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Letter To President Roosevelt By U.S. Professor

"What is it you want us to do?... We want to know the truth."... "We can take It”....... These statements are made in a letter written to President Roosevelt by a Professor of English at Harvard University.

The text of the letter follows. Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. President:--

I am writing you this open letter because, like thousands of other Américans, I and myself in a di- Jemma, The dilemma is that we

ed war on Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Luxem bourg, Yugoslavia, Rumunia, Bul- Greece. The modern garia

declare technique of war is not it but to wage it. Nazi Germany will not wait for a formal declara-

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EXCHANGE OF RATIFICATIONS TO TREATY

TOKYO, July 6 (Reuter)-An the exchange of ratifications of peace treaty between France and Thailand and the protocol con- cerning the guarantee and the political understanding between and between Japan and France

FINANCE & GENERAL PANAMA CANAL ZONE AS BASE FOR DIRECTION OF AIR & NAVAL OPERATIONS

THE CANAL ZONE IS A PLACE TO BE DEFENDED, as well as a base from which to direct air and naval operations over the Caribbean area. Commander of the Panama Canal Department is tall, resplendent. Lient.-Gen. Daniel Van Voorhis. He awo heads the whole Caribbean Defence Command, which up to now has existed principally on paper.

Japan and Thailand, was an-

In December 1840, states "Time,” ¡lf pushed to the extreme, fly from nounced by the Japanese Informa- when the War Department was French Dakar to the Canal Zone. tion Buard yesterday.

straining every nerve to put the Air power has thus completely re... At the same time, an exchange Canal Zone on 2 war footing,vised all theories of the defence of ratifications of the treaty of General Van Voorhis had the of the Canal The only military

do not know what it is you want) tion of war. When the time comes/ establishment and navigation be- following important order distri-solution: defensive air and naval

us to do.

it will simply do as it likes.

"WE ARE AT WAR"

you

The people of the United States)

Can we be said to be at peace paid, you the most singular com- pilment ever paid to a Chlef Exe- when you have called upon us to cutive. You received a third term be the arsenal of the democracies, i at their hands. They voted for when you have asked us to pay a you because, although many of tax bill of seven billions, and when them admired your opponent. Mr. have told Great Britain to Wendell Willkle, they felt that the help herself to the war stuff we are condition of the world was to turning out? Do you suppose any- serious to permit turning over the body in Berlin thinks we helm of the ship of state to an friendly power?

We know we are at war whether amateur pilot. Now they find they can understand Mr. Wilkic and Congress formally saye so or not But the war is, we are told, not a they cannot understand you. Wikle has been to England and "shooting war," and we must do

all we can to avoid hurting any ne has told us we must get sup-

we do not want a plies over there at any cost. That body. Well,

Mr

THE PLAIN PEOPLE When I say the plain people of the United States I mean just that. I mean the man at the filling sta- tion and behind the plow, the man at work with the machine tools, the small businessman, the high school teacher, the corner grocery. man, and the man in the cab of the limited train.

There is in this country a noisy,

whose and vociferous minority. Importance we think you incline

are a

How much of it is going to the bottom of the ocean? Why should we tax ourselves for the benefit of the Atlantic Ocean?

tween Japan and France concern-buted: "New transportation is ar-power, based as far as possible ing Indo-China, and the Japanese riving in the Department covered from the Canal itself, as near as French agreement with reference with dall Anish O.D. paint. In or-possible to the starting points of to customs tariffs. trade and me-

der to improve the appearance of enemy attack. thod of payment between Japan these vehicles, they will be clean- That solution means absolute and Indo-China. also took place.

ed, waxed and polished to A military superiority not only of smooth, bright finish."

the area

within the Caribbean of ring but the Latin-American

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have to sacrifice if we listen to a noisy minority and postpone ac- tion in the name of "neutrality." Mr. President, we are not afraid of the English language.

But we want to know the truth, We can take it,

"WE WILL SHOOT" We think it is up to you, Mr. to exaggerate. This minority is President, to tell us what we ought composed in part of innocent and to do in order to get this material simple people who sincerely want into the hands of our friends, and to put "Amerlea first" and who we do not want to be put off with benteve the war against Great Bri-words. If this requires shooting, it University tain is "Just another European war."

