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Mechanical And Moral Progress.
seem
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EVERYWHERE.
World Silver Conference, Governor Roosevelt, in anticipa-| tion of his election as President of the United States, is now declaring himself in favour of certain lines of policy.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1932.
Vast
Forces Join Political War
New Weapons With Old Strategies
ROOSEVELT TAKES STAGE
Ho promises to call a world con ference on the silver question with-1 out evasion and without delay. Mr. Roosevelt considers the stabilisation! of silver prices an essential to the maintenance of a sound currency,
Two Englishmen who will be in-! terested in this declaration are Sir After an apathetic Summer, the grinding consonants of the Corn Hugo Cunliffe-Owen and Mr. Amery. Presidential campaign of 1932 at Belt. He reads his speeches as if last is under way. "Swinging it were a major effort. But if the around the circle,' as the old Republicans can establish their
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Civil Service Posera. Many of the problems eet in political phrase expresses it, goes strategy that the President is solid, Civil Service examinations are so Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the De- and Mr. Roosevelt volatile in magnificently inappropriate such mocratic candidate. so that the time which calls for staying power, as the following, which had to be people from whom he is asking Mr. Hoover's lack of "radio ap answered by girl candidates for plection to the office of the nation's peal" may help and not hurt him. The job of the chairman is to executive posts in a recent examina-Chief Magistrate may bath see and
hear him.
win. He leaves fine phrases and Describe the external changes in Even with the acceleration of high-sounding promises to the can- the frog's egg from the time of popluar interest aroused by the didates and the lesser orators, All. deposition to the time of hatching tour, are very small boys in the day long he listens to callers, and (ie, when the tadpole breaks United States coming to blows over talks briefly in reply. His public through its coating of jelly). Hoover and Roosevelt? There used appearances are limited largely to
These are defined. Give some indication of the dura- to be fights in every country "statements." tion of this period of the frog's schoolyard and on every city black by an ancient formula. The beat life, and preferably from your over the merits of Bryan and Mc- description of the formula is, own observations.
Kinley. After 1998 this observer "Claim everything, concede noth- And the future task of the suc-of national affairs lost contact ing." It is also considered advis- cessful candidates in this examina- with political emotions thus hon-able to issue some optimistic state- tion will be to levy super-tax, to estly expressed: It is probablement from national headquarters
Each State- charge and collect death duties, and that boys still black one another's at least once a day. audit the National Accounta! eyes over who shall be President, and district chairman does the The 10-year-old son of the Demo-same, and throughout the Presiden- cratic district leader and his con-tial campaign the newspapers are- temporary in the household of the full of these insincere and untruth- Republican chieftain cannot have ful eruptions.
They are part of the tactics, the- deteriorated so much in quality as
to
to settle their differences by debate ballyhoo, for it to-the belief, if not and theme-writing. But somehow the experience, of practical politics feel that this year, the school that the American people do not fighting-fronts and the Juvenile want the truth from the managing. shock-troops are fewer.
politicians. Instead of applauding
Your Daily Smile.
UP TO DATE. I congratulate in advance the first fashionable enough discovery, however they may society woman
to obliterate what were to discover that she suffers from Yo called certainties, still contain Yo wrist.. unread riddles which cannot be interpreted in the language of Home!
On prohibition, there being no the first chairman to deviate from. ordinary experience. The place Visitor (to convict): "Don't any difficulty with the wets from the the ancient system of deception, of the atom, as the ultimate in-of your relatives ever come to see Democratic standpoint, the work the supposedly large group of divisible unit of matter, has been you?"
must be done with the drya, par "band wagon" volers would flock taken by the proton and the elec- Convict: "They don't have ticularly since these drys are con- into the other camp. At least, this tron, temporarily deemed ultim-They are all in here."
centrated in the South, the party is the firm opinion of politics. That stronghold. They must be steeled is why a Republican chairman, Sir Alfred Ewing, speaking atjate and indivisible. But the pro-
You Never Know.
