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' A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Lying lips are abomination to the Lord,
but they that deal- truly are his delight.
A prudent man concealeth knowledge, but
■ . the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule,
but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Heaviness in the heart of a man rhaketh
it stoop; but a good word maketh it glad.
In the way of righteousness is life, and
in the pathway thereof there is no death.
-—Proverbs.
Portraits of Lenine-
MEN are still debating whether Julius
Caesar was more of a Roman poli
. tician than a statesman of ‘world
outlook; whether Catherine de MeP’.ci was a
bloody vixen, or a gifted and gracious lady
ringed around with dangerous foes;- whether
Lord Bacon was indeed either the “bright
est,” the “wisest” or the “meanest of man
kind;” whether Oliver Cromwell was an
iron-fisted bigot, or a glorious vindicator of
human freedom; whether Napoleon- wag a
master spirit of the ages, or, as the loqua
cious Mr. Wells would have it, "a cockerel
crowing on a dunghill.” These and many a
like controversy bid fair to wear out a hun
dred winters more. But when we come to
contemporary opinion on so far-shadowing
a figure as Nicolai Lenine, there Is, out
aide of Russia, remarkable agreement.
One observer will see in tne Bolshevist
chieftain traits, of character or hues of tem
perament which another will miss; and es
timates differ as to the degree both of his
greatness and of his evil. But in the Eng
lish-speaking world, at least, there appears
no wide divergence of judgment on the es
sential soul of the man or on the sum of
his work. This may be ascribable to the
, A bent and the tradition of the Anglo-Saxon
mind, which has nothing in common with
Bolshevism; but more likely it is Lenine
himself who leaves the singular sameness
of impression. An example or two will be
found Interesting.
A British man of letters and member of
Parliament, Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, writing in
the “CornhiH” magazine, deems Lenine “too
opinionated for greatness, a sectary living
1 on borrowed doctrine, rather than a think
| sr.” It is recalled that men as broad-
minded and as discerning as Mr. Bertrand
Russell, Dr. Hagberg and Mr. Rranting all
found the Russian dictator "thoroughly dis
appointing.” Neither wit. nor imagery nor
eloquence marked his writing, but “only a
■trong, dogged, pedantic insistence on cer
tain cardinal ideas.” Nevertheless, “it is
impossible to deny to him a certain large
effectiveness. He had the irritable, intense
originality which belongs to a man whose
sense of values is utterly different from that
which prevails in the organization of the
world of which he is a part. He never look
ed round a subject. He never calculated the
cost of a plan. Os the dialectical power
which goes to the making of a philosopher
he was utterly devoid. His strength and his
weakness lay in the fact that he did not
challenge his creed, hut was prepared to let
it carry him to the end of the world. Os
any form of speculation not fully in accord
with his own he was stupidly scornful, and
was content to dismiss Berkeley, Hume and
Kant as the framers of nonsensical philoso
phies designed “to maintain the proletariat
in slavery.” Intellectually, this analyst con
cludes, Lenine was “quite third-rate.”
A darker side of the Soviet ty rani Is seen
by Ariadna Williams, who writes of him in
the London "Contemporary Review” as a
| terrorist and a destroyer. Frightfulness was
to him “a weapon for leveling minds in an
effort to nationalize public opinion simulta
neously with the nationalization of capital.”
His lust for destruction was insatiable.
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"When the rftvdlutidn reached its extreme
limit,” says tyrs. Williams,” not only all
manifestations of a rebellious spirit, but
mere freedom of thought became An object
of hatred for him. So for some time Rus
sia w-as converted into a graveyard. Life
came to a standstill. The site was cleared
for the erection of the new structure, for
the creation of the promised Communist
State. Lenine, however, proved powerless
to build anything whatsoever. It may be
that in order to attempt any constructive
statesmanship at least some Spark of faith
in mankind Is necessary. Bakunin's old
formula, “The spirit of destruction is the
spirit of creation,” was brilliantly refuted
by LAnine.”
If these Mews appear tinged with national
prejudice, consider one other, that of a gift
ed fellow-countryman of the Soviet chief. M.
