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are affiliating with the "red front" arts ef America in our time. It is also quite possible that it will loom larger and be more powerfully felt half a century hence. 9b3m Six Days in Palestine The Once Over By H. PHILLIPS' TUESDAY, JAN 31, 1933 Pierre van Paasaeru OF TRANQUILLITY The Wailing Wall THE MAINSTAY "Jatan must he raaarded in the East." Statement by CU-il. I HE mainstays We start a little We ignore all or tranquillity are we war (on-two or three) Iff li mm If AT THE WAILING WALLi In the conduct of our fights, But it's done to stimulate tranquillity! II We're the very spirit of clTlllty, Even when weseem to show When we pounce npon a nation It Is just an Indication Of a tranquil disposition, don't you tee? All agresslveness is something we deplore We are little rays of sunshine, nothing moref Calling treaties scraps of paper We regard the proper caper; Terfect peace is what wwre always strlrlng lo When we run amuck in Asia you should know That it's done to keep the love of man aglow All the concentrated shelling Shows our tender hearts are swelling With affection for the victim, friend or foe.

All world Is full of nervousness today. And it needs Japan to drive its fear away; If we devastate a city It reflects a mood of pity For a world that's short of good, clean fun and play. VI Should we spring upon a neighbor In the nigh And proceed to pummel him with all our might. It's to notify the border We're promoting law and order, And are agents both of sweetness and of light VII When we swoop down on some other fellow's land And for all his goods and chattels make demand. It ia Just our way of sealing Little bonds of tender feeling And we hope the League will try to understand.

VIII If It happens that we like to thumb our nose At tbe diplomats through whom resentment flows, It's a gesture showing clearly That we love outsiders dearly And are out to rid the Orient of woes. (Copyrlrht. 1938.) JERUSALEM Bearded Jews wearing long 'caftans i of black and purple -were coming cat of the holes In the wall in the Old dity, white-haired patyiarchs bent double under the weight of years leaned on the shoulders of youngsters as they stumbled over the uneven cobblestone pavement of the alleys. Here and there shopkeepers were hastily putting up shutters and bars. It Friday.

The evening star had, appeared In tbe Judean sky. It was Sabbath. From all directions the Jews were coming. Out of the most unbelievable places human beings appeared. For the Old City is like a human rabbit-warren, a labyrinth of houses and dwellings superimposed, built crossways and in all ways; The synagogues were filling up.

But the main stream of worshipers seemed to be running to a point beyond the synagogues. Persian Jews the flowing robes of Cyrus. Jews from Buchara and Afghanistan, tall and almond-eyed. Jews from the Polish ghettoes. Jews from the depths of the Carpathian Mountains.

Yemenite Jews, undersized and trail, who have been the slaves of Arab overlords In- the Hedjah countries for nine centuries. Jews from Morocco and Algiers wearing tbe fez and swinging with the stride of Moorish desert chiefs. Kabbalists, whose, lean, haggard faces betray the mystic Inner fire and who believe that- the world's Ills and the anguish of our time are the birth-pangs of the Messiah. Chassidic Jews from Eastern Europe, God-intoxicated men, whose religion is pure joy. Sephardic Jews from Turkey and.

Spain with aristocratic gestures and faces that seem carved from fine old ivory. Askenazic rabonim and nielamdim. Bochurim from the Talmud-Torah schools, the Yeshivas and other institutions of Jewish learning. As they came around corners to join the stream they greeted. each other with the traditional salutation of Israel throughout the ages: "Shalom! (peace).

Through the maze of streets and alleys this, crowd of men poured to the Wailing Wall, the holiest shrine of the Jewish world. Tbe Wailing Wall Is nothing more Inspiring than a collection of huge square blocks of stone, piled disjointedly, along one side of an oblong little square. These stones are ttie last remnant of the Hebrew temple of antiquity, a part of the For the real temple stood on the terraced garden above. Tbe sharp edges on the lower layers of the stones have been smoothed and are covered with' a shiny polish Tomorrow; The Mrr Roosevelt Jbourht the Gen Putnam Inn at Brooklyn. Conn, the ancestral home of her mother's family, it was owned in 1T8T by her randf ather.

