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Show THE BULLETIN Sheer Rubber Coal May Replace Paper as Wrapper for Soap New Covering WouM Be Water and Weather Proof As n) mud-slingin- long-tim- mild-manner- n. I jig-sa- G-m- en in a national convention, nominated They ordered all by acclamation, unless his record is pretty clear. For Mr. Ickes to say, therefore, in effect, that Governor Landon had sold out to "Wall Street" was not the sort of campaign discussion likely to produce confidence among all the people in their government It is comparable, in my opinion, to a charge that the President of the United States, who advertises himself continually as a friend of the common man, was guilty of increasing his own personal fortune through presidential acts and every one knows this is not true. But to get back to the theme song of the Ickes' speech, it seems to me that the tragedy of his radio pronouncement lies in the fact throughout his discussion he was preaching class hatred. Every one knows, of course, attacks on "Wall Street" are very common in any The demapolitical campaign. gogues use it every hour of every day everywhere they can find any one to listen to them. It is ridiculous, but it has happened for a good many years. So when Mr. Ickes made the charge that Governor Landon was either unwittingly or knowingly leading a rich mans fight" against President Roosevelt he was descending to a rather low level of campaigning. I have seen indications of a re- action against the Ickes speech in another way. John May Cavut Hamilton, the publican national chairman, on his recent organization tour of the western states, propounded the inquiry that seeks to identify the "econom- ic royalists" about which President Roosevelt spoke several weeks ag3. If the Roosevelt campaigners continue this class hatred propaganda, I rather suspect from what Mr. Hamilton said in his speeches there will be a perfect barrage of demands to know the names of these economic royalists. It may not seem important; indeed, it seems like it probably is inconsequential, but if the Republicans let down a barrage on the President of the United States, he is likely to be put in a bad corner. Without attempting to forecast what the Republican opposition is likely to say, I can recall as an observer close to the wheels of government during the Roosevelt regime that Mr. Roosevelt frequently was a guest on the Astor yacht and that one of his chief advisors for many months was the multimillionaire, Bernard M. Baruch. It seems also that a very rich man, Henry L. Doherty, was in charge of the nation-wid- e dance program held on the Presidents birthday and Mr. Doherty, be .t said, is head of one of the great utility chains. These are just samples. It may be good politics for the President to encourage these attacks without approving them, but those of us who knew the late Louis McHenry Howe, convinced that he never would are ten-da- born there. Anyway, she keeps things humming In that neck of the woods. Its a rgre Irishman that can go through a day without having something happen to him. At a table on the other side of the room were two men. They looked like prosperous farmers landed gentry they call them oyer there on the other side and they had stopped talking a 'couple of times to stare at Jack. Jack didn't know either one of them. He was visiting some friends and had never been in the neighborhood before. But after a while one of the men came walking over to his table. John and Pat Were a Couple of Old Sports. The mens names. Jack learned later, were John and Pat This one was John. He sat down and asked Jack if he'd just come from France. Jack said he had. And the next remark sort of took Jack by surprise. How would you like to earn ten pounds?" John asked him. John and Pat looked like a couple of old sports but Just the same, ten pounds is a lot of money In Ireland. Jaick said hed make do answer until he knew what he had to do to earn the money. Then sporty old John unfolded as fantastic a set of conditions as ever he had heard in his life. Two miles up the river, John said,, there is an old deserted abbey, undermined with caVes. There's a tower in the 'middle of it, about a hundred feet high. At the bottom of that tower is a room with an altar in it The good monks used to pray there, but since Cromwells time the abbey has been abandoned, and now it is used as a burial place. w Sentinels of the Ruined Abbey Were the Dead. At the foot of that altar there are six human skulls. I want to know if you have the courage to go there tonight at one oclock, get one of those skulls and bring it here to me tomorrow. Thats all 91 of the banks of Twa Pale Yellow Lights Were Dancing