Victor Chernov, a Russian scholar and man
of affairs, who was a minister in Kerensky's
ill-starred government, knew Lenine at first
hand and knows as one to the manner born
the nation that was the stage for his red
drama. In a recent issue of “Foreign Af
fairs,” published in New York, M. Chernov
describes Lenlne’s intellect as “energetic,
but cold . . . above all, an iron, sarcastic
and cynical intellect.” Sentimentality he
condemned as the unpardonable sin; and all
moral considerations in politics struck him
as sentimental. To succeed, no matter how,
was the only virtue; to fail, from whatever
cause, was the only crime. Note especially
these strokes from a portrait pairtter who
knew him well: “Lenine was often accused
of not being and of not wanting to be an
‘honest adversary.’ But then the very idea
of an 'honest adversary’ was to him an ab
surdity, a smug citizen’s prejudice, some
thing that might be made use of now and
then jesuitically in one’« own interest; but
to take it seriously was silly. A defender of
the proletariat is under an obligation to put
aside all scruples in dealings with the foe.
To deceive him intentionally, to calumniate
him, to blacken his name, all this Lenine
considered as normal. In fact, it would
be hard to exceed the cynical brutality with
which he proclaimed all this. Lenine’s con
science consisted in putting himself outside
the boundaries of human conscience in all
dealings with his foes; and in thus reject
ing all principles of honesty he remained
honest with himself.”
Whatever the future may think of Lenine’s
theory, there would seem to be little doubt
as to what It will think of his character. In
every land and every age strong men,, grap
pling with great Issues, call forth bitter an
tagonisms as well as arf-Snt loyalties, so
much so that history sometimes must wait
generations for a. calm' and just verdict.
Moreover, circumstances are often so com
plex and human motives so mixed that it be
comes puzzling to say whether the mingled
yarn of a famous career shows more of good
or of ill. We are prone to-classify the public
men of our own day, along with those of his
tory, aS either heroes of villains, a method
that satisfies prejudice and saves thinking.
For all this, however, there are certain fun
damentals of character that stand proclaimed
above the thickest dust and lowdest din of
Controversy; certain grandeurs of spirits like
William of Orange, or Washington, or Lee
that shine as unmistakably and as superior
to challenge as the stars of heaven. Such
men we call not merely great, but noble; and
it matters little how the storms of an hour
beat about them, they are secure for the ages.
What had Le» e in common with these?
Nothing. He was their antithesis —cynical,
destructive, faithless to humanity's final
hopes. So it is that portraitists, studying
him Irom different schools of politics and
different corners of th- world, give us pic
tures of him which, how different soever in
details, are curiously alike in effect.
QUIZ
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y. What did Greek and Roman fighters
wear on their hands when boxing? C. McN.
A. They fought with a caestus —a con
trivance made of leather bands bound
around the hand aixd wrist, often weighted
with lead or iron—and the battle usually
was to the death.
Q. Please give name and location of the
largest dam in the world, also mention the
“also rans.” F. A.
A. Wilson dam in Alabama is the largest,
containing 1,291.385 cubic yards of masonry.
The next in size is the Assuan dam. Egypt,
with 1.179.000 cubic yards of masonry; then
the Keusico, New York, 942.000 cubic yards;
the New Croton, New York,-855,000 cubic
yards; and Keokuk. lowa-Illinois. 540.000
cubic yards.
Q. Who said “Every tub must stand upon
its own bottom?" G. N.
A. This appears in Bunyans “Pilgrims
Progress.” “Every fat (vat) must stand
upon his bottom."
Q. What were the first ten cars manufac
tured in the United States?
A. Not until early in the twentieth cen
tury were there ten or more gasoline auto
mobiles on the market in the United States.
These were the Duryea. Ford. Franklin,
Haynes, Knox, Olds, Packard, Pierce-Arrow.
Stearns, Thomas and Winton. They are not
given in order of their appearance, as this
is a matter of controversy.
Q. Why are annular rings in a cross sec
tion of a cut tree? M. S. H.
A. The structure of the wood developed
in the summer is different from that devel
oped in. autumn, and the alternation makes
the lines of growth show plainly. Some
tropical trees show no annular rings, prob
ably indicating that the growth is identical
i throughout the year.