Col Daniel Tyler, a Revolutionary soldier. The house had been known tor many era as the Gen Putnam Inn. and later as Mortlake Manor. It had been manare4 as an inn by Miss Marian Thomson. At the time Mrs Rooie-veil eald.

the bourht the place for senti shock troops of Communism, whose numbers are carefully concealed by the German Communist directorate. Both held a joint demonstration 100,000 strong In Berlin on Sunday. Add to this situation the demand made by Hitler before taking the Chancellorship that he be "given a free hand to exterminate the Communists (of whom there are 6,000,000 today in Germany) and omens are clear enough. Germany is heading again toward civil war. The warning sent President Ton Hindenburg by the united trades unions on behalf of their 8,000,000 members, cautioning against any attempt to upset the Constitution is in point, as Is also the refusal of the Catholic Center party to have any truck with a Government Including von Papen and Hitler.

It were idle to indulge In predic tions as to what will happen during the next few weeks. Apparently unless Hitler attempts strong arm methods earlier the showdown will be delayed until February, when the Reichstag is to be convened. With the' Social Democrats, the Commun ists and the Center opposed, his Cabinet does not at present have the slightest chance of weathering a vote of confidence. When that bridge is reached Herr Hitler will have to make up his mind definitely whether to try more elec tions or to suspend the Constitution. In either case there is a ttorm ahead.

Uncle Dudley. WHAT THESE BOYS ARE LIKE WHEN parents born and reared on one continent move to another, where life moves in strange paths, they are naturally anxious on behalf of their children. Will the climate be unfriendly? Will queer customs prove subversive? Or can nature adjust to the one and good training counteract the other? Without budging an inch, our domes tic life has changed continents since the boyhood of men sow fathers. Then what about these boys? Whoever at tempts to answer that question needs to speak with modesty and caution. Mr A.

Alington, the headmaster Eton, does so with both. Limiting himself to that stratum of youth which he knows and knows well, he notes that the boy of today is aware that the world he lives in is insecure; is forced, as his parents seldom were, to take an Interest In public questions; detests the thought of another war; is full of questions where religion is concerned, though he is by no means irreligious; is bewildered by the complexity of the world he is flung into and by the mass of mental pabulum flung at him; but (so this English schoolmaster thinks, after an extended visit In the 'United States) the boy of today "is a wiser, better and more civilised being than he was when was myself at school. and his attitude toward life and Its problems is saner and sounder." Anyone who moves much amongst young men can hardly help being aware of a change in their mental climate from that ef 20 years ago. Much Is now questioned which used to go unchallenged. But, being more free, they are also more self-reliant.

Intimidation gets nowhere them. Reason gets farther than one might expect. Veto- is wasted breath. Idealism must pass a severe intelligence test. Taboo is derided.

The right to, know la coolly asserted and acted vpoa. And, all the while, man. liness, courage, fine feeling and noble conduct are going strong. A CREATOR AMONG SCHOLARS HE whs assigns himself a task no ene else has thought of, and sees it through, is in for a memorable career. Forty years ago drama, if taught at all, was a mere classroom exercise.

Scarcely did it occur to the pedagogue that plays were meant to be acted. But In Harvard College was a. young Instructor named George Fierco Baker who taught" pubito speaking. He It was who, finding drama a poor little sister Cinderella, made himself her Prince. It was uphill work.

His enemy was the unconscious Philistinism of three centuries' Puritan frown at stage plays. After a long struggle to get his courses la drama into the college curriculum, during which he continued as teacher of public speaking, he once marked incautiously to the late Pres Eliot that ha felt a trifle overworked. "Why not give up your courses in the drama?" suggested the president. Prof Baker preferred to go on over-working. His pupils have gone forth t9 all quarters of the land as professors of dramatic as play, wrights, as actors, as dramatio critics, as producers ef plays, as seenio artists and as directors ef theatres big and little.

