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NATION BECKONS
SOCIAL PIONEERS
TO NEW FIELDS
In the Civil war period it was
Horace Greeley who bade young
men, “Go West.” Many o£ those
who had worn the blue in the great
conflict sought the frontier in the
hope of finding livelihood and then
going on to fortune. It was their
presence which made the West dif¬
ferent from the East in ways which
have never yet been reconciled.
Eor modern youth there is no
great area of iand awaiting settlers.
If a college graduate seeks a place
■upon a frontief he must select the
only frontier that is open. He must
become a social pioneer in the field
where urgent problems are to be
taken apart and then recast in a
form that shall be workable. An
entire nation is waiting for adjust¬
ments in its vital affairs.
These new degree holders are
equipped psychologically for the
work that demands attention. Dur¬
ing four formative years they have
realized day after day that human
arrangements good enough in the
past have failed to continue the
comfort and the security of which
America has boasted.
By slow and painful steps the
most able of the young people will
make their way to positions of au¬
thority. As the opportunity appears
tbey will apply their talents to the
reorganization of the country in
which they will be dominant.—
“Uncle Dudley,” in the Boston Sun¬
day Globe.
Scientist Claims That
Noises Can Be Deadly
Do women make more noise than
motor cars'?
According to an American pro¬
fessor of physics, yes. Giving evi¬
dence in an action to restrain a fac¬
tory from making an excessive
amount of noise, he described experi¬
ments with a sound meter which he
bad carried out in the district. These
showed that women talking in their
homes made 40 times more noise
than the factory, and 50 per cent
more noise than passing cars.
Apparently women talk more loud¬
ly in America, for experiments In
this country show “loud conversa¬
tion” as only double the noise of a
suburban street, and two-thirds that
of a pneumatic drill at 20 feet dis¬
tance.
But the worst noise of all, accord¬
ing to one distinguished scientist, is
one we can’t hear. A few months
ago he showed the congress of radio
biology how ultra-sound waves could
burn the fingers of a man holding a
glass tube, although the tube itself
was not heated. He claimed that it
was possible to be killed by these
vibrations, which were really sounds,
although they could not be perceived
by the naked ear.—London Answers.
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Lights of New York
by L. L. STEVENSON
Instead of going to the theater or
the movies, many New Yorkers now
spend entire evenings in broadcasting
studios. For a complete evening, plan¬
ning and forethought are necessary
since so many of the broadcasts are so
popular that requests for tickets must
be made well in advance of the de¬
sired date despite the fact that some
of the studios seat 1,400 persons. Also
it is not possible to enjoy a continu¬
ous show since the visitor cannot get
from one studio to another in time,
especially since the tickets are not
goood later than 15 minutes before the
broadcast. But the breaks serve the
same purpose as do Intermissions in
the legitimate theater and are spe¬
cially welcomed by smokers since
smoking is forbidden in the studios
and ushers are on hand to enforce tiie
rule.
* • *
Many- out-of-towners are Included
among the broadcast audiences. Not
only are there those who obtain their
own tickets, but also many whose
tickets have been obtained for them by
New Yorkers. It is a thrifty way to
entertain guests, as the tickets cost
nothing. Also the visitors get a kick
out of seeing in the flesh those whom
they hear at their own firesides. Not
infrequently, stage stars appear on the
programs and thus, there is double re¬
turn for the time expended. One out
of-towner on a recent evening, saw
and heard stars, who, if seen from a
theater seat, would have necessitated
an expenditure of about $20 at box
office prices. On occasions, stage
stars are to be seen In the audi¬
ences.
* * *
Autograph collectors find the studios
excellent hunting grounds. As a rule,
the stars are ready to sign as many
cards as possible. Ed Wynn is the
most accommodating of all. He usual¬
ly doesn’t get out of the studio for
more than an hour after his broadcast.
Rudy Vallee sneaks away by means of
some unwatched elevator. Joe Cook
gets out the quickest of all. He makes
his exit during the sign off.
Strolling along Fifty-eighth street,
I had the chilling sensation of seeing
what looked like a truck load of head¬
less human bodies. Investigation re¬
vealed the fact that they weren’t
bodies—just dummies for use in store
windows. That reminds me that a
retired actress makes a living of sorts
by bathing dummies and renewing
their make-up.