About the Altar. youve got to do, John said and then he looked sort of queerly at Jack as he' added, "There are no keepers or watchmen, and nobody will know what has happened but the Dead." But the Dead! "Jack didnt like the way he said that. But ten pounds was a let of money. It would buy him many a pack of fags many a bottle of eognao-whhe get back to the front. He looked John straight la the eye. Are yoa oa the level?" ho asked. I am. said John. "All right, said Jack, I'll do It." That night Jack took his service revolver and started for the abbey. He reached it about quarter of one. At one o'clock sharp he swung aside the rusty old gate and made his way through dank, dark passages to the room below the tower. Weird Lights Flash in the Abandoned Tomb, It was spooky in there with the moonlight showing through the cracks and casting weird shadows on the gray stone walls. For the first time in his life he found himself wondering if maybe there wasnt some truth in ghost stories. He was walking toward the altar, when suddenly he saw something that frose him still la his tracks. Two pale yellow lights, about the site of plates were dancing about the altar. "My hair stood up, he says, "and my courage ran out of me ike water out of a bottle. A bat flicked my face, aad I almost dropped my gun. Trembliag like a leaf I sat down mi a grave aad watched those lights dance. Thea I coughed, and la two seconds I heard that same cough In another part of the abbey, Jack walked firmly toward the altar. He wasnt afraid of anything in the world now. There was only one light playing about now. The . ea one-ha- pore-formin- act. In the instance I have just reported, the change in the reserve requirements probably will have no serious reaction on us as individuals. It probably will not hurt the LalMh havin today, an itll be of it. It hapever afther was before in Jack November, 1916, long pened leave from y cornin to this country, and when he was on a the trenches of France an having a bit of a dhrink at a pub in the village of Moyne. In any other country, Jack might have finished his drink and gone his way. But theres something about the ould sod that makes it a favorite roosting place for Old Lady Adventure. Maybe the gal was it's a yarn from old Ireland were ANJack Boyd of New York city, thats trade-mark- much concerned. But with the principle upon which this action is taken I think every one with a bank account, however small, ought to be vitally interested. They ought to be interested for the very simple reason that this action illustrates better than any words I can write how far the centralization of control of the banking structure has gone. This action was taken under the National Banking act of 1935, a statute that has been frequently criticised as a "political banking C Wralarn By FLOYD GIBBONS ultra-rapi- the country which are members of the Federal Reserve system to keep a deposit reserve with the Federal Reserve banks 15 per cent greater than ever has been required before. With the technical phases of reserve requirements and the mechanical operation of this particular order, I think we need not be very banks because few banks in the country have had calls for loans in any quantity since business is at such a low level. But the point is that under this law, the Federal Reserve board of governors can alter banking conditions over night. It can issue new rules and regulations that are wholly impossible of understanding by the average individual, but which are almost riotous in their effect upon the management of individual banks throughout the country. To state this proposition in another way, may I describe it in the terms of a private business enterprise. If a storekeeper in a small town were subjected to regulation from Washington and the regulatory power in the federal government had such discretionary authority as the Federal Reserve board of governors, could that storekeeper ever feel that he was managing his own business? I think not. Then, in the case of the Federal Reserve board of governors, it must be added that the president of the board is Marri-ne- r S. Eccles who is known far and wide for his radical ideas about banking. It can be further said that Mr. Eccles has the ear of President Roosevelt. This has been criticised many times of course where opponents of the Roosevelt banking policies have contended that the banks can be utilized in any way the administration desires to use them. As an illustration of this, the federal government has been borrowing billions. Most banks are chock full of government securities. While I do not say it has happened, yet because T do not believe it has happened yet, nevertheless there is a possibility