SLANDER
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
What has gone before — Miriam Fol
well, a young business woman, has had
an episode in her life which, although
innocent enough, has caused scandal.
She has almost forgotten this when she
meets Anthony Breen, who is a stickler
for convention. The two fall passion
ately in love, byt Miriam does not real
ize Anthony's attitude toward life until
he takes her to meet his mother. —Nou
go on with the story.
CHAPTER XXVI
Anthony’s Mother
INSIDE it seemed to Miriam that a thick
gloom prevailed. The entrance hall was
dark, the wainscoting of somber oak.
She had an impulse to walk softly and to
lower her voice to a whisper, although she
doubted if she could speak at all, for her
throat choked as she followed the black
garbed maid across the hall, and down a
long corridor to a room at the far end. The
floor was so thickly carpeted that she could
not hear Anthony's footsteps following her.
She seemed alone and she faltered for a
moment on the threshold of what seemed to
be a large library.
An old woman sat in a large chair by
the fireplace. She looked at Miriam from
under beetling brows as the girl crossed the
room toward her, and then Anthony was
spying:i
“Mother, this is Miriam. She has prom
ised to be my wife.”
Miriam longed to be simple and natural,
but her face, felt frozen as she tried to
smile. She was conscious of hard old eyes
fixed upon her, of a long hatchet face and a
thin, disagreeable mouth.
“How do you do, Mrs. Breen?” she heard
herself murmuring, and then acting on im
pulse, she, stooped and touched her fresh
lips to the withered cheek.
“Well, Anthony, so you’ve condescended
to bring your future wife to see me,” Mrs.
Breen spoke for the first time in a, dry tone
that to Miriam sounded like a cackle. “She's
pretty enough to have snared even you, al
though they say there's no fool like an’ old
ohe.”
Anthony laughed. “Not so old, mother."
“Old enough to have some sense. Bring
a chair for the girl and sit down, both of
voir. I hope yon don’t belong to the mod
ern school, young woman. Girls of today
don’t seem to realize the importance of mar
riage, they take, everything as a joke.”
“I take, my love for Anthony quite seri
ously." Miriam’s voice was soft. “I love
him, you see."
“Oh, you love him, do you? Well, that
remains to be seen. And now, Marbury will
take you upstairs where you can leave your
things. Dinner will be served shortly. I’m
too old to wait for late dinners.”
Miriam found herself following the black
garbed maid out of the room and up a. long
curving staircase. Anthony remained be
hind. No doubt he and his mother would
want to be alone to talk, and Mrs. Breert
expected implicit obedience from this out
sider who through good fortune was to
marry into the exclusive house of Breen.
The thought filled Miriam with rebellion,
and yet she felt helpless. The atmosphere
of the house was dreary, oppressive. The
large bedroom where she was now standing
was furnished in dark wood, and the bed
had a great canopy over it. Miriam shiver
ed at the thought of remaining overnight
in this hou*se. She longed to be away from
here, she wanted to be alone with Anthony
in the brightness of her own cozy apart
ment, for here she was like an automaton,
moving about as if in a dream. She was
not expected to show any individuality, she
must be obedient and docile and nothing
more.
Downstairs Anthony and his mother sat
silent, in the big library, and then finally the
old lady spoke.
“Well, Anthony, I see you've fallen for a
pretty face. In that respect you’re no differ
ent from most men. I suppose the girl is a
nobody, no family, nn social position, noth
ing I would have chosen as necessary qual
ities for your wife. You say she’s living
alone in New York without a chaperon? I
suppose we can count ourselves lucky if
she's kept herself free from scandal. Are
you sure you know everything there is to
know about her? Os course, you're in love
and for that reason willing enough to be led
around by the nose!”
CHAPTER XXVTT
Miriam Makes a Break
THINGS were little better during dinner.
Miriam felt the strain of behaving as
Anthony would want her to behave.