If his retirement now im pends, few better merit the title "emer itus." Perhaps the number of playwrights he has "made" has been un duly stressed. Talent is born and makes Itself. What he has done is provide a workshop where talent can experiment. Hard is the path 'of the creator among scholars. The two live la differ ent worlds.

With scholars enthusiasm Is likely to be considered bad form; yet without enthusiasm a mas Is not likely to create much. He needs that fly-wheel to carry bis saw through the knots ef a difficult art-form. Prof Baker has not had an easy life. But his work is unquestionably one of the fiaJo( among the crsajjye fle Globe Man's telly Story A missionary Ltd delivered a lee-, toia relating Lis experiences in various parts of the He con-, eluded with an earnest appeal for funds to keep vp the good work, and added that even the children i would be welcome to (ire their mite. Wfcea the meeting was ever ks was pleased to see a boy pressing i forward to meet him.

He held out 1 kis hand to the boy and said: Tm glai to see you, my little man. I Ways take, a great interest in children. I suppose 'you would like to contribute to the cause." "WeU," replied the little boy, I "what I wanted to ask was whether I yes kare any foreign stamps to give away?" HITLER TAKES THE HEM WITH Adolph Hitler's accession to the Chancellorship of Germany the tempo of events political quickens, both -within Germany and beyond her frontiers in Europe. The trace engineered iy General Ton Schleicher, that the faction-torn Republic might strive for internal stability and recovery, is badly shattered. Something alarmingly like a free rein Is given the least trustworthy of conceivable combinations in German politics.

'And alarm is already echoing across the continent. This spectacular coup, in which on Schleicher has been replaced by the tarnished hero of the "Beer Cellar Putsch" of 1923, bears every evidence of an intrigue ominous alike for Germany's internal peace and for the survival of the Republic. If further testimony were needed, the fact that the trio of von Papen, on. Hugenberg and the Natl chief-tan have formed an alliance suffices. Tor Captain Ton Papen represents the most reactionary and hard-boiled section of German Junkerdom.

And Ton Hugenberg is the epitome of fanatical and irresponsible thought among the extreme Right wing of the German big business And Hitler himself is, of course, the. ex ponent of a Fascist doctrine aimed directly at the whole cause of Republicanism in the Reich. The Junkers that landed aristocracy east of Elbe, which cherishes an inherited loyalty to feudalism-turned against Ton Schleicher be cause (like his predecessor, Bruen-icg) he found It necessary to pro pose division of great landed es tates into small farms for the army cf the jobless. In thwarting this Rscject last week, the Junkers boldly advanced their objective: induced President von Hindenburg to forbid by decree any auction sales, tax sales or foreclosures on their estates many of which are bankrupt. to operate them themselves, they prefer to see 'them lie Idle rather than yield to rising tie mands of the unemployed for land.

The industrial group, which Ton Hugenburg represents, became Ton Schleicher's foe the moment he andertook to conciliate German labor. His policy ef creating work )4 him to modify seme cf the more rigorous parts' ef the program laid down by oa.Papea with respect to working contracts and wages. These two groups hare found in Hitler a wllllzs agent. Like them he believes in a regime of force. Like them, he detests the Weimar Constitution, its creators, the Social Democrats, and their supporters the Communists.