that government borrowings can be forced on the banks under such conditions. That is the course of action that has ruined the currency in half a dozen European nations. The Skulls and the Altar f. G-M- en press-agente- CAKES Down Athens Well campaign waxes warmer, it be mud-slingi- WXU Find Ivory Apollo in Fragments the political have agreed to that sort of attack, had he been alive and serving as comes painfully the Presidents closest political adMad Stinging evident that the visor as he did for a quarter of a fight in 1936 for century. Ahead the suffrage of the There is a situation in the fedpeople is going to be very dirty. It is going to be bitter and there is eral government that threatens to be quite nasty. I no way now apparent that such a Probe refer to the row characteristic can be avoided. that has devel I do not believe that either Governor Landon, the Republican canoped between the of Justice bureau of or President Roosevelt, Department didate, and the as a Democrat, investigation (the seeking can prevent the hurling of invec- Treasurys secret service corps. It tives that are going to be very is all very much under cover, quite close to Naturally the secret, but the row has come to President of the United States sel- the surface sufficiently to result in e memdom makes a speech a demotion of two and Governor Landon personally is bers of the secret service. J. Edgar Hoover has been well a man who believes d as chief of the in discussing issues rather than individuals, but the intentions or the Joseph E. Murphy has had almost desires of these two candidates can- no advertising as assistant chief of not control the bitterness that is, to the Treasury secret service in he has served for more than my mind, certain to be found in this which of a century. Mr. Mura quarter in a measure. large campaign of his subordinates one and As typical of the sort of thing to phy which I have referred is the recent have been reduced in rank, their stained for life. speech of Secretary Ickes who, in record The two departments have kept a national radio broadcast, became in his attack on the facts well covered up. It seems quite Governor Landon. Mr. Ickes is not that something was going on among that the Treasury secret known for his composure anyway the and when he gets heated up on any service thought they ought to know conducted their own subject he is likely to be guilty of about. They own their investigation into inquiry, remarks that are not becoming to an official of our government or any the other staff of investigators. That is as much as has been made public other. ' except Secretary Morgenthaus anI have not the slightest doubt that nouncement of the demotion order. before the campaign has proceeded much further there will be similar I have known each of these ismen entwenty years. Each speeches attacking Mr. Roosevelt equally But utmost to the titled respect. personally and that, while Governor each operates along an entirely difLandon may not approve, there will Hoover with some willbe unworthy charges hurled at the ferent line for publicity; Murphy with ingness President. absolute an policy of never letting Mr. Ickes skated pretty close to into the papers. It name his get the line in his attack on Governor Landon by various adroit phrases is unfortunate that Joe Murphy was which were designed to create the the goat. impression that the Republican canThe' board of governors of the didate was either ignorant or dis- Federal Reserve system took an achonest. I do not know Governor tion recently that Landon personally but I can ofTer Action probably is quite this thought: No man i3 going to to the mystifying MyttiRet nominated be by any political party average person. Washington. Survlt-a- . of soap may step out wraps a thin, two to of an inch ive thick, waterproof coating of rub-c- r. 300 if a method of coating cakes with rubber for which a patent las been granted in Washington to J. P. Kane of New York city, Statue Believed Work should go into commercial use. Taking the place of the convenof Great Praxiteles tional paper wrappers, the sheer rubber coating is claimed to keep PRINCETON. N.J. An ivory the soap water- - and weather-proosuch a cake of To unwrap statuette of Apollo by a very great the rubber coating is simply Athenian sculptor, possibly Prax- soap, off by tugging at a little stripped iteles himself, is an outstanding tab on the side. The rubber wrapdiscovery of this year's archeo- pers could be colored any desired logical digging by Americans at hue. Overcomes Defects. Athens, just announced. to the inventor, many in found According was which The statuette, turn 300 pieces in the depths of a well attempts have been made to in