It made her nervous to suppress her real
self, and Anthony's deference to his mother
made Miriam realize, where she, herself,
stood with him. Os course, Anthony loved
her, but with him tradition stood first- It
did not occur to him to take for granted the
fact that his mother must accept the new
conditions; it was Miriam who must mold
herself into the kind of woman Mrs. Breen
wanted for Anthony's wife.
Miriam said very little. She sat in the
high-backed chair eating food that it almost
choked her to get down. She smiled mechan
ically, she answered questions when they
were put to her —and things might have
passed off rather well if the subject of the
wedding hadn't for the moment put Miriam
off her guard.
“I suppose you won't want to wait,” Mrs.
Breen was saying. “There's no particular
reason for waiting, and the fact that Miriam
lives alone makes it all the more necessary
for you to marry soon.' I would suggest,
Miriam, that you come and stay here with
me. The wedding shall be from here, and
after that, you and Anthony can remain here
or go where you please. I don't suppose
you’d either of you be contented to live
here.”
Miriam was startled. She and Anthony had
made no definite plans for the wedding, they
had been content to drift, and there were
many things to be settled before they could
talk of marriage.
“Oh. but I couldn't do that." Miriam
spoke in her ordinary tone of voice, she was
once more the independent working woman
capable of making her own plans. “It's
very good of you, Mrs. Breen, but Anthony
and I have had no chance ot talk things
over and make plans. I have my work to
think of, and I must dispose of my responsi
bilities before anything else. Anthony
knows that.”
In a minute she knew what she had done.
' Anthony had warned her about telling his
I mother of her work, and she had promised
■to be careful. She flushed scarlet and bit
her lip nervously. At that moment she did
not dare to meet Anthony's eyes, she felt
as if she were caught in a trap.
“Responsibilities,” Mrs. Breen was sav
ing. “Work? Anthony, I'm afraid you have
been keeping things back from me.
“That's quite true, mother." Anthony re
turned quickly, and, listening to him, Miriam
■ was struck with the way his voice resembled
I his mother's dry cackle. She suffered a mo
ment of revulsion, and then she forgot ev
erything in what he was saying.
“I saw no reason for telling you about
Miriam's job. I hardly thought you would
approve, and. of course, she is giving up her
work immediately."
Miriam tnrn s d her eyes in Anthony's di-
I rection, but he did not look at her. His
THE COUNTRY HOME ,
BY MRS. M'. H. FELTON
THE CASE OF MR. DAUGHERTY
a FTER Mr. Daugherty had resigned his
Z-\ position as attorney general of the
United States it was published far and
wide that he would defend himself as a pri
vate citizen, from charges which he had not
been allowed to resent by Wheeler's probe
committee in the senate. Such action was
manifestly human. The public expected what
the newspapers called a “deadly blast.” His
resignation was forced by niembe s of his
own party, and the defense could n. t get the
opportunity to deadly blast such people as
Jake Hamon, who, although dead, was free
ly quoted, and the convicted train robber,
Jennings, and the so-called Mrs. Jess Smith,
who left her husband before he committed
Suicide, and resumed her first name, Miss
Stimson. Her character record had been
fully explained in the newspapers of Ohio,
and yet she was given four days before the
senate to repeat over and over again what
she averred was told by Jess Smith to her
before he killed himself.
The attorney general had no showing at
all. His legal counsel vainly protested. It
was no go. Fifty years from now this fake
trial before a senate committee will be freely
discussed, and 1 hazard nothing when I
prophesy, will be freely condemned. This re
public cannot long retain Its name under
such conditions, and the resignation of Mr.
Daugherty will stand on a par, and far more,
the trial of Hallet Kilbourn before the
forty-fourth congress, when I was in Wash
ington City and familiar with every nay's
proceedings in congress. It did not hurt Mr.
Kilbourne socially. His daughter married
the son of a Georgia senator, later on, if my
information was correct, and I feel sure it
is correct. To return to Mr. Daugherty’s
case, it is well to say that he was eminently
wise in refusing to do what his political ene
mies were nagging him to do, namely, to
repel their secret enmity by giving the public
the Inside facts and thus blasting both the
foes of the arraigned official and the cruel
opposition. It was fully expected that this
wounded Samson would grasp the pillars of
the tabernacle and pull down the Republican
structure on the gang, thus bull-baiting him,
and thus annihilate his own political exist
ence for all time to come.
