The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-07-03

GU Lie pOeLry VI LIdNel has uCPdlt-
ed with fast ships on the ocean and
automobiles instead of camels on the
desert.
No matter how often you cross this
Atlantic ocean, or the North American
continent, the crossing is always diff
ferent and interesting. The ocean,
like the wide plains, is forever chang
ing.
Two days age the waves looked like
playthings for children. Last night
the ocean changed its mind and rolled
the waves up high with shrieking
wind. The steward said, "We shall
have to fasten the arm chairs tomor-
row." but the heavy ship paid no at
tention to the waves. The ocean
changed it's mind again and Gained
down.
A speedometer telling how fast the
ship moves is operated by a mechan-
ism below the keel that records the
speed Of the rushing water. Burning
oil produces steam; steam power is
converted into electric power, and that
drives the ship. The captain always
knows how deep the ocean is beneath
him; an electric continuance sends
sound wave down through the water
to the bottom, which sends back an
echo.
Knowing the speed at which sound
travels through water, it is easy to
calculate the depth. The machine does
it for you. 1t is feeble sound-one
hundred and sixty thousand vibra-
tons to the second. No human ear
could pick it up, but the machine re-
cords 1t. Twenty-Five thousand vibra-
tons per second is the limit of your
ear, and that is not bad for primi-
tive contrivance like a human being.
Newton D. Baker, secretary Of war
in the big" war, tells graduating stu
dents of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology it is their duty to
"carry science into politics" Scent
lists, Mr.. Baker thought, must seek
for 'the solution of world problems
when the great international crisis
comes, as it surely will come"
A sufficient "great crisis" seems to
be here now, with many countries
wanting to fight each other, different
classes already fighting each other,
nd tn vsa IN tho
world-ten million human beings liv-
ing practically on charity.
If that is not real crisis, few
would care to see one.
George Bernard Shaw, not yet eighty,
says, Il must give up public speaking,
am too old" That surprises you from
a Celt and an Irishman. At eighty
many men have been vigorous in
thought and body; for instance, Pope
Leo, Won Mo.tke, Gladstone, Michel
angelo.
Not one of those, however, suffered
from handicaps that have aged George
Bernard Shaw prematurely; he is a
vegetarian and a teetotaler. Youth
and strength reside in a saddle of
four-year-old mutton and good, light
claret. greatly diluted with water.
In spite Of England's pitifully weak
and belated backdown on sanctions.
due to London's fear of Mussolini's
air fleet; a backdown denounced as
cowardice by Lloyd George, Britain,
for face-saving purposes, will main
tain great fleet in the Mediterra-
mean. MussOlini will welcome such
convenient air and submarine targets
near home as a sort of British hos
tages to fortune.
M. Auriol announces that France
will not devalue the franc any fur
Their. 1t has already been reduced by
so per cent, as though our dollar had
been Knocked down to twenty cents
instead Of f1fty-nine cents. Prime Min
lister Blum knows that it does not
pay to scare capital out of its 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.
The French, a homogeneous people,
realize that if they destroy France
they will not have much left.
Returning to the real American in
terest, the defeat of Joe Louis, young
gentlemen and old will observe that
it is most important in all undertake
ings not to be afraid. worn out or
cowardly. Fighters that Louis had
encountered saw before them ian in
vincible conqueror of men,"
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