A consolidation of believers la "the iron fist" and monarchical restoration thus rides into power. It Is to be noted that Hitler's 400.000 "storm troops' plus the 150.000 Steel Helmet forces aligned with reaction are now brought into association tinder a regime which, in addition, will exert full control ever the Reichswehr. Herr Hitler made haste to pre-empt to bis party the Ministry of the Interior (which controls the police) and the Commlsslonersblp of the Interior in Prussia, largest by far of all Ger man States (which, again, means control of the police)" and the direc tion of the Government press bureau which, of course, will censor the opposition papers throughout the Reich. The natural consequences of this olidlfvinsr ef the forces of "Right extremism" are already in evidence. 'Jl consolidation -of all parties of the Xeft," loyal to the Republic and to the Reichstag, has begun.

Socialism as Joined hands with Communism; and against the 14,665.000 public supporters ef the political faith of the ee Ministry, sn equally powerful tost of Republicans Is mustering. Tbe Reichsbaaser troops ef the So- EDITORIAL POINTS A report on the Senatorial expense account reveals that on May 12, 1931, Senator Smoot telephoned to the White House from Salt Lake City at a cost of $30. And let us hope that no Senator ever tries to conduct a filibuster by telephone. rf The booby prize for sticking close to business might be awarded to the prisoner In Sing Sing who was so busy trying to cut a hole in the ceiling of hie cell, so that he might escape, that he forgot to attend the prison rollcall. A big snowstorm in the mountains deprived Reno, Nev, of lights and power, but the city's baslo industry, it is understood, was not interrupted.

This Congress may not be a collection of brilliant and cooperative in-tellects, but at least it has voted to stop appropriating to be used fr wire-tapping and for payment to informers who, cynics believe; would as readily swear an innocent man into Jail as a bootlegger, provided the pieces of silver were forthcoming. Begining tomorrow all the Pennsylvania Railroad trains between New York and Philadelphia will be operated by electricity, and tbe event is one more reminder that depressions are un able to halt the irresistible march of progress. Depending en how the Japanese mind works, the staging of a large scale- war game by our Navy in the Pacific Ocean may or may not help to improve our relations with Japan. PTintnarranlia rtt TTn TTtMerr remind us once more that be looks like Charles Chaplin, but isn't nearly ao runny. Laws and police alone cannot prevent deaths from automobile accidents.

With 11 persons killed last week in this Commonwealth alone. It becomes increasingly apparent that the only solution to tbe problem lies in the exercise by every motor vehicle operator cf carefulness to the point of fussi- ness. Huey Long charges that 11,000,000 was spent to prevent his election to the United States Senate, and not a few conservative persons will reflect, with regret, that it wasn't enough. A great scientist is a man' like Dr Einstein, who develops a big idea which another great, scientist, 100 years hence, will perhaps prove to be all wrong. When Europe comes to Washington to get its mortgage reduced, Europe will have to look out for her own eye teeth just as Uncle Sam failed to do at the Versailles Peace Conference.

For Uncle Sanv-be it known, is now an older and a wiser fellow, at least in financial matters. Any energy survey of North America should include an estimate of the mileage a Klcgflsh gets on a cubio foot of gas. Utopia will have arrived when American citizens feel like doffing their hats when a Senator passes by. As soon as the Spring cleaning season begins the Japanese will get on with their job of polishing off China. The opposite of a technocrat, perhaps, is a technocrat)- General forecast for New England weather: Bad.

WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT Anonymous communications will receive no attention, nor will any notice be Bald those of endue length. Denominational or sectarian euestions ere sot acceptable. Pensions of Widow of Presidents T. I. Russell.

Torus. He. At the present time all widows of former Presidents of tbe United States, with tbe exception of Mrs Coolidsre. receivn pensions from the Government and the frankins oriviles-e. Alice Roosevelt Long worth Constant Header.

Dorchester Mrs Alice Roosevelt Loncworth was born In February. 1884; married Nicholas Lontworth. Feb IT, 1906. Their daughter. Paulina, was born in Chicago.

Feb 14. 1925, Mr Lonrworth. who was born in Cincinnati 14 1869. died April 9, 1931. Assassination of Diamond Z.