But he did not do this vgr.v suggestive
thing, because it would have been called re
venge by the Republicans who disliked him,
and a victory of Jake Hamon's witnesses
and Al Jennings, train robber, as a witness,
and of r MiSs Stimson, who is better known
and less important in Ohio, than before the
partisan Wheeler committee. Unless the
prosecution of her husband kills Mr. Daugh
erty's sick wife, and unless Mr. Daugherty
should become too ill to do what he mani
festly intends to do after the political deck
is cleared for final action. Harry Daugherty
will make the welkin ring when his time
comes to tell what he knows about the
entire political posse; I look for him to
come to the front in Ohio, and it never fails
when a human being has sufficient force and
intellect to fasten the truth and such injus
tice on the minds of his hearers, that the
“come-bslck” is a wipner. The world loves
a fighter who is unafraid. The reply made
by Daugherty was one of the finest things
An Epoch-Marking Invention —By Science Service
IONDON. —A new steam generator, revo
litionizing conceptions of steam en
gineering, has been given a trial
at Rugby. It is capable of producing power
from coal at an overall efficiency of some
thing like 28 to 30 per cent. This approach
es the efficiency of the Deisel oil-burning
engine, which is about 35 per cent, and is
in contrast to 17 to 18 per cent efficiency
for the most modern super-power station at
350 pounds pressure and 700 degrees Fah
renheit superheat. Its efficiency rivals that,
of the new mercury vapor boiler recently
developed in America.
The generator is the invention of M, Ben
son, of the Benson Engineering company, of
London. Its principle is the production of
steam at a pressure of 3,200 pounds per
square Inch and at the “critical tempera
ture” of water, 706 degrees Fahrenheit.
This is by far the highest pressure ever
uesd in steam production.
The “critical temperature” of any liquid
is the temperature above which it no longer
can exist as a liquid, no matter how high
the pressure. Above that point the whole
of the liquid changes suddenly and com
pletely into a gas without alteration of
volume. The phenomenon can be observed
in a laboratory using liquid carbon dioxide,
from which soda water is made, sealed in *
thick glass tube and heating it slowly to 89
degrees Fahrenheit, when the whole of the
liquid suddenly changes into gas. The ap
plication of this principle to water is the
basis of the Benson generator, which is de
scribed by “Chemistry and Industry” here
as follows:
“In the ‘Benson’ generator water is con
verted into steam at the critical tempera
ture of 706 degrees Fahrenheit, that is, the
whole mass of the water in the coils is
bodily changed into steam at the same vol
ume without the absorption of any latent
heat, since the volume remains the same.
It will be obvious that as no latent heat is
absorbed, there is no ebullition or "boiling,”
that is, the sudden conversion of small parti
cles of water in comparatively large bub
bles of steam, the energy required for this
increase in volume constituting the latent,
or lost heat.
"It is on these highly ingenious lines that
the essential trouble of the small-bore coil
steam-generator has been overcome, the fact
that because of the absorption of latent heat
and consequent boiling the water will not
remain in contact with the sides of the
tube, and the generation of steam is spas
modic and apt to be explosive. The gen
eration of steam at the critical temperature
has, of course, completely eliminated this
difficulty so that narrow-bore steel coils can
be used which will withstand almost any
pressure; in fact, the present- intsallation is
said to have been tested hydraulically to
6,400 pound pressure.
“The actual installation at Rugby, which
is only one of a number of diferent arrange
ments possible, consists of generator coils of
3 i-lnch steel tube, U-inch thick, placed to
a height of 8 feet, round an inner vertical
cylinder of firebrick. This is surrounded
by an outer casing and a superheater, con
face was stern and set, his voice cold and
his lips were drawn into a straight line.
"And if I may ask,” Mrs. Breen was say
ing dryly, “what is this work, Anthony?
Now that the cat is out of the bag, I sup
pose I am entitled to know. Are you a
stenographer, my dear, or perhaps a mani
curist, or a department store clerk?”