Athens, has been successfully out rubber wrapped cakes of soap but with no success. put together again, says Dr. T. commercially, The rubber coating would not Leslie Shear, field director of the American School of Classical Stud-- ! stick to the cake properly. Cakes toies at Athens, who has just re- of soap so coated would stick gether and the rubber would turned to the United States. bleed or run into the soap and When several experts failed at his novel method, the delicate task of restoring the discolor it. By these defects claims he however, Mrs. Shear, problem piece, wife of the director, tried, and with are overcome. Soap Cakes Sprayed. help from the school staff she comThe cakes of soap are sprayed pleted it in two weeks. The ivory was fitted over a mass of beeswax with or dipped into an aqueous solution containing rubber, sulphur,' j for foundation. ac- - j zinc oxide and an "ultra-rapi- d Figure Almost Complete. and solua this Coated a toe, celerator. with only finger, Lacking a few tiny sections of the body, tion, cakes then go into a drying young Apollo is shown standing chamber, and finally into a vulwith left hand extended to grasp a canizing chamber. Because of the d accelerator, vulcanizabow, and his right hand resting above his head, The figure was tion takes place quickly and at low made originally from a single piece temperatures so that the cake of of ivory, except for the left hand. soap is unaffected. In this manner, claims the inThe statuette was found during excavation' of 27 wells located when ventor, an adherent rubber coatthe expedition scraped the rocky ing is formed over the cake of hill on which the famous Theseum, soap which snugly fits every inor Temple of Hephaestus, stood. dentation and contour so that s and designs impressed This most perfectly preserved of all Greek temples is near the in the soap appear very clearly Agora, or market place, where the and present an attractive pack-expedition has been making impor- age. tant discoveries since 1931. On the side of this Theseum hill From Wood looking toward the Agora, the dig- Sponges re Discovery of ging revealed ancient landscape gardening plans. Two rows of holes were found paralleling the temples French Inventors columns. The holes once contained flower pots, judging by their shape, WASHINGTON. Sponges and the pots were quite modern in from wood, created from the same style. Dr. Shear plans to beautify the base out of which artificial silk is ancient Athenian market place made, are described in a patent when the long task of exploring its here to L. P. G. Vautier buried contents is nearer comple- granted R. and Fays, French inventors. tion. It will be, he says, made In their sponges, the preparing into "a real garden spot." inventors steep wood pulp in strong caustic soda, then treat it with the Giant Star Camera chemical, carbon disulphide. The resulting mass is now disWill Photograph solved in caustic soda, forming a ' Entire Milky Way thick molasses-lik- e syrup called viscose. It is from viscose that WYNNEWOOD, PA.- -A iwo most rayon is made today. lf Going Nature One Beter. and ton battery of three-sta-r Not concerned with rayon, but cameras, the largest using with making artificial sponges, the plates two feet wide, has just been inventors mix the viscose with a placed in operation at the pri material. This may vate observatory of Dr. Gustavus be sugar, paraffin, fat, or preferably a crystallized salt, called soWynne Cook, located here. sulfate decahydrate. The re dium of its camera Largest battery kind in the world. Dr. Cook will use suiting paste is cast in blocks in it fo make a series of photographs the shape of sponges. The blocks of the entire Milky Way. After are placed in molds and spiinkled photographing all the Milky Way with the crystals of the salt. area that is within reach from This sprinkling is a very imporhere, he expects to move the equipment to South America or South tant part of the invention since it Africa, so that regions of the sky makes for better porosity. After being so coverec, the which never rise in the Philadelof viscose in their moldr are blocks recorded. can be area phia next placed in a chamber into Takes Huge Pictures. The three cameras take pictures which steam or hot air is admitted. on plates 20 by 24 inches, 14 by 17 This coagulates the viscose mass, salt, inches and 8 by 10 inches. They and melts the are equipped with lenses, 6tt, 5 leaving myriads of pores. After and 4 inches in diameter, of a type washing and bleaching, one has an invented by Dr. Frank E. Ross, of artificial sponge which acts like the the University of Chicagos Yerkes real thing. It sops up liquids copiously. observatory. There is a guiding