T. 2.. Revere Jack (Irs) Diamond, a tranrster boss, was shot to death in his room in a boardinr house on Dove at. Albany, at 4:50 r. on Dec 18.

1931. after his return from a party where he had been celebratin hi acquittal on the charre of kidnaping- a 30-year-old farm boy. Four previous attempts had been made to assassinate him. Senators From Seme City James J. Fitehburr While Jt is not nsual for both senators of a State to come from tbe same city, it seems to he not wholly peculiar to this Stat.

Besides Massachusetts, both of whose present senators are from Fitchburr. both of Alabama's senators are from Birmingham; of Idaho's from Boise; of Indiana's from Indianapolis; of Minnesota's from Minneapolis: of New York's from New York citys of Pennsylvania's from Pittsburr: of Utah's from Salt Lke City; znaJunc eight States in this class. Mrs Theodore Booevelt A. Gartland Mrs Theodore Boots-eTt. widow of President Roosevelt, was Edith Kermtt Parow, daurhter of Charles and Gertrude Tyler Carow of New York, She and President Roosevelt were married in London in 1886.

two years after the death of bis first wife, wbo was Alice Lee of Boston. Mrs Roosevelt makes her home at Sagamore Hill. Oyster Bay. Long Island, where she was taken as a bride. In 1927, Suburban Heights "91 THE tiimT PEOPLE TO CALL, HAP PUT THE DOOR j(CepyhW as the mainstay of tranquillity Japanese Foreign Minister.

others' right By Order of the President Jan '30-Attached to the White House during Mr Coolldge'a tenancy was Mr May, a colored man of various duties, among them that of barbering the President and his guests. Sometimes he shaved Mr Coolldge or cut his hair. One morning, when Chief Justice Hughes was an over-night guest. May came to the President's chamber to see if his services would be needed. "You don't need to shave me today," said Coolldge, "but go and ask Mr gughes if he wants a shave this morning." May came out into the hall flabbergasted.

Tbe (lightest request of the President was an executive order and as such must be obeyed Immediately. But ask Mr Hughes if he wanted to be Just how he solved this dilemma la Is not recorded. see While President Coolldge was making a short visit to Plymouth. Vt, he had May along with him and found many odd jobs to keep him busy around the farmhouse. One day a basket of vegetables had been sent up from John Garibaldi Sargent's garden in Ludlow and a neighbor shortly afterwards saw the colored attache out on the porch working hard over something.

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On sar old OUl Of print. LIPPMANN, This series of articles was completed before the schism In the ranks of the technocrats took place and before Mr Howard Scott stnd hie faction were repudiated by Columbia University. While thia development 1 certain to destroy a larfe part of the prestige of the claim for technocracy, the Ideas which have been circulated by the movement are still so widely discussed in the United States that the author is venturing to print the articles as written. W. I.

TECHNOCRACY The Appeal to Science TO all parts of the land the report has gone forth that for 12 years a body of scientists at Columbia, University have been studying- the ecortomlc situation, that they have diagnosed the trouble, have pronounced the present order doomed to certain destruction, and have discovered the principles of a new and happier society. JL very large number of persons have been greatly impressed. Here, at last, it appeared, was something to tie to at a time when the reputations of statesmen and bankers, captains of industry and economists, are at a considerable discount. Here were engineers, technicians, physicists clear-thinking, accurate men, without the prejudices, the selfishness and the weaknesses of our present leaders. The oracles of science-were prepared to speak, and, as the technocrats themselves tell us, "to modern civilized men science has become the court of last resort the explanations offered in the name of science are accepted." It is, then, in the name of Science that technocracy professes to speak.