Miriam drew a long breath. She felt sud
denly as if the restraint that had held her
all evening had dropped from her, and she
was free at last.
“I design dresses for the firm of Carson
& Holland. Mrs. Breen. I am not ashamed
I of it, and it was wrong to keep it from you.
There is no reason why you should not
know.”
Her young eyes looked directly into the
old ones opposite, and it was Mrs. Breen
who first looked away, but she never after-
Tuesday—"A Temporary Readjustment”
and "Suspicion."
j ward forgot that fact, as Miriam was to
realize later.
SATURDAY, APRIL 12. 1924.
| J ever read in such a combat of brains and
courage.
THE STATE OF LINCOLN
I LIVED before the Civil war and suffered
through it and have survived the near
ly sixty years since it. was over, but I
have heard something lately that I never
heard before, although I have tried to keep
in mind all the happenings of this extended
period.
Until a few days ago I never knew that
it had been seriously proposed to authorize
a new state, which would have included the
section where I have sojourned for more
than seventy years, and that state was to be
bounded on the north by West Virginia, and
would also include a part of old Virginia on
the west, a considerable part of western
North Carolina and as much of Kentucky
and Tennessee on the east, with a small part
of South Carolina, a part, of the Ninth con
gressional district of Georgia and a good
deal more of the Seventh d4«trict, with Car
tersville on the southern' border and a part
of northeastern Alabama. The diagram was
shown in the aforesaid article and it would
have been a state as large as New Jersey, or
either Vermont or New Hampshire.
The first name suggested was Appalacia,
because the Appalachian range of mountains
was a distinguishing feature, but after Presi
dent Lincoln was assassinated by Wilkes
Booth the name w r as to be Linfoln. with a
capital in the neighborhood of Knoxville,
Tennessee.
At that time Milledgeville was the capital
of the state of Georgia. It was not moved
to Atlanta until Governor Bullock's time,
and he was elected in 1868.
It might have been done, and the perfect
ed plan carried out easily, because the se
cession states had no representation in con
gress to make violent opposition, until the
early ’7 os.
It was not explained as to its failure in
this magazine article here mentioned. And
I cannot understand why it was not “nar
rated” in Georgia while it was being planned.
I surely am perplexed to know that it es
caped my vigilance. I began to cultivate
scrap books in 1874, and this proposition
would have been interesting, of course, and
given prominence.
The magazine article proceeds to say that
the inhabitants of the proposed Lincoln
state were Union men, by a large majority.
This is apparently true, but I believe the
Ninth district in Georgia had many more
Union men than the Seventh. East Tennes
see and "West Virginia were then, and al
ways, have been, .“Union,” as distinguished
from secession.
The Union men in the upper counties of
Georgia refugeed to east Tennessee and there
were bitter feuds for year§, long after Geor
gia recovered her state sovereignty, and the
embers of hate quickly shine in heat when
a quarrel starts in the mountains. West Vir
ginia is ranked as a Republican state. It is
probable that Lincoln state might have had
more Republicans than Democrats.
But the proposed plan did not materialize,
and if there is ever a state named for Lin
coln it will be in the great west, where sub
divisions can be made in the more sparsely
settled states, that will be subdivided in
years to come.
sisting of similar coils, is placed on the top.
Distilled water is passed in continuously at
the bottom of the coil by means of a motor
driven hydraulic force pump working at
3.200 pound pressure, the evaporation on
the trials being about 8,000 pounds per
hour, although 10,000 pounds is the normal
figure and is easily obtained. The installa
tion is heated from the bottom by means
of an oil blast flame with heated air. Pul
. verized fuel or gas would do equally well.
“The water as it travels upwards through
i the coil is gradually raised to a higher and
higher temperature, until when 90 per cent
' of the total length has been traversed the
: critical temperature of steam, 706 degrees
| Fahrenheit, is attained, the pressure being,
of course, all the time 3,200 pounds. At
! this point the whole mass of the water in
1 the coil, three times the volume when at 60
degrees is bodily and quietly converted into
i steam at the same volume without the ab
sorption of latest heat and without boiling.