telescope with h lens by means of which Science Warns Against the photographer can keep the cameras accurately pointed at a Summer Vogue for Black selected part of the sky. He can also correct any errors in the runThe smart WASHINGTON. ning of the electric motor which new fashion of black for clothing turns it once daily from east to west to compensate for the earth's summer wear has no support rotation. from the scientists who understand problems of heat. It might do for evening wear, Chronic Hoarseness May but dont don a black dress and go Be Early Sign of Cancer out in the sun if you want maximum comfort. Rough black surY K R O . Persistent faces are the best absorbers of NpW hoarseness calls for careful exam- heat known to science. reflect or Smooth, bright surfaces ination by a trained throat specialturn away the heat. Science thereist, warns Dr. Leo Schwartz in fore does give support to these new the current issue of Preventive bright helmets the boys are wearMedicine. lie calls hoarseness ing. flow to Test Colors. the herald symptom" of cancer don't believe it, here is a If you of the larynx and points out that laboratory test you can easily try it is also the symptom of 49 other for yourself. Take two bright new tin cans with covers and tear off conditions, none of them trivial of the larynx gives its the labels. Fill both with cold waCancer warning sign earlier and remains ter and set them out in ontheonesun, of localized longer than cancer any- but first rub lamp black where else in the body, and early them. Later take the temperature in the two cans. The water in the diagnosis and treatment offer better chance for recovery than in blackened can will be much warmother cancers. In the early stage er than that in the shiny one. Another warning about summer this condition can be relieved by an is not operation which does not deprive clothing from scientists. It woven the patient of his voice or necessi- the fabric that is loosely tate the use of an artificial voice with wide air spaces between fibers that is the coolest. box. Sclenca gvrvica g pore-formin- g other was on his face. pore-formi- ! j Sepulchral Voice Warns Intruder Away. raised his gun, rested it on his left forearm and took careful aim at the beam that was shining in his eyes. He pulled the trigger twice. There were two sharp cracks a terrible clatter of broken glass a loud, reverberating echo. He thought, "Now is my time, and bent to pick up one of the skulls. Suddenly a hollow voice said: "LEAVE THAT ALONE. IT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU I For aa Instant, Jack begaa to tremble again. He put down the skull and picked up another. "LEAVE THAT ALONE, the voice repeated. "IT DOESNT BELONG TO YOU! He picked np three more. Each time that warning voice. But by this time, says Jack, "I was getting mad. Z shouted out. To hell with you, whoever you are. They dont belong to you Cither. And with that I picked up the sixth skull and walked toward the gate, firing right and left from my revolver till It was empty. It Was Just a Merry Prank of John and Pat If the story had ended there. Jack wouldnt have believed it self. Two or three times on the way home he pinched Mm if to see if he was dreaming. But the next day when he went with the to the pub, there were John and Pat Johns right was in a bnd-- ! age, and he grinned and tossed Jack a ten pound note. "Fat and I had a hundred pound bet, he said, "that no would toko a skull from that altar. When yon took us np we both hid in the abbey1. "We had two mirrors that reflected the moonlight; and thats what made those dancing beams. But I didnt figure on your shooting, son. You drilled me right through the palm of the hand. Anyhow, you won me a hundred pounds. Good-by- , son, anl good luck to you. He four-inc- l , ; Congress Debate Perilous Mourning Doves Anti slavery days were often The young of the mourning di perilous ones in the balls of con- are helpless when hatched and gress. Once, as Owen Lovcjty of quire constant care from their p Illinois was delivering a speech he ents for the two weeks they unconsciously kept advancing to the main on the nest They are front as he spoke, until a Southern by regurgitation on pigeon mill representative put a hand on his Solid food, such as seeds and shoulder and growled, Go back to sects, are gradually substituted Immediately the til by the time the young are rei your own side! passageway was full of members, to leave the nest they are fed most of them armed, the click most entirely on seeds. Mourn of weapons was heard and they doves are considered among Jpere all within the bounds of armed most desirable of birds for tfa Conflict habits of feeding on weed seeds. -- |
