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Show THE BULLETIN Sheer Rubber Coat May Replace Paper as Wrapper for Soap New Covering Would Be Water and Weather Proof QScIruc iurvie. As the political Washington. campaign waxes warmer, it comes painfully mud Slinging evident that the Ahead fight in 1936 for the suffrage of the people is going to be very dirty. It is going to be bitter and there is no way now apparent that such a characteristic can be avoided. I do not believe that either Govt ernor Landon, the Republican candidate, or President Roosevelt, as a Democrat, seeking can prevent the hurling of invectives that are going to be very close to Naturally the President of the United States seldom makes a speech and Governor Landon personally is a man who believes in discussing Issues rather than individuals, but the intentions or the desires of these two candidates cannot control the bitterness that is, to my mind, certain to be found in this campaign in a large measure. As typical of the sort of thing to which 1 have referred is the recent speech of Secretary Ickes who, in a national radio broadcast, became in his attack on quite Governor Landon. Mr. Ickes is not known for his composure anyway and when he gets heated up on any subject he is likely to be guilty of remarks that are not becoming to an official of our government or any - mud-slingin- g. mud-slingi- mild-manner- other. I have not the slightest doubt that before the campaign has proceeded much further there will be similar speeches attacking Mr. Roosevelt personally and that, while Governor Landon may not approve, there will be unworthy charges hurled at the President. Mr. Ickes skated pretty close to the line in his attack on Governor Landon by various adroit phrases which were designed to create the impression that the Republican candidate was either ignorant or dishonest. I do not know Governor Landon personally but I can offer this thought: No man is going to be nominated by any political party in a national convention, nominated 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 reaction against the Ickes speech in another way. John May Cause Hamilton, the Re- Showdown publican national chairman, on his recent organization tour of the western states, propounded the inquiry that seeks to identify the economic royalists" about which President Roosevelt spoke several weeks agx 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 As tor 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 dance program the nation-wid- e 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, are convinced that he never would G-M- en long-tim- press-agent- ed n. G-m- The board of governors of the Federal Reserve system took an ac- -. tion recently that . Action probably is quite mystifying to the average person. They ordered all of the banks of 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 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 Mystifies flcrvli. Find Ivory Apollo in 300 Fragments Down Athens Well have agreed to that sort of attack, had he been alive and serving as the Presidents closest political advisor as he did for a quarter of a century. There is a situation in the federal government that threatens to be quite nasty. I Probe refer to the row that has devel oped between the Department of Justice bureau of and the investigation (the Treasurys secret service corps. It is all very much under cover, quite secret, but the row has come to the surface sufficiently to result in e a demotion of two members of the secret service. J. Edgar Hoover has been well as chief of the Joseph E. Murphy has had almost no' advertising as assistant chief of the Treasury secret service in which he has served for more than a quarter of a century. Mr. Murphy and one of his subjrdinates have been reduced in rank, their record stained for life. The two departments have kept the facts well covered up. It seems that something was going on among the that the Treasury secret service thought they ought to know about. They conducted their own inquiry, their own investigation into the other staff of investigators. That is as much as has been made public except Secretary Morgenthaus announcement of the demotion order. I have known each of these men equally twenty years. Each is entitled to the utmost respect. But each operates along an entirely different line Hoover with some wilt ingness for publicity; Murphy with an absolute policy of never letting his name get into the papers. It is unfortunate that Joe Murphy was the goat. WSC Statue Believed Work of Great Praxiteles PRINCETON, N.J. An ivory statuette of Apollo by a very great Athenian sculptor, possibly Praxiteles himself, is an outstanding discovery of this year's archeological digging by Americans at Athens, just announced. The statuette, which was found in 300 pieces in the depths of a well in Athens, has been successfully put together again, says Dr. T. Leslie Shear, field director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, who has just returned to the United States. When several experts failed at the delicate task of restoring the problem piece, Mrs. Shear, wife of the director, tried, and with help from the school staff she completed it in two weeks.' The ivory was fitted over a mass of beeswax for foundation. Figure Almost Complete. Lacking only a finger, a toe, and a few tiny sections of the body, young Apollo is shown standing with left hand extended to grasp a bow, and his right hand resting above his head. The figure was made originally from a single piece of ivory, except for the left hand. The statuette was found during excavation of 27 wells located when the expedition scraped the rocky hill on which the famous Theseum, or Temple of Hephaestus, Btood. This most perfectly preserved of all Greek temples is near the Agora, or market place, where