against Republican efforts for all however bad the field reports, will York recently, declared himself ton and electron, the photon, neu-j the oldest President of the Bri-tron, and Planck's mysterious A optimistic German royallst this while counter-strategy is work concede only a few Southern States a Demo.. tish Association for the Advance-"constant of action," have ascrib-saythe time is coming when everying from Republican headquarters to the enemy, and why
body will take their hats off to the to alarm them over the fate of cratic chairman usually says there ment of Science had ever chosen.ed to them qualities and proper-
former Kuiser. Maybe he's going dry States under the Democratic is a chance" in Pennsylvania." He described the progress made ties almost paradoxical, and cer-
platform. They must be reassured This part of the battle is con- during his own lifetime by ab-tainly of such a kind that they to get a job in a hat shop, stract physical science, and by can form no secure basis for Joke about Taxi-drivers.
that the candidate favoura any ducted by the publicity depart Federal laws which may be neces-ments of the national committees. the applied science of engineer- metaphysical interpretations of A Hong Kong pirate is said to ing, of which he has been a the universe. To show how re have had a University education. sary to keep the liquor traffic out Frequently statements attributed of their communities. They must to national chairmen or other great part, and discussed the lag mote physical conceptions of the Many London taxi-drivers, too, are be further assured that, under the directors have not even been sub- in time between advances in atom and its secret forces are
wranglers of some note, with Democratie party, the baloon will mitted to these oracles before pub- knowledge and their moral diges- from the grades of energy which honours in modern languages and not be tolerated anywhere on lication. During the last three tion by mankind. The President are as yet under human control, detrimental arithmetic. could speak with more than usual Sir Alfred Ewing said that en- authority on the reactions of gincers were accustomed to the The Right Spirit. mankind to mechanical progress. idea of storing energy in a con- He was
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Facts You Did Not Know.
American soil.
years this method has been perfect- This year the Democrats have ed by Charles Michelson; publicity A business man recently cut off another problem the resentment director of the Democratic Nation a Professor in Japan denser to a potential amount of a his son with a bottle of whisky. So of a group personally devoted to al Committee, a journalist of wide the candidate of 1928. It is major experience, first-rate ability and while that country was in active few scores or hundreds or thou now there's a nip in the heir!
Republican strategy to promote the excellent judgment. transformation from a feudal and sands of volts. But in every
In addition to.organization, inner disaffection of this group' to the pastoral organization to ajatom there was a permanent se-
bolting point. In pursuing these strategy and publicity, there is the mechanized-and capitalized comparation of positive and negative
tactics underground arguments will broad strategy of Presidential cam- munity. He hears at the pre-electricity, the protons and elec-
This time the Demo- be used, as the reverse of these paigning. sent time such partial rumours trons, so to say, looking across
Immensely great dielectric The blades of a giant turbo-arguments were used in the Southcrats are depending on the desire come through about the an elfort which is being made to gulf which no laboratory opera-generator that is providing elee in 1928. Campaign management of hard-up and unemployed people force mechanism in its most ex-tion ever caused them to bridge.trical power in a New Jersey city calls neither for consistency nor for a change in the government. Many Presidents, including Mr. treme form upon the reluctant It was fortunate, he thought, travel at a speed of 810 miles an fine sense of ethics,
Whispering, has won more Pre-Hoover, having said that "psycho- mnases of Russia. In Dundee and that that energy was safely lock-hour, faster than any other ma
sidential campaigns than oratory logy" cures, depressions after the in Edinburgh, in Cambridge and ed away, for "if the secret were chinery over büllt.
ever has, and the Republicans are basic troubles are dispose of, the in London he has seen the discovered of letting loose the changes wrought by the applica-atomic store, we should invite dis To give an automobile driver aleerily akilled in it. No official Democrats offer a change at. Wash- tion of technical inventions in the solution at the hands of any fool better view of roads behind him a sanction is given to whispering, of ington as the surest method of a wide course, but there is a benignant achieving that psychology. The lives of the people in a civiliza-Jor knave." But no secret of Na-Frenchman has invented tion that seemed settled. ture is secure from research, angle lens to be mounted in the back attitude at G.H:Q. which "the boys" Republicans counter with their Science has invaded the home and what is to happen if the dis- window of a car, enlarging the understand. In 1928 the whisper stock argument that Democrats In ran through the South, that the power are "dangerous" and are and altered the daily round; it covery should be made and re-images seen in a mirror in front.
