Show a Q A disturbed about world sun spots may hold clue by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator washington if you were disturbed over the mayhem and misunderstandings rampant in the month of jul july relax there may be a scientific explanation sun spots for the first time in 11 years there is a maximum number of ultra violet rays about released by eruptions on the surf surface ace of the sun rays which may cause tempers to flare emotions to get off balance glands to be affected so that abnormal behaviour results this isn t fantasy medical science has revealed the effects of over exposure to the ultra violet ray sun spots may have been cespon sible for the disturbances you and I 1 read about on just one single day last july on that day in in haiti a publisher w was a a assassinated by an otherwise gentle young poet because the bard had lost some kind of a scho larsh p a 33 year old painter who lived near the otherwise pleasant and peaceful ne new w england home of house speaker joe martin at attleboro Att leboro baukhage mass did a dance when he heard his wife was dead it seems he had shat her in the head here in washington a 22 year old husband knocked his wife down tried to stab her with a butcher knife attacked an innocent passerby and started a fist fight with a policeman a vitamin plant blew up a prisoner became ill in of benzedrine poisoning a tanker in chicago caught fire jimmy roose velt feuded other members of the california delegation and the russians kicked up the usual fuss you and I 1 probably had our own troubles all perhaps due to nothing but the rash on old sol a physiognomy scientists will tell you that sun spots were known by the chinese before the telescope made them a comparatively familiar subject of astronomical concern they are not uniform in size or shape and some tunes times appear singly sometimes in groups A single spot may be large enough to take in our whole planet with room to spare groups extend over areas that may include mil lions lons of square miles sun spots do not appear to have a definite duration As a rule they last but a short time sometimes not more than a day but one is recorded in 1940 41 as having con minued for 18 months the number of sun spots vanes varies greatly in a periodicity that is not strictly regular but that reaches an aver age of slightly over 11 years and last month dr roy alar mar shall director of fels planetary plan etarl urn tun in philadelphia echoed an earlier suggestion made here in washington lie ile said that sun pots spots could have a definite effect on the behaviour of people and he reminded us that sun spots reached their last maximum frequency before july 1948 in 1937 when hitler started bis his blitz it was several years ago that no jess less an institution than the con serva tive and careful Smith soran the capital capi js great scientific organ speculated on the possibility that there might be a relationship between sun spots and wars as well wen as sun spots and weather weather affects crops crops affect economic conditions sun spots which release ultra violet rays which affect emo eino eions might an official report to congress suggested disturb negotiations tiati ons between individual leaders which might involve nations in war that a the reasoning anyhow some may think it far fetched shakespeare did when be he said the fault dear brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves poets are frequently right but not perhaps immune to the violence of the violet jay ray witness the haitian poet who shot the publisher at any rate the smithsonian listed considerable technical data showing that sun spot activity frequently had bad preceded wars some scientists say sun spots ma may y have good effects too resulting in heavier foliage better crops more rams as well as their evil cies to disturb interpersonal rela eions not to mention radio corn coin however there Is little we can do about it for as far as we know the sun Is like a leopard it can cant t or won wont t change its spots one free book Is not wasted it if you are one of the lucky farm ers who wrote your congressman promptly asking tor for a copy of the department of agriculture 1948 year book you have a treat in store tor for you the first copies al III ready have come from the govern ment printer but it will be some time before the bulk of the printing is ready for delivery this year a topic Is a live one GIZA grab it deals with the general subject of grass grassa 12 od agriculture and there 4 1 i wt Is something in it for virtually every farmer and if there were enough books to go around could be utilized by everybody who raises a lawn not to mention people who run air ports or playgrounds or any other enclosure of greensward there is a growing interest in this subject one member of the de apartment part ment of agriculture called it a big swing to grass on the part of farmers over most of the country not just as feed but for ma many ny pur poses and functions one farmer near here for instance said to a friend of mine recently that he had quit growing corn tor for silage he uses grass entirely in case you have forgotten you have a chance to get a department part ment of agriculture year book because of a la law passed Ts la in abraham Lincoln time congress every year ap ates a sum of money the department part ment prepares the book under the incumbent editorship of alfred stefferud the govern ment printing office prints binds and delivers copies to members of congress they pass them around as far as they go that s the law this volume Is probably one ot of the few free books which Is not wasted for it goes almost ex elusively clu to people who want it and use it in this order 0 1 farmers 2 state agricultural colleges 3 other colleges for GI G I 1 courses W 4 some high schools later on I 1 shall give you an idea of the contents of the current vo ume which deals comprehensively with the subject of grass including legumes and associated plants be ginning with the history from colonial days the place of grass in building soil and feeding livestock specific information applying to 10 sections of the united states and pictures and descriptions of a different grasses and legumes guard your liberty know dates at least it s almost impossible to believe that any american would not know the meaning of the approaching V J day but will americans years from now remember that september I 1 marked the official end of the bloodiest war in hist oryl perhaps this sounds absurd to you it wouldn t it if you had read the results of one of a series of polls taken by the washington post just before july 4 the post interviewers asked a number of individuals fourth of july is almost here can you tell me why we celebrate it ita eighty five per cent of all persons asked had the right answer twelve per cent had no idea why the fourth is a holiday and 3 per cent thought it was the anniversary of armistice day the en end d of the civil war emancipation of the negroes or some other event one of those who had no idea at all on the subject was credited with a col lege education asked what the day meant to them 39 per cent said in various ways that it meant national free dom to 13 18 per cent it spelled per bonal freedom and liberty in gen eral 11 per cent said it didn dian t mean bothin but a holiday how many of us who admit that hoberty freedom Is our inherent right know what freedom is few unless they have lived in a country where one practices that quick ap look to right and left before he dares comment it a a de gesture I 1 ve seen it and shuddered I 1 hae ha ie quoted W E woodward before in his new american history he says liberty implies responsibility and the vast majority of mankind has always hated response res ability worse than death so in all ages men have run around holding it out before them as one holds a golden vessel offer tag ing it to anyone who possesses enough vulgar enterprise to take it away from them I 1 this vulgar enterprise Is afoot today snatching liberty right and left and tossing it into a totalitarian limbo of the things mankind really loves loves but does not always cherish except in memory one might paraphrase an an lent proverb A fool and bis his liberty are soon parted folly is not in curable it can be exchanged tor for wisdom perhaps some of the realists who scorn such abstract subjects as political science and history would do well to encourage study of our liberty how we cane ca ne by it and why it is worth keeping |