Another part of that minority is composed of rather sinister ele- the Ku Klux ments the Bund, Klan, the subscribers to Father Coughim's "Social Justice the various incipient fascist groups, the people who think Mr. Lindbergh is a great mind because he flew across the Atlantic and the people who re- gard Benator Wheeler as a great statesman because he was an excel- ient prosecutor.

VERRAL FENCING

We think you are unwittingly playing into their hands, because, the more we delay making up our

minds about what we truly intend

Yours very truly, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of English, Harvard

Electrons In Photography

New York-Electrons. the atoms of electricity, produce pho- tographic Images just as effectively as light, and develop the images electrically at the same time. This surprising discovery was made at the Eastman Kodak laboratories in Rochester, when electrons were used in an effort to and out what happens to the crystals on a photographie plate when light strikes them, and what changes take place when the plate is developed, converting the latent image into a vis.ble one.

Hundreds of scientists have been at work for many years at the Kodak laboratories on these and related problems at a cost of many millions of dollars, seeking a complete solution of the the mystery of photography,

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Nine Planes To Be Given To Chinese Government

By Single Company

Representing the largest single donation in the 1,600-warplane tund campaign to date, the SIN SUI COMPANY, one of the leading Chinese transportation concerns with head office in Hongkong and Sil branches all over Free China, has pledged NC$1,350,000 for the purchase of a squadron of nine planes to be presented to the Cbl-"" nese Govenment.

BIG LOSSES

(Reuter)M CAIRO, July 6. Oliver Lyttelton, the new Minister of State who is to represent the The Bin Sul Company was organ- War Cabinet in the Middle East, ised in the spring of 1932 for arrived here yesterday,

PRESENT DEFENCES Its present defences are nothing approaches beyond it, the ap- to brag about. This condition does proaches from Africa and Europe (Reuter) not worry Army people the as well. That is why Army and BOMBAY, July Landslides in five places in the spot as much as might be expect-Naval officers in the Canal Zone Western Ghats have blocked the ed. They know that the vulner- impatiently dismiss queries and Bombay--Poona Line, suspending able Canal and the narrow Isthmus quibbles about the Canal's local

still it of Panama have inherent defence defences. The Canal is all services, and it is expected

the limitations which no amount of focal point of the Caribbean de- will take three days to clear blocks.

badly-needed anti-aircraft equip-fence system. But the Canal's de- Meanwhile Bombay Madras ment or planes can wholly over- fence today is just as good as and!

no better than the defences of is clear and specific. The plain shooting war if we can avoid it trains have been diverted.

For the States are We do not want to kill our ans

second time the Gov- The only sure defence of the Trinidad, Puerto Rico and people of the United still waiting for you to be equally any more than did the Greeks or ernor of Bombay, Sir Roger Lum- Canal is at a distance; by ship. by other outlying U8. bases to be.

plane, by economic, political and

PUERTO RICO the Dutch or the English. But we ley, at present in Poona, has can clear and specific.

have been put into this dilemma; į celled his departure for Bombay diplomatic alliance with the coun- Puerto Rico, not so new a site tries of Latin America and by ocas Trinidad, has been called "The we are giving just enough aid to

cupation or neutralization of the Gibraltar of the Caribbean" Great Britain to alienate Hitler. and that aid is not reaching Great is just too bad, but we will shout bases from which an enemy might and on since 1939, when the Army We think we are likely to sacrifice attack. The US now lacks those and Navy recognized the hot, un- Britain in sufficient quantities to turn the tide of battle. Or is it? fewer lives and far less treasure outward defences; to provide them happy island's great strategic im. We think we have a right to know. by being effective now than we will the purpose of the Caribbean portance, its key situation to the eastern approaches of the Parama RADIUS OF ATTACK

Canal. But after two years, Puer- What worries the Army and to Rico is far from being a Gibral- Navy. more 16 the constantly tar widening radius of possible attack The Navy dawdled for months, un the Canal. Whenever thefinally got its great Isla Grande range of bombers lengthens, that air base in San Juan Harbour un-

The General Manager of the transportation services mainly be- radius lengthens. Even the Coast der way. Once started, construc- Company, Mr. Chu Ping, a native tween Suiyuan, Kansu and Sin- Artillerymen who man the great, tion went apace. Isla Grande al- of Sinxiang, showed extreme modes- klang. After the outbreak of the fixed guns at the Canal entrances ready harbours a small force of

hostilities, the place on great faith in such em-naval patrol planes, by autumn will regarding the tremendous ef- Sino-Japanese

fort of his concern when inter- Buiyuan section of the service was placements. No enemy likely to come within range while much larger and more effective lewed by the Central News today. disrupted and the Company bus-

combat force. But it is not a for-e expressed the hope that with tained tremendous losses.