the expedition has been making important discoveries since 1931. On the side of this Theseum hill looking toward the Agora, the dig ging revealed ancient landscape gardening plans. Two rows of holes were found paralleling the temples columns. The holes once contained flower pots, judging by their shape, and the pots were quite modern in style. Dr. Shear plans to beautify the ancient Athenian market place when the long task of exploring its buried contents is nearer completion. It will be, he says, made into a real garden spot." ! jig-sa- w Giant Star Camera Will Photograph Entire Milky Way WYNNEWOOD, PA. A two one-ha-lf ton battery of three-sta- r cameras, the largest using plates two feet wide, has just been placed in operation at the private observatory of Dr. Gustavus Wynne Cook, located here. Largest camera battery of its act." In the instance I have just re- kind in the world, Dr. Cook will use ported, the change in the reserve it to make a series of photographs requirements probably will have no of the entire Milky Way. After serious reaction on us as individu- photographing all the Milky Way als. It probably will not hurt the area that is within reach from 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 I 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. 0 K'Miurn Niiwwr Lnian. and CAKES wraps a thin, two to of an inch thick, waterproof coating of rubber. if a method of coating cakes with rubber for which a patent has been granted in Washington to J. P. Kane of New York city, should go into commercial use. Taking the place of the conventional paper wrappers, the sheer rubber coating is claimed to keep the soap water- - and weather-prooTo unwrap" such a cake of soap, the rubber coating is simply stripped off by tugging at a little tab on the side. The rubber wrappers could be colored any desired hue. Overcomes Defects. According to the inventor, many attempts have been made to turn out rubber wrapped cakes of soap commercially, but with no success. The rubber coating would not stick to the cake properly. Cakes of soap so coated would stick together and the rubber would "bleed" or run into the soap and discolor it. By his novel method, however, he claims these defects are overcome. Soap Cakes Sprayed. The cakes of soap are sprayed with or dipped into an aqueous solution containing rubber, sulphur, aczinc oxide and an ultra-rapi- d celerator. Coated with this solution, cakes then go into a drying chamber, and finally into a vulcanizing chamber. Because of the d accelerator, vulcanization takes place quickly and at low temperatures so that the cake of soap is unaffected. In this manner," claims the inventor, an adherent rubber coating is formed over the cake of soap which snugly fits every indentation and contour so that trade-marand designs impressed in the soap appear very clearly and present an attractive five rrun of soap may step out f. ultra-rapi- The Skulls and the Altar By FLOYD GIBBONS be it's a yarn from old Ireland w'e're havin' today, an' it'll ANJack of it. It hapBoyd of New York city, that's pened in November, 1916, long before Jack was ever afther 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 bom there. Anyway, aha keeps things humming In that neck of the woods. It's a rare Irishman that can go through a day without ten-da- having something happen to him. At a table on the other side at the room were two men. They looked like prosperous farmers landed gentry they call them over there on the other side and they had stopped talking d couple of times to stare at Jack. Jack didn't know either (me 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 Fat. ThU one was John. He sat down and asked Jack if hed 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 Fat looked like a couple ef old s porta but Just the same, ten pounda ia a lot of money in Ireland. Jack said hed make no answer until he knew what he had to do to earn the money. Then sporty old John unfolded aa fantastic a set of conditions as ever he bad heard In his life. Two miles up the river, John said, there is an old deserted abbey, undermined with eaves. 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 Cromwell's time the abbey has been abandoned, and now it la used as a burial place. 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 o'clock, get one of those skulls and bring It here to me tomorrow. That's all ks Sponges From Wootl Are Discovery of French Inventors WASHINGTON. Sponges from wood, created from the same base out of which artificial silk is made, are described in a patent granted here to L. P. G. Vautier and R. Fays, French inventors. In preparing their sponges, the inventors steep wood pulp in strong caustic soda, then treat it with the chemical, carbon disulphide. The resulting mass is now dissolved in caustic soda, forming a thick molassea-liksyrup called viscose. It is from viscose that most rayon is made today. Going Nature One Beter. Not concerned with rayon, but with making artificial sponges, the inventors mix the viscose with a material. This may be sugar, paraffin, fat, or preferably a crystallized salt, called sodium sulfate decahydrate. The resulting paste is cast in blocks in the shape of sponges. The blocks are placed in molds and sptinkled with the crystals of the salt. This sprinkling is a very important part of the invention since it makes for better porosity. After being so coveret, the blocks of viscose in their moldr are next placed in a chamber into which steam or hot air is admitted. This coagulates the viscose mass, and melts the salt, leaving myriads of pores. After washing and bleaching, one has an artificial sponge which acts like the real thing. It sops up liquids copiously. e Twe Pals Yellow Lights Were Dancing About the Altar. youve got to do, John said and then ha looked sort of queerly at Jack as he added, Thera art no keepers