“For the remainder of the travel in the
coil the steam is then very slightly super
heated to 720 degrees and subsequently
passed through a reducing valve, during
which the temperature is lowered to 620
degrees and into the superheater, being
finally discharged from the latter at 1,500
pounds pressure, and 850 degrees Fahren-
J heit. It will then be used in a small high
pressure turbine, running at 20,000 to 25,-
000 revolutions per minute, exhausting at
200 pounds, generating 350 kilowatts in the
process, into an ordinary condensing turbine,
I giving a further 900 kilowatts down to a
i 29-inch vacuum.
I “The enormous economy to be obtained by
working at 1,500 pounds and 850 degrees
will be apparent. Further details will be
awaited with interest as the work unques
tionably represents a complete revolution in
steam practice.”
A PARADOX
Lack of necessary plant food in the soil
is necessary to produce big crops. The same
processes which exhaust the land lead to
bumper yields. These apparently paradoxi
cal conclusions have been raeched by Prof.
W. F. Gericks of the Division of Plant Nu
trition of the University of California from
experiments which wili be described in the
next issue of “Science."
During the most active period of their
growth many plants take some of the neces
i sary foods out of the soil faster than these
I foods are returned to the so|l. Professor
Gericke arranged his experiments in order
to determine whether this temporary deple
tion of itself increased the crop-producing
power of the soil.
A large number of wheat seedlings were
started in a solution containing potassium,
; calcium, magnesium, iron, sulphur, nitrogen,
and phosphorus, all the seven elements re-
I quired by plants and supplied by the soil.
Seven other solutions, each lacking one of
[ the required elements, were also prepared.
Wheat plants were set in each of these
partially complete solutions.
At intervals of a month, styne of the
j plants from the solution containing all the
I food elements were transferred to each of
j the partially complete solutions. Changes
were made with different sets at four dif
j ferent periods of growth. Other plants were
grown in the different solutions but were
;not changed.
Professor Gericke found that the plants
which grew one month in the complete solu
j tion and were then put in the solution lack
ing potassium were, after six weeks, more
vigorous, more mature, and twice as big as
those which were kept in the complete solu
tion. Very little growth was made by plants
started in the solution lacking potassium.
These results are in accord with what ac
tually happens in soils growing field crops,
Professor Gericke says that while the re
moval of salt elements from the soil is a
process which leads to infertility, that is,
if the rate ot removal exceeds that of re
plenishment over a long enough period of
time, such removal also plays a beneficial
role in crop production. This temporary
depletion of certain available food elements
in the soil by plants is one of nature s most
important conditions essential to large crop
| production, he says.
TWO KINDS OF FOLKS :
By Dr. Frank Crane
zz it ri OST women,” wrote Tacitus, "are
I\/l better out of their houses than
x * ■* in them.”
The remarks is inaccurate,. but hints at
the truth.
The truth is, there are two kinds of
women: those who shine at home and those
who shine away from home.
There are some women who are-interest
ing, bright, entertaining and attractive only
when they are in the presence of their fam
ily; there they are charming, but the mo
ment a stranger enters they become awk
ward and restrained.
There are others who are never at their
best except in company; a stranger ani
mates them.
Just as there is one kind of woman w’ho
is handsomest when she is at home, beau
tiful when she is baking bread, darning
stockings, or caring for the baby. When
she goes out she is apt to be dowdy. She
can wear a house dress to perfection, but
when she arrays herself for the theater
is a mistake.
The other woman’s home appearance is
simply sinful, while she is admired by every
one when she is in gorgeous array.
Perhaps both kinds are needed. Society
would be a dull affair if it were not for
the women who love crowds and promi
nence; they illuminate what would other
wise be a most boresome affair. •
Some women are made for the delight
of strangers and others for the delight of
their own families.
It is only you, my dear, who are ador
able both at home and abroad.
Still, as in the case of most philosophiz
ing about women, the same observations
might be made of men.
The only reason one says “Women are so
an JL sO b ecause it is more interesting.