Then there’s Hal Conklin. He plays
the part of the body in “If a Body,”
a current thriller with laughs. He
certainly earns his money. Not long
after the first curtain, he is crammed
into a closet. He falls out of that as
well as several windows. He is
stuffed into a truck and carried down¬
stairs to the cellar where he is buried
under a pile of coal. After being all
but thrust into a furnace, he is taken
back to the closet. At the conclusion
of the play, he looks as if he suffers
a lot for his art.
Mayor LaGuardia’s ban on hurdy
gurdys stopped much of the dancing
on the sidewalks of New York, but
there will be free dancing in the parks
again this summer. Work relief or¬
chestras will furnish the music. The
rules are simple—coats on and hats
off for men, and girls must not dance
together.
* • *
Persistent people, the Finns. There
was the servant girl who was de¬
frauded out of her life savings, $1,000,
by three slickers. She didn’t know
their names but she did know that one
of the men had a big red nose. So
she kept hunting for that nose—and
found it. Now three young men are in
jail and the police say they have the
gang who made a practice of swindling
Finnish working girls.
® Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Chicken Rides Rods on
100-Mile Rail Journey
Bellefontaine, Ohio.—Big Four rail¬
road employees, who watched a hen
“ride the rods” of a caboose in the
railroad yards here recently, thought
she might be bumming her way back
to Rhode Island. The chicken, accord¬
ing to Conductor C. O. Heilman, hung
on for more than 100 miles en route
to Cleveland, but hopped off at Rock
port, Ohio, to look around.
Elk Flourish
J&ckson, Wyo.—The state fish and
game department, the forest service
and the biological survey recently com¬
pleted the census of elk in Jackson
Hole and reported a total of at least
22,035.
Girl’s Life Saved
by Daring Surgery
Prague.—All Czechoslovakia is
thrilled by a daring piece of sur¬
gery by which a beautiful girl, shot
through the head by a jealous
sweetheart, was restored to life.
Dr. Anton Timko performed the
operation on Franziska Czernos.
The bullet pierced the forehead
and penetrated the skull.
Doctor Timko trepanned the
skull, removed the bullet and
stopped the bleeding.
Franziska recovered ten days aft¬
er the operation and has now been
released from the hospital. This
is the first time on record in Eu¬
rope that such an operation has
succeeded.
CLEVELAND COURIER
"QUOTES"
COMMENTS ON
CURRENT TOPICS BY
NATIONAL CHARACTERS
NRA DECISION
By ALFRED SLOAN. JR.
Motor Magnate.
r I A HE highest wage scale is the
X best wage scale, providing it
is not out of balance with other
factors in the national economy.
So far as the broader Implications
of the NRA decisions are concerned, I
am satisfied that they will eventually
be recognized as vital steps forward In
promoting a sane industrial recovery.
Sooner or later we are bound to rec¬
ognize that regimentation and bureau¬
cracy have no part in our national
economy. They can only produce one
result—lowered efficiency, increased
costs and reduced standard of living.
We have also to recognize the fal¬
lacy of the “theory of scarcity” upon
which many of our recovery programs
are based. Recovery can be promoted
only by increasing productivity. Arbi¬
trary and uneconomic increases of the
factors that make up prices penalize
productivity and retard recovery. Em¬
ployment is reduced as well.
FOOLHARDY PANACEAS
Of By HENRY H. HEIMANN
National Association of Credit Men.
TN THE broader field of endeav
X or that confronts us in these
days we must eventually find a
growing responsibility taken by each
individual to do his bit for the better¬
ment of mankind. Here is the field
that presents tremendous opportu¬
nities, but in our endeavor to promote
the happiness, health and the comfort
of our people, care must be exercised
to avoid these foolhardy panaceas
which have taken such a toll from peo¬
ple throughout history.
We see the ranks of the unemployed
and many accept them as a permanent
condition. They do not realize that
half of the people employed today are
working in industries that did not exist
50 years ago. Fifty years hence half
of our people gainfully employed in
industry will probably be performing
labor as yet undiscovered, perhaps not
even within the minds of -the present
generation.
NATIONAL PROBLEMS
By HENRY A. WALLACE
Secretary of Agriculture.