or watchmen, and nobody will know what has happened but the Dead. But the Dead! Jack didnt like the way he amid But tea pounds was a lot of money. It would buy him many a pack of fags many a bottle of oognao when he got hack to the front Ha looked John straight In the eye. Are you on the level?" ha asked. I am," said John. "All right," said Jack, "Ill do it" That night Jack took his service revolver and started for the abbey. He reached It about quarter of one. At one oclock sharp ha swung aside the rusty old gate and made his way through dank, dark to the room below the tower. pwfw Weird Lights Flash in the Abandoned Tomb. It was spooky in there with the moonlight showing through the pore-formi- pore-formi- cracks and casting weird shadows on the gray stone walla. For the first time in his life he found himself wondering if maybe there wasn't soma truth in ghost stories. He was walking toward the altar, when suddenly he saw something that froie him stiff in his tracks. Two pale yellow lights, about the alia 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, and I almost dropped my gun. Trembling like a leaf I sat down an a grave and watched those lights dance. Then I coughed, and In 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. Thera was only one light playing about now. The other was on his face. Sepulchral Voice Warns Intruder Away. He raised his gun, rested it on his left forearm and took careful aim at the beam that was shining in his eyes. Ha pulled tha trigger twjpe. Thera were two sharp cracks a terrible clatter of broken glass a loud, reverberating echa He thought; Now is my time, and bent to pick up one of the skulls. Suddenly a hollow voles THAT ALONE. IT DOESNT BELONG TO YOU1 Far an instant. Jack began te tremble again. He put down the skull and picked up another. LEAVE THAT ALONE," the voice repeated. IT DOESNT BELONG TO YOU!" He pMtwl up three more. Each time that warning voice. But by this time, says Jack. "I waa getting mad. I shouted out. To hell with you, whoever you are. They dont belong to you either And with that X picked up the sixth skull and walked toward tha 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 wouldn't have believed it Mny. Two J UuT wy home ha pinched himself to aea if 00 1 he was dreaming. But tha next day when ha went with tha skull to the pub, there were John and Pat. Johns right hand waa In a age, and ha grinned and tossed Jack a ten pound note. "Fat and I had a hundred pound bet," he said, that no man would take s skull from that altar. When you took' us wi both hid la tha abbey. We had two mirrors that reflected the moonlight and thats what made those dancing beams. But I didnt figure on your loa. You drilled me right through the palm of tha hand. Anyhow, you won Good-bhundred me a pounds. son, and good luck to you." here, he expects to move the equipment to South America or South Africa, so that regions of the sky which never rise in the Philadelphia area can be recorded. Takes Huge Pictures. The three cameras take pictures on plates 20 by 24 inches, 14 by 17 inches and 8 by 10 inches. They are equipped with lenses, 6t4, 5 and 4 inches in diameter, of a type invented by Dr. Frank E. Ross, of the University of Chicago's Yerkes 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 WASIIIXGTON.' ning of the electric motor which turns it once daily from east to new fashion of black clothing for, 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 don't don a black dress and go Be Early Sign of Cancer out in the sun if you want maximum comfort. Rough black surNEW YORK. Persistent faces are the best absorbers of hoarseness calls for careful exam- heat known to science. Smooth, bright surfaces reflect or 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 wearHe calls hoarseness ing. Medicine. -- WHO How to Test Colors. the herald symptom" of cancer a here believe is If dont it, you of the larynx and points out that Congress Debate Perilous laboratory test you can easily try it is also the symptom of 49 other for Anti new two Take slavery days were often bright yourself. conditions, none of them trivial. tin cans with covers and tear off perilous ones In the halls of conCancer of the larynx gives its the labels. Fill both with cold wa- gress. Once, as Owen Lovcjiy of speech he warning sign earlier and remains ter and set them out in the sun, Illinois was delivering localized longer than cancer any- but first rub lamp black on one of unconsciously kept advancing to the where else in the body, and early them. Later take the temperature front as he spoke, until a Southern diagnosis and treatment offer a in the two cans. The water in the representative put a band on his better chance for recovery than in blackened can will be much warm- shoulder and growled. Go back to your own sldel" Immediately the other cancers. In the early stage er than that in the shiny one. this condition can be relieved by an Another warning about summer passageway was full of members, operation which docs not deprive clothing from scientists. It is not most of them armed, the click the patient of his voice or necessi- the fabric that is loosely woven of Weapons was heard and they tate the use of an artificial voice with wide air spaces between fibers fpere all within the bounds of armed Aouflicl box. that Is the coolest. pore-formi- four-inc- said-"LEAV- E J. n y, -- BwvIm. Menrning Doves The young of the mourning dove are helpless when batched and require constant care from their parents for the two weeks they remain on the nest They are fed by regurgitation on pigeon milk. Solid food, such as seeds and insects, are gradually substituted until by the time the young are ready to leave the nest, they are fed almost entirely on seeds. Mourning doves art considered among tha most desirable of birds for their habits of feeding on weed seeds. |