The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-03

forever changing.
Two days ago the waves looked
like playthings for children. Last
night the ocean changed it's mind
and rolled the waves up high with
a shrieking wind. The steward said,
1--WE shall have to fasten the arm
chairs tomorrow" but the heavy
ship paid no attention to the waves.
The ocean changed it's mind again
and calmed down.
A speedOmeter telling how fast
the ship moves is operated by
mechanism below the keel that
records the speed Of the rushing
water. Burning oil produces steam;
steam power is converted into elec-
trio power, and that drives the
ship. The captain always knows
how deep the ocean is beneath him;
an electric contrivance sends
sound wave down through the wa
ter to the bottom, which sends back
an echo.
Knowing the speed at which
sound travels through water, it is
easy to calculate thNedepth. The
machine does it for you. 1t is
feeble sOund-one hundred and six
ty thousand vibrations to the sec
ond. No human ear could pick it
up, but the machine records it.
twenty-five thousand vibrations per
second is the limit of your ear, and
that is not bad for a primitive con-
trivance like a human being.
Newton D. Baker, secretary of
war in the big" war, tells gradual
ing students of the Massachusetts
Institute for Technology it is their
duty to carry science into politics."
Scientists, Mr.. Baker thought, must
seek for "the solution of world
problems when the great interna-
tiOnal crisis comes, as it surely will
come"
A sufficient "great crisis" seems
to be here now, with many cOun-
tries wanting to fight each other,
different classes already fighting
each other, and In this richest cOun-
try in the world-ten million human
beings living practically on charity.
If that is not a real crisis, few
would care to see one.
George Bernard Shaw, not yet
eighty, says, II must give up public
speaking, am too old" That sur
prises you from a Celt and an Irish
man. At eighty many men have been
vigorous in thought and body; for
instance, Pope Leo, Won MOltke,
Gladstone, Michelangelo.
Not one of those. however, suf-
fered from handicaps that have aged
George Bernard Shaw prematurely;
he is a vegetarian and teetOtaler.
In spite Of England's pitifully
weak and belated backdown on sane
tiOns, due to London's fear of Mus
sOlini's air fleet; a backdOwn de-
nounced as cowardice by Lloyd
George, Britain, for facesaving pur-
poses, will maintain a great fleet in
the Mediterranean. Mussolini will
welcome such convenient air and
submarine targets near home as
sort Of British hostages to fortune.
Nj. Auriol announces that France
will not devalue the franc any fur
ther. 1t has already been reduced by
80 per cent, as though our dollar
had been knocked down to twenty
cents instead Of fifty-nine cents.
Prime Minister Blum knows that it
does not pay to scare capital out of
it's wits, something that our best
Washington minds have still to
learn. The French wOrkmen will
have their forty-hOur week and the
strikes are about over.
Returning to the real American
interest, the defeat of Joe Louis,
young gentlemen and old will OBJ
serve that it is most important in
all undertakings not to be, afraid.
worn out or cowardly. Fighters that
Louis had encountered saw before
them IAN invincible conqueror Of
mon