Show in a a U V on disturbed about world I 1 1 sun spots ts may hold clue L ii A I 1 B by y I 1 A news analyst and commentator 1 1 U washington if you were disturbed over the ma mayhem ahem and misunderstandings rampant in ili the month of july relax there may be a scientific explanation sun spots I 1 for the first time in 11 years there is a maximum number I 1 of ultra violet rays raya about released by eruptions on the of the sun rays which which may cause tempers to flare emotions to get PIT off I 1 balance glands to be affected so ao that abnormal behaviour results this I 1 fantasy medical science has revealed the effects of over exposure to the ultraviolet ultra violet ray sun spots may have been cespon I 1 sible ible tor for the disturbances you an and I 1 read about on just jus one day last las 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 july on that da day I 1 I 1 X in haiti a publisher ma w a a assassinated by an otherwise I 1 gentle young poet poel I 1 because the bard 5 I 1 had lost some kind ot of a scholarship a I 1 33 year old did painter who lived near the otherwise pleasant I 1 and peaceful new 0 O england home of house speaker joe martin bt at attleboro Att leboro i Bank haire mass did a dance when he ha heard his wife was dead I 1 it seems eams he hail had shot her in we tho I 1 head here in washington a 22 I 1 year old husband knocked his wife down tried to stab her with a I 1 butcher knife attacked anAn an innocent passerby and started a ast fight with a policeman a vitamin plant blew up a prisoner became 18 of benzedrine poisoning a tanker in chicago caught alro fire jimmy roosevelt elt feuded with the other members I 1 of the california delegation and the k Bus russians kicked up the usual fuss you soa and I 1 probably had our car own troubles all perhaps due to nothing but the rash on old I 1 sols physiognomy scientists will tell you that sun spots were known by thi the chinese before the telescope made thorn them a comparatively familiar subject of astronomical concern they are not uniform ineize in size or thapa and sometimes appear singly sometimes in groups A single s spot pot may be large enough to take in our whole planet I 1 with room to spare groups extend i ov over er areas that m may ay include millions of aqua r miles sun spots noV appear to haye 0 definite duration As a rule they athey last but bu a short time some sometimes times not more than a day but one to is recorded ln in 1840 1940 40 41 as having bhavini acon con 1 for 18 months the number of sun bun spots varies greatly in a periodicity that Is not a strictly ly regular but that reaches an avert age aga of slightly over 11 years 4 and last month dr roy boy mar I 1 I 1 shall ball f director of I 1 um in philadelphia eh echoed an earlier suggestion made liere in n washington ito ho said that sun bun I 1 I 1 spots fould could have a definite effert on the behaviour of people ard he reminded us that sun un spots spats reached their last maximum I 1 frequency be before lore july 1918 1948 in 1937 when hitler started his blitz I 1 I 1 was several years ago that no less an institution than the conservative serva tive lve and careful smithsonian I 1 the capitals da great scientific organ izaal n speculated on the possibility I 1 that ahk might be a relations relationship filp between sun sim spots and war warp ns well 11 as aa sun ours spots and weather weather streets affects crops crops affect economic conditions sun spots which release ultra violet rays which affect emo eions might an official report to t I 1 suggested disturb 1 leaders adern le I 1 kt dwar war 0 the reasoning anyhow some may inay think it far ar fetched shakespeare Shike speare did when he ha said the I 1 fault diar dear brutus Is not in our stars but in ourselves 11 poets are frequently right but not perhaps immune to the violence of the violet ray witness the haitian poet who shot chot tile the publisher I 1 I 1 at any rate rAt ethe the smithsonian Smiths onlan listed considerable technical data showing thit that sun spot activity frequently had preceded wars some selent scientists isis say sunspots sun spots may haye aye good effects too resulting in I 1 heavier foliage better crops more rain sas well as their evil tendencies to disturb interpersonal relations I 1 not to io mention radio communications 1 11 I 1 however wever there is tittle little we can do about 14 it for or as far AS we i know the sun eun Is ili like a leopard lt cant for or wont change chance its spots 1 1 one it free book divot Is not wasted I 1 if U you are one of the lucky farm eis era who wrote your congressman promptly asking tor for a copy ol of the I 1 department of agriculture 1840 2040 I 1 year book you