely that the President
personally will make the demand
for increases. If the missionary
tours of Mr.. Hopkins bear fruit,
the pressure will come from the
country.
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his suit for the defensive sig
nal. He discards the Jack Of
spades. telling his partner that,
when West gains the lead, with
the jack of hearts, he will lead a
diamond. South will win with
the ace. Then, when West gets
into the lead with the queen Of
hearts, he will lead another dia-
mond This can be won in
dummy with the king. but now de-
clarer must lose a diamond, and a
club
If club were led BY West -
any time. declarer would make
his contract
tcopyrisnt, 1885. NEA Service. Inc.D
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auEnough
BY
W'ESTBR00K PFGLFR

MADRID, Nov 26-PreoCcupied With political and
1fl economic troubles of her the Spanish
republic enjoys strange immunity 70 the worries
and rulnors which beset the stronger nations Of
Europe. When Adolph Hitler rattles his sword which
he mentions in such awesome tones he is not rafting
terrible blade at Spain. When MuSSohni beats his
chest and pops his eyeballS TO inflame a hundred
thousand Italians at patriotic camp meeting he Is
threatening Britain possibly France, but not Spain
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Mauna Loa
u Science Scrric,

~ NfiFhfF NflFtrc
WASHINGTON Nov. Is
Mauna Loa. in eruption again,
Is one Of the busiest of the
world 5 volcanoes. but also one
of the least troublesome. so far
as destruction of life is con-
cerned.
In all recorded history. and
through all the traditions of
the Hawaiian natives, it has
never killed a man, though its
lava rivers have occasionally
burned out plantations that
stood in the way.
In general. however, like all
volcanoes that specialize in lava
rather than in cinder showers
and explosions. it is quiet and
vell-behaved mountain.
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A heart -shap ped island about
mile and a half long and mile
across at its widest end. the green
of its magnolia brush and the tufts
which were treetops seen from
mile offshore gave proof of human
occupancy-a proof supplemented
quickly by second radio message
from the cable station saying -aaU
its superintendent was coming out
in his launch to visit the ship.
About a mile and a half away
from Sand Island and due east o.
it lay East Island. barren. mile
wide triangle of coral and sand.
Presently. as those aboard the
North Haven watched, small
launch came toward the reef from
shore, making for what must DE .
passage through the solid line Of
surf.
~LOSE up to the reef, the
~ launch lay to for time, APP
parently awaiting favorable mo-
ment to run through. 1t was not
a sight calculated to encourage
those charged with the RESPONSE
bility for lightering some 1000 tons
of unwieldy cargo, including a
10000 pound tractor.
Tho loJ1tocIo ont under NAV aoain
headed into the surf. vanished so
completely from view that those
aboard the North Haven were con-
WINGED it had been swamped. Il
reappeared, however, wet with
spray, and made its way to the
freighter.
That southeast channel the
cable company people told Pan
Americans executives. was only 10
feet wide-their l5-ton launch
could never get through it, There
was another channel to the north
west a quarter of mile wide and
Is feet deep. But it was on the
weather side of the lagoon. and
dangerous, when the swells ran
high, for small craft
Dangerous or not. it was appar-
ent that the 20,000-pound tractor
and all the rest of the Midway
equipment were going to be
lightered through that passage.
Tomorrow-The building" of
Wake Island.
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4 Bill F0cetiOus

INDEED. Mr., William d. Whitney undertook to be
Il little facetouS about the miseries of those who
have lost their Jobs through the diSlocation of in
dustry He remarked with smile that he hadn't
doubt that the buggy manufacturing industry suf-
fered when the automobile came into vogue.
Seemingly it Was not his business TO suggest any
way out Inierentaliv his advice that the worker
should be patient ana resigned to that state of
10 which 1t pleased strict ConStructiOnist ConSti-
tuition TO call him.
But it seems to that those who would throw
out all arguments concerning the public welfare
hardly advancing a respect and affection for the
basic law of the land Much has been said about
a2ltaorS who would tear down the Constitution. but
II seems to me that the men and lawyers who do
most TO place the document in jeopardy are the ones
who insist that it must be a strait Jacket
No violent radical has done much to bring
vision nearer Williams d. Whitney, standing coolly
and utbanelY on his rights and saying in his own
smiling and good natured way Let them eat gar
bage That, take it, is also a constitutional right
Copyright 1885
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Thanks to the United States.
Spain has no necessity either to
defend a group of indefensible
islands in the far Pacific or to
haul down her flag and turn the
islands loose so as to avoid an
otherwise inevitable fight to keep
them That was attended 10 in
1898. There's one virtue = least
in being = poor snd struggling
republic isolated on q far end of
the European continent without
any colonies that anybody wants
and without sufficient military
and naval strength to start any
thing
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I0UnTT- X. ate thelT fOOd 0uf u
garbage cars what relation does
that nave 10 the right Of the gov
eminent to impose this unconsti-
tutional measure upon the in
duStry?"
Now it may be that technically
the brilliant young legal luminary
was correct, but l doubt that the
arguments ON welfare legislation
in the years to come are going TO
be conducted wholly on technl-
cal grounds. An employer or
group Of employers may be with
IN their constitutional rights in
.-rt-,,,c, OF ham ,.Lnn "a y
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when IN. steamship North Haven
sshed from san Francisco las, March
nm round-trir yovag. n Manila bv
"sv NJ Honolulu. Midway Wax. Island
ann Guam she carried in her hold. ard
on her deck, 90oN- mile trsn,-PsciA,
airline. Tn. articl. below. sixth NJ
series carries on the story NJ the pioneer-
ing which made possible the Pan-Aner,-
csn Airwsys service to the Orient
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II Seems oM
BY
Haywood BR0lN

L point which cane up little while ago in an
argument concerning the constltutionality of the
GufeY Coal Control Act In arguing against the
measure william p Whitney counsel for one of the
operators SAID
The government NAV parade what it chooses to
term ne degradation Of the miners, but what has
that ~ do with the constuionalitv Of the Ciufev
acto y lhe families Of mine Workers in Harlan