The technocrats have let the public think- that their claim to speak "in the name of science" is certified by a great university. By exploiting these pretensions they have, for the moment, gotten the ear of the public, and they are saying that the present order of things Is destined to a complete collapse; that by April, 1934. there will be 20,000,000 unemployed, and that, at some time after that, a new order will arise, without politicians, without bankers, without employers, without debts, in which nobody will need to work more than 16 hours a week, and everyone will have an income of $20,000. The prophecy of doom suits the popular mood: when prices have been falling: for three years why not suppose they will fall to zero? The prospect of a millennium is also popular: who would not like to believe scientists who promise riches -with almost no work? Thus the prestige of science, the mystification of sclentlflo jarjfon, the prediction of disaster, and the promise of salvation have proved to be an idfeal combination to impress a people who are disillusioned, frightened, and eager for guidance. It Is a heartless pretense.

I say this without impugning the good faith of many men, some of them personal friends of mine, who have been caught in the agitation and sincerely believe in it. Technocracy is to the misery of the depression what Insulllsm and Kreugerism were to the frenzied finance of the boom. It Is a vast inflation and pyramiding of generalizations and theories on a small base of substantial truth. Hon orable and sincere men believed in the Insull and Kreuger contraptions, for there were some real properties underneath both these enterprises. Honorable and sincere men believe in technocracy, are real problems of manifest importance underlying its spectacular assertions.

But the prophecies and promises which purport to be based upon these realities are scientific hocus pocus. In making this charge I rely upon the testimony of Joseph W. Barker, dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Columbia University, Mr it should be understood, is the head of that department of Columbia University which, according to Mr Howard Scott, is in association with" the "energy survey of North America now being conducted by Technocracy." Writing in the "American Bankers' Association Journal" for February, Dean Barker explains that Columbia has been associated with technocracy, not for 12 years, as the public hss been allowed to believe, but for approximately 10 months. He states that the work of collecting data onhe effects of technological changes is In its early stages, and that thus far there has been only one "preliminary conference," held last December, to consider the material thua far collected. "It must be recognized," he says, "that the very magnitude of such a study precludes any possibility of immediate results." Yet here are Mr Howard Scott and his disciples writing magazine articles, publishing' books, speaking on the radio and Issuing statements purporting to contain conclusions drawn from "the study at Columbia, Dean Barker has supplied the clew to the mystery of technocracy.

Ever since last Summer, when technocracy came into the lime-light, the most puzzling aspect of the agitation has been the curious behavior of Mr Scott and his dis-ciples when they were asked to the underlying material for their generalizations. I have talked with Mr Scott and withf his chief lieutenants at considerable length, and I was not able to obtain from them any plain answer to the obvious question: Where is the material on which you base sill your theories? Others have obvi-ously' had the same experience The American Engineering Council, for example, has stated publicly that it has been impossible to ob. tain "from the promoters of the movement an authoritative state, snent of their findings and their program." In the New York Times of Sunday, January 22, replying to Mr Simeon strunsky's criticisms, the technocrats state that "the results" of their research "will be published when they have assumed a form consistent with logical presentation and the highest possible accuracy in detail." In the meantime Mr Scott will go on publishing his "results" in the popular magasines and throughv all other forms of publicity. Now the technocrats profess to be engineers who have been working since 1920, according to the canons of scientific research. the situation were to pe i i laid on through the contact of hundreds of thousands of loving hands.

The stones appear like blocks of glass to the point of transparency through the rivers of tears that have coursed over their unfeeling surface. Jews approached tbe wall and a mere touch of the slippery stone was enough to make them burst out in poignant sobbing. Old men calmly walked forward, their hands stretched out to the wall as to a friend who brings a message of con Bolation. Some bent down and kissed the stones reverently. Others again, as if prey to some tremendous sorrow too great for word.8, wept, lean ing against the hard stones, as if they were the shoulders of a beloved master.

One man held his cbeek against the wall. His eyes were closed. Lovingly lie stroked the block of stone. And not only incomprehensible Orientals behaved in this manner. There were some American-Jewish tourists, clean-shaven young business men, wearing well-cut clothes.