.there are home men and away-from
home men. Some are surly and stupid by
the fireside and yet are electric in a meet
ing. There are business men who go to
the office with a sense of relief and others
home haVe that same feelin S on reaching
I have seen distinguished citizens who
were poor fathers, lively college boys who
were slow sons, and pleasant grocers’ who
were most unpleasant husbands.
I know a physician ’who is the Joy of
every household he enters, bringing light
and cheer wherever he goes, except in his
own home. There h< and his wife live like
cat and dog.
And there are fathers worshiped by their
children, husbands adored—and justly—by
their wives, who are nonentities outside the
house door.
Also there are some men and women who
are disagreeable anywhere you put them.
Humanity is full of contradictions. I
have read somewhere that an Englishman
is never at home unless he’s abroad, the
Scotchman is never happy unless he’s mis
erable, and the Irishman is never at peace
unless he's in a fight.
WHY BE FAT?
By H. Addington Bruce
IATELY publicity has been given some
j medical findings stressing the factor of
heredity in cases of obesity. It is im
portant that this be not popularly misinter
preted as meaning that if one grows uncom
fortably stount nothing can be done about it,
since heredity is to blame—and, indeed, that
the growing stout is itself the fault of
heredity.
Nine times out of ten blame for the stout
ness rests chiefly with dietic indiscre
tions. Even in the case of those who have
inherited a tendency to obesity much may
be done to hold this in check by establish
ing wise eating habits.
If such habits are not established, no in
herited tendency need be invoked to explain
the obesity that results. And unfortunately,
so far as their eating habits are concerned,
no end of people resemble the young lady of
whom C. H. Collings amusingly sings:
“Mary had a little lamb,
With gravy and mint sauce,
Potatoes, cabbage, and green peas
(She ate the lot, of course).
‘ She followed up with cherry tarts—
’Twas not against her rule!
A second helping, cheese and bread,
Just packed her nicely full,
“Three little meals like this each day,
Helped out with chocolates,
Provoke the pathologic fray.
Likewise avenging Fates.”
Only those w r ho have Inherited an invinci
ble tendency to leanness can thus eat with
impunity, as regards avoidance of growing
stout. All others, whatever their inheri
tance, may expect to put on weight, perhapi
to a disfiguring and alarming extent.
Rut, having put it on, it usually is possible
to take it off, provided one-is willing to diet
more rigorously than would have been neces
sary to prevent the accumulation of fat. In
especial the fat-forming foods —the oily,
starchy, and sugary foods—have to be cut
down or cut out entirely. Also weight-re
ducing exercise needs to be taken.
This, obviously, makes a pretty severe de
mand on the obese, and the demand is the
more severe in that, as a rule, the obese are
averse to exercise and are particularly fond
of the foods they must avoid. Hence the
failure of many who should reduce, to make
any real effort at reduction.
“It's not worth all the trouble it costs,”
they petulantly exclaim, “and any way it'a
not such a serious matter to be fat.”
Actually it may be an exceedingly serious
matter. To summarize modern medical pro
nouncements regarding the risks which the
obese run:
“There is a close connection between over
weight and diabetes. The obese are peculiar
ly liable to suffer from this disease, and it
would seem that the overeating of starchy
and sugary substances may lead to a patho
logical glycosuria and the production of dia
betes,
“Obesity is a strain on the heart and the
joints. It pushes up the diaphragm and
cramps the lungs. It makes people bear op
erations badly. It is a serious bar to long
expectancy of life. Except in the single in
stance of tuberculosis, the obese are disad
vantaged in the struggle against any dis
ease.”
Under these circumstances, weight reduc
tion is surely worth sincere effort on the
part of those who need it. And, as stated,
weight reduction particularly under medical
direction, usually is within the realm of
possibility. So why be fat?
(Copyright, 1924.)
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES
In ordinary company Sir James Barrie is
frequently shy, silent and ill at ease. Now
and again, however, his quaint humor as
serts itself. As, for example, on receiving
his baronetcy. A friend hastened to con
gratulate him on his new dignity.
"Well, I don’t know,” drawled Barrie.
“When I began writing novels, people said
they were not real novels. When I-began
writing plays, people said they were not real
plays. I expect men are going about now
saying 1 am not a real baronet.”