APROPOS of the antivivisectionists' fight against the Nobel prize award to Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Institute, Professor Herbert Satterley said the other day: "These antis contradict themselves terribly when they try to prove that animal research is useless and futile. They just put themselves in the position of one of their number whom I met at my hotel the other day. As this anti was dining I bent forward and said to him: 'Pardon me, but you are, I believe, both an antivivisectionist and a vegetarian?' 'Yes, sir, this is correct,' he answered. 'Then,' said I, 'you will probably be shocked to learn that you have just eaten a live caterpillar with your lettuce

Youthful Wisdom

A WOMAN of philanthropic tendencies was paying a visit to a lower East Side school. She was particularly interested in a group of poor pupils and asked permission to question them. "Children, which is the greatest of all virtues?"

No one answered.

"Now, think a little. What is it I am doing when I give up time and pleasure to come and talk with you for your own good?"

A grimy hand went up in the rear of the

EVERAL days ago the officers of your magazine were in meeting assembled, when the genial Advertising Manager brought in an order from a concern which agrees to cure almost every disease known to medicine. Of course, the advertisement was a fake, designed to swindle sick people out of their money by false promises of by false promises of speedy relief, and of course we refused to run it, because that has always been our policy. But as I saw that order go into the wastebasket (and it amounted to several hundred dollars), I could not but wonder whether or not the reading public appreciated such sacrifice. And the worst of it is that these several hundred dollars is not the whole sacrifice