The Company then turned ita Coast Artillery anti-aircraft men. tress, merely a station which will the Sin Sul Company taking the

amount to more than the lead, other transportation concerns attention to the Southwest where although they could use more and never

the planea stationed in the interior will follow suit in branch offices were established. At better guns, have gone into the power

order to bring the campaign to a present it is handling transporta- jungles, placed and manned what there.

tion along the Burma Road and guns they have there, done a great Planned, but still years from success.

Unreserved efforts, he said, will | between Kunming, Kwelyang, job of soldiering. But they too, completion, is a great Navy an-

be exerted during the three months Wuchow, Lluchow and Hongyang. have no illusions about last-ditch chorage off the eastern

August and Septem

According to Mr. Chu, the ser- defence. If ever enemy bombers Puerto Rico, between Vicques and of July. in sufficient force get over the Culebra Islands. These sheltered her to raise the huge sum so that vices in the Northwest have been Zone, and find the few small tar-waters can give anchorage to an it wil be able to present the nine curtailed but pleas are being made gets that mean anything, the enormous fleet (they did so in aircraft to the Government on Na- to increase them Canal can be closed: the US 1939, during manoeuvres in the tional Independence Day on Oe- Caribbean). But the anchor-tober 10, when the presentation VULNERABLE FROM DAKAR age will not be a major naval base ceremony will be held in Chung They have gained a tremendous | could

Theoretically outmoded U.S. until it gets coastal fortifications, king. amount of knowledge which has lenses in the same way that light-planes (example: the Douglas B-a great breakwater, shore repair been used to provide greatly in beams could be focused by glass twelve-hour nights, hope non-stop facilities--which, at best, will be to

for Great Britain, the proved ways of picture making, lenses. Even when the surround- do

from Miami or Texas to the Zone. many years abuilding. the latest greater opportunity these persons and

Ere un- ing waves counted into the Pan American Clippers do it in have to spread their doctrines.doubtedly will bring

new dimension of the electrons they hours. Existing bombers could, They are definite. You are not. You and important improvements, are still comparable size with take refuge behind words. Perhaps Exactly what they will be or how atems and molecules, and can be this verbal fencing is forced upon soon they can be appiled cannot, used to examine objects tens of

If that however, be foreseen now.

thousands of times smaller than you by the neutrality law. law stands in the way of saving The scientists have been working could be seen with light-waves, the republic, tell us and we will auder something

Magnifications up to 100,000 dia- of a handicap muster up the votes to change the imposed by nature. The phenometers are possible with an "elec-

London. The day the First law.

mena which they have been study-tron microscope constructed in the The charge is made by these ing are produced by light-waves Kodak laboratories, and with this Great War was declared a German naturalist stepped unsuspectingly in the people that you promised to keep, acting on crystals of silver salts, instrument the crystals

off a freighter from Africa where this nation out of war and that which are changed by chemical emulsion the photographic you are dally leading this nation developers into metallic silver. The plate or film have been examined he had been collecting, into the arma of military authorities at nearer to war. On the other hand, changes in the emulsion on the before exposure to light, after ex- Southampton. Next thing he knew,1 an posure, before and after develop he was in an internment camp of some of your support comes from plate or film take place on persons who hate fascism but who atomic or molecular scale. Atoms ment and before and after fixirg feel that you will somehow are smaller than 1-1,000,000,000,- so that the changes reach stage enemy allens-Germans by

WANTED TO BUY manage to defeat the dictatorships 900th of an inch, and light, waves can be determined. As a result a hundred with whom he had noth- and yet keep this nation out of are of the order of 100,000 to the new insight has been obtained into tng in common but the accident of

WE PAY HIGH PRICES nationality. war. It is time to consider the mch. When studying such small the processes, involved.