Democrats ought to be defeated certain either to bring worse times.. has brought new interests and leased to the world in the cold comforts, and it has enlarged serenity of science? Hitherto An insulated chest has been in- for nominating a Catholic. In 1982 or a continuation of the present. This kind of campaign is not ex:: powers of work and of play. The Lord Rutherford's transmutation vented to be mounted over a kitchen the soft breezes carry a suggestion industrial lethargy. output of manufactures and of of elements has been made by sink and connected by tubing with to New England, New York and agriculture has been increased bombarding atomic nuclei with a faucet to keep the temperature of Illinois that the Democrats ought citing. An abstract debate never many times, transport is swifter the natural missiles provided by food stored in the chest down to that to lose because they refused to 15. In 1928 Mr. Hoover never men- nominate, a Catholic. Industrial tioned Mr. Smith and never ad- But of the cold water supply. and more efficient; new means of the radio-active elements.
workers somehow hear that times mitted that he was answering.one communication have transcend-only last year two of his disciples,
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ed geographical distance. The using a steady potential of German planters are planning to may be worse if the Democrats, and of his opponent's arguments. This sound of crisis or prosperity re several hundred thousand volts, increase their annual production of "radicals" are allowed to check year his policy acems--to be the As the fight for the Presidency verberates round the world al- have given protons sufficient tobacco from 60,000,000 to 60,000, the aure return of recovery, led by most as swiftly as the earth penetrating power to disrupt the 000 pounds and are asking the govthe President. Even à Republican quake waves of which Sir Alfred nucleus of lithium and to release ernment to require the use of 80 per Senator did not hesitate to make enters ife active phase, the ad- the sly suggestion that a candidate vantages of the rival parties may was an early student. And yet, a portion of its atomic energy, cent, astive tobacco in cigars.
who had
boen afflicted with be listed as follows:
The Republicans: A naturaf at the present time, we carry a Is it certain even that the abun load of social and political and dant and familiar gifts of en- Forestry scientists have discover-poliomyelitis would naturally de
signs of business improvement economic discontents." It gineering science have made oned that a mixture of white arseniebate in terms of "Alice in Wonder- majority, in the country; the faint might be argued that so far ab- balance an addition to the safety and lye, applied to cuts in their land."
The radio and the talkies do the resentraent of the friends of stract science has done little more add to the happiness of mankind? bark, will kill young trees that it than to unsettle beliefs of It would be easy to develop the is desired to remove to give, other great deal to counteract such whis- Mr. Smith that he was not re
pering as the latter example. And nominated; the Walker threat; thei? at least pragmatical value, and question, and to consider the evils treea near them a chance to grow,
the "swing around the circle" pre-record of the Democratic House that applied science had loaded attendant upon the increase of cultivating what was one of his sents the candidate in person to and the legislative proposals of the ordered civilizations of the nominal wealth, upon production most God-given faculties, the millions, who in turn tell other Speaker Garner; the crippling 111- world with benefits under which outrunning distribution or ever creative: ingenuity of the engin millions what he looks like, how ness suffered by Governor Roose they are being crushed. Largo need, upon the artisan's loss feer? It may be hoped that his he seems, how he talks, how much velt some years ago; the power of opportunities have been given to the joys of handicraft, upon suboptimism, however faint, will be he resembles his pictures. The the Federal offices, the distrust of research and a large and practi- marines and polson gay, upon the justified. At least. It is to the candidate can get on the radio the Democrats labelled "Progressive" cal return has been demanded part played by wireless in the good that a leader of science night before election and do much by the business community the en- Has science played the part of instantaneous spreading of Tale should forewarn us that the to, counteract any last-minute aen mity of the public utility interests the Sabine soldiers who, in place or malicious rumours and in con "Brave New World" into which sation. This boon of science Is for the Democratic candidates the of rewarding Tarpeia with the centrating the responsibility for mechanical progress may lead us especially beneficial to Mr. Roose arduous and earnest labours of the golden bracelets she coveted, action in a few political centres not necessarily a happy or a volt. He has an excellent radid Frealdent to correct the depres overwhelmed her with their turning plénipotentiaries into re- shields Sir Alfred Ewing's clear porters, and commanders into good world. Man does not live presence, and his pleasant, cultision.
and untechnical review showed servants. Sir Alfred Ewing state by bread alone, and probably he rated voice comes beautifully out The Democrats: The dopres- that recent advances in shatract od his hope, almost his beller, Cannot either survice or develop of the eiving set. Hooves, sion, and unemployment; the bonus physical science, however that man could not be destined by the mere increase of mechani- as in personal speech and appear hgitation and the eviction of the
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