have a treat in tore etore for you the first copies al I 1 ready have come from rona the government printer but it will be some I 1 time before the bulk of the printing it ix ready tor for delivery abla bettes year topic Is 1 a live one GRASS it deals with the general subject abject of fd and there 41 e I 1 91 VV Is something in it for virtually every j farmer slid and if there ther e were enough books to go around could be utilized by everybody who raises a lawi i not to mention people who run ports or playgrounds or any other enclosure of greensward there is a growing interest in this subject one member of the de da apartment part ment of agriculture called it a big swing to grass on the purl i of farmers over most of the country not jut just as feed but for many purposes and functions one farmer near here for instance said to i friend of mine recently that he aa had quit growing corn tor for silage 0 o uses grass entirely in case you yon have forgotten you have a chance to get it a ie ael apartment parl part ment of agriculture year book because of a law passed t in abraham Lincol ns time congress every ye year J ates a sum of money tho iho det dei 4 M par part trIent ment prepares the book under the incumbent abent editorship t of alfred stefferud the govern ment printing omee office prints alna and delivers copies to members of congress they pass them around as far as they i go 0 o the ho law this volume Is probably one of the few free books which Is not wasted for it goes almost ex clu elusively to people who want it had find use it itin in this order or derd M far farmers mets 2 state agricultural colleges 3 other colleges for GI courses 4 some high schools laccy batet on I 1 shall give you an ida ideis a of the contents of tho current which deals comprehensively alvel the subject of grass d ge legumes and associated plants be ginning with the history A colonial days the place of 0 grass in ili building soil rind and feeding livestock specific information applying to 10 sections of the united states and pictures ures end and descriptions of a I 1 different grosses grasses and legumes I 1 6 guard your liberty know dates at least its almost impossible to believe that ani any american would not know the meaning ot of the approaching VJ V J day but will americans iia years from now remember that 60 september I 1 marked the abl elal end of the bloodiest bavin war in history I 1 perhaps this sounds absurd to you ou it it if you had read the of lone of a series of polls taken by the washington post just before july 4 the post interviewers asked a number of individual fourth of july Is almost here can you tell me why we celebrate W eighty five per cent cenk of till all persona pursuit asked had the tha right answer 1 twelve per cent had no idea wi I 1 the fourth Is 4 a holiday and 3 clr p cent thought it was the anniversary of Armis armistice ticie dayt day the end of the civil war emancipation of alio llio 0 ne negroes oes or some other event one on of those who had no idea at till all on 1114 the subject was credited with a 0 coli lege education I 1 asked what the day meant f to fo I 1 them 39 per c ent cent said paid 4 in barf various Us ways ya ys that thai I 1 4 mant 1 national ff fre dom to I 1 18 per ce cent nt if it spoiled personal freedom and ki berty in gen tie oral eral 11 per cent sold said it bhim mean but a holad how many of us who thata liberty freedom Is la our right know what freedom Is few unless they have lived in a country where one practices that quick up ap toa dooh to right and left before he dares comment its atsa a ow gesture ive seen it arid and I 1 shuddered I 1 have quoted W E Vo odward before in his new american history 11 he fie says I 1 liberty implies responsibility and the vast majoT majority ity of roan mon kind has always bl abed response billay worse than death so lit in all ages men have run around holding it out cut before tipeni hem as one holds A golden vessel offer ing IDS it to anyone who possesses enough vulgar enterprise to take it t ariy from them 1 1 JL this gat enterprise s today snatching liberty right a ami ll 11 4 left and tossing it into a total totalitarian itari a n limbo of 01 the things mankind tea loves loves but does not always cherish except in memory one might paraphrase an ancient pro proverb verbi A fool and his ilbert are soon parted folly is not lit in curable it con be exchanged tor for wisdom perhaps some ot of the realists who scorn sudi such abstract subjects as political science and history would do welt well to encourage study of our liberty liow how we bome by it and why it Is worth keeping I 1 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ufa tvr isit 1 it fi r 44 i i i |