/ T'ODAY, when farmers and
X laboring men ask for a dele¬
gation of federal power equivalent
to the tariff or the corporate form of
organization, or the federal banking
structure, they are in danger of being
met by some such statement as this:
“It is not the province of the court
to consider the economic advantages
or disadvantages of such a centralized
system. It is sufficient that the fed¬
eral Constitution does not provide for
It.”
I am reminded of that famous ob¬
servation by Justice Holmes: “The life
of the law is not logic; the life of the
law is experience.” Presumably if the
experience of the American people sug¬
gests that the advantages of attacking
national problems nationally outweigh
the disadvantages, then sooner or
later national problems will be at¬
tacked nationally. Necessity is the
mother of social, as well as of me¬
chanical, invention.”
NEW DEAL AND COURTS
By CHARLES K. BURDICK
Dean of Cornell Law School.
TN VIEW of the emergency and
X the consequent recognition of
the common importance of any
national program adopted to meet gen¬
eral economic and social problems, it
might be possible that the Supreme
court would now uphold congressional
legislation imposing as a condition of
interstate shipment of goods compli¬
ance with rules as to quantity of pro¬
duction, wages, hours of work and col¬
lective bargaining.
If public opinion is strongly and per¬
sistently in favor of changes and de¬
velopments In government, a way to
accomplish the desires of the people
will, of course, be found.
In the United States, where the or¬
ganic law is the supreme law of the
land, the courts may delay, they may
to some extent direct, but they cannot,
In the long run, withstand a defined
and persistent public opinion.
THE TV A PROJECT
President By JOUETT SHOUSE
American Liberty League
''T'HE TVA is a perfect example
X of irresponsible political and
economic bureaucracy. Its de¬
clared objectives are, of course, com¬
mendable and proper, but in reality
the whole authority is a federally
sponsored experiment in state social¬
ism. It is noteworthy that no matter
how socialistic some of our recent ex¬
periments are, their sponsors have re¬
fused to present them under their
proper labels.
SOCIAL SECURITY
By MISS FRANCES PERKINS
Secretary of Labor.
TN TWO years the United States
X has worked out a system of
job insurance that took Europe
15 years to accomplish. The bill is
subject to change, for It is a human
with human imperfections,
representing compromises among vari¬
ous factions. But I know that once it
is in the laws of this land we shall not
abandon It, but improve upon it from
year to year.
WNU Service.
MAKE NO CLAIM
OF “SURE” CURES
FOR HUMAN ILLS
Can all children be Immunized
against infantile paralysis as against
diphtheria and smallpox? That is
the question which the nation’s anx¬
ious mothers have been asking of
Dr. William II. Park since the di¬
rector of New York’s health depart¬
ment bureau of laboratories an¬
nounced the discovery of a new vac¬
cine for the disease. In the Parents’
Magazine, Doctor Park answers with
a qualified, “No, not yet.”
“To begin with, the process of ob¬
taining vaccine is costly and compli¬
cated,” explained the doctor. “We
can make only from 200 to 300 doses
a week in the laboratories of the
department of health, and we have
not perfected methods of storing it
for future use. Of course, if we had
j more money, we could produce more
! vaccine. As it is, there is not enough
to inoculate every child in the Unit¬
ed States. So distribution of the
vaccine must necessarily be limited
now to those who have actually been
exposed to the disease and to groups
of children under five years of age
whose reactions can be studied over
a course of years.”
In addition to cost and complica¬
tion, Doctor Park declares that
science is hampered in its efforts
towards wholesale immunization by
its own lack of knowledge.
“We know that poliomyelitis is
caused by a virus which we believe
enters the nervous system, not the
blood stream, through the nerves
governing our sense of smell. We
think there are ‘carriers’—people
who carry this virus from one to
another. We believe it is not carried
by insects nor have we found any
indication of any other source of in¬
fection. We know that SO per cent
of the adults are immune.”
Five months is the usual duration
of an epidemic, and Doctor Park is
hopeful the new vaccine will protect
inoculated children through one
siege of the epidemic at least, if not
for a lifetime.—Kansas City Star.
Bee’s “Sweet Tooth”
Though they deal in nectar and
honey all their lives, bees do not
have as sensitive a “sweet tooth” as
human beings, it lias been discov¬
ered by Prof. Karl von Frisch of
Munich.
Science Service reported that Pro
sessor Von Frisch had “trained” bees
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