But beyond the barbed wire for all gold and silver articles. nature of this so-called promise objects the principal tools of re- The chemical processes involved of yours, as well as the nature of search are light and photography, in photography are of a far more there were Englishmen like ham-Jade, diamonds, jewels, watches, but in this case these are the very subtle nature than those normally self, fellow selertlets aloor above fountain pens. Apply Far East subjects that are under investiga encountered in laboratories. They the political hatreds of the hour. Diamond and Gold Refining Co

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Sundays and Holidays Using light had photography to periences. As far as the image of them, an English naturalist, he floor. the other to his promise or to investigate light and photography making mechanism is concerned had once known, he got through a release him from that promise. is like trying to Ife one's self by there are just two kinds of atoms

Next day, down from, the Royalj But in the case of a man who the bootstraps. In spite of these in the photographic emulston- makes a pledge to a whole nation, limitations very definite progress those that have seen the light and Gardens at Kew, came his friend,

WANTED KNOWN how ta he to be released from that was made. The greatest step in those that have not. Those that with permission to take out his pledge if and when events make solving the mystery of the photo-have seen the light must be changBrother scientist on parole, by

Experienced Book-keeper Wants the keeping of his promise impos graphic processes came when the ed from their state in which they personal guarantee. He brought the

German to live in his own house Students to form a class, Guaran- alble? We cannot hold another electron was called in to find out are parts of a transparent crystal hold, walked to and from Kew with tee students to keep a whole set of election. We cannot by special what the light-waves are doing, to one in which they are parts of plebiscite vote that you shall be Light-waves. In the visible spect- an opaque mass of metallic silver him every day, talking of problems books after completion of a course held free of a campaign pledge. rum, measure (to use the nearest The active element on the photo of bird migration of jungle life of 6 months For Term and Far- There comes, a time in the life of round number) about 1,100,000th graphic plate of film is the liver- and plant distribution Of anything ticulars. Please Apply to:-Box any statesman worth his salt when of an inch. This seems extremely bromide crystal, microscopically but the killing between their coun- No. 468 c/o H.K.D.P. he must ennsider whether events small when compared to objects in small, distributed throughout the trymen have not so changed the original our every-day experience, but it is thin layer of gelatine. When light conditions of a political pledge as a very large measurement when comes through the lens it is ab- quiety continued his researches to render that pledge useless or compared with an atom; which is orbed by some of the atoms in adding to the great fund of human knowledge. At the end of four harmful

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smaller than a millionth of each crystal. The sort of thing I hear in the millionth of an inch. That is why

Individual years he was released, one Ger garage or the alling station is not light-waves are not of much use packets, or atoms, of radiation, man, at least, who ended the war with more brotherhood than any charge that you have broken in seeing atoms directly. An elec- each consisting of a small group your word: the sort of thing I tron is almost as much smaller or waves of the same length. hatred in his heart. hear is an expression of bewilder than an atom as an atom is smal- Different packets are made up of ment. Why do you paralyze our ler than a flat-wave different wave length, but any BADGES FOR R.A.AF win to rezist by taking refuge In When Clinton J. Davisson and one packet con lins only one size phrases?

war as it is waged today.

CAMPAIGN PLEDGE-

When a promise is made be- tween two individuals, one of these individuals has the right to hold

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BROTHERHOOD AND HATRED

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letter.

And every day the German

CANBERRA, July 8) (Redter the

The folationiste declare that laboratories, made in 1927, the sorb these packets of radiation Mr. McEwen announced that had- you have no right to declare war Nobel prize-winning discovery that When radiation is thus absorbed, kar bearing the word "Australia" that being the right of Congress electrons are surrounded by waver one of the planetary electrons re-for wear on the sleeve below the Treunder, well be provided for the (they are correct. But, it was exists and under some conditions act volving around the nucleu of a

only when it is declared, there is like wavek instead of partiales the river asöm Junina from an ornit RAE named to distinguish the Atmontag war on the habitable tiny Moetron became Avanable Ames the munku do but Tartan Cold itfed Flober Nill Germany never declar a substitute for light waves, They away. -

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