These moderns also came under the spell of the Wailing Wall. And what is more, they had come knowing they would, as was shown when they unfolded their silken prayer-shawls before joining the rhythmic swaying of innumerable bodies. Some people affirm that Jews do not differ from us Westerners, except in credal affiliation. Let them go to the Walling Wall and learn. Does any Egyptian ever weep orer the departed glory of the Pharaohs? Do Athenians kiss the crumpling marble steps of the Acropolis? The mediaeval grandeur of Flanders is no more.

Ypres lies in ruins. Bruges is Brugesla Mort; Do these things stir any Fleming to tears? But the Jews weep bitter and scalding tears, from the depths of the Jewish soul, where remains an eternal panting for other worlds. In that cramped area, before the Wall, in an atmosphere fetid with the emanations of rags and sweating bodies, the poignant cry that rose up was not the futile lament over the past, always tbe refuge and consolation of the old and feeble, but the pent-up longing of all humanity, expressed in a great sigh without words, for a new vision of peace and of justice. For ages they, have stood here, these sons of Abraham and Isaiah, not only praying and lamenting, but clamoring for God to speak again on the site where his temple stood. They are beating their heads and fists against the remnants of God's house, 1 with insistent appeal: "Speak to Israel, speak to the world CopyrUrht, 1W3.) Mosque of Omar mental reasons and that Mfse Tbooeon weald continue to run the Inn, Mrs "UooteveJt bM done much traveling wnce toe eath of ber famous husband, and is at present in tbe Philippine visiting: her eldest son, but shj always returns to the home at Sara-more Hill.

She did spend some time dur. inr the summer at the inn in Brooklyn, but it could not be called ber Summer home. By Gluyas Williams 31 RRmBRBosfl 4 i I '1 1 announced through a press agent that a group or researcn wwwri Harvard Medical School had been studying heart disease for 12 years and had discovered revolutionary knowledge pertaining to it; and then suppose that they failed to invite other medical men to examine their data, test their instruments, check their procedure, though they were quite willing to write fo- popular magazines ana make the most tremendous claims. In medicine that would be dismissed indignantly as quackery. Among technologists it is also quackery.

Dean Barker had let the cat out of the bag. It is true that material is being collected at Columbia, presumably in a conscientious way. This material is, however, so incomplete that the engineering faculty at Columbia, which knows about It, regards It as unready for publication and as offering no foundation whatever for any Immediate practical conclusions. Taking off from this Investigation, a movement headed by Mr Howard Scott has been launched which pretends to be speaking for the research workers, but is in fact offering the general public Mr Scott's own notions about things In general. This explains the main mystery of technocracy, which is: how does the analysis of the facts lead so certainly to Mr Scott's enormous conclusions? Tbe explanation is that tt does sot lead to them.

There is no logical or rational connection between the analysis and the conclusions. For the conclusions have been reached before the analysis has been completed. Mr Scott's prophecies of doom and his promises of a millennium heave, therefore, no essential connection with the survey which is being carried on at Columbia University, and the claim that he is speaking "in the name of science" is simply not so. (Te Be Continued Tomorrow) (Coprris-ht, ms.) Mil fKhe MarVm Sautngs When a pop'lar girl finally marries she never gets credit for gettin th on she wus after. TV hardest thing Is writin a recommendation fer soma ene we know.

ANAGRAM PUZZLERS Rearrange the letters in the word given plus the additional letter given, so as to form another word. Example: SEAL ss Answer, LEASE. 'Can you solve the following anagrams? (1) RAIDED (2) BONDER (3) SHADES (4) PASTER I (5) LACERS Uk? Selutlens rtt today's anarrams are printed en the hack put. WHAT WORD IS THIS? -f VW Yesterday's answeri His overcoat buttons are sewed on through four holes in one button and only two In the others. 4-H Work Shews Cain BERKELEY.

Calif (A. B. U. Crocheron, director of agricultural extension In the State university, re. potted a gain in 4-H club work In '19-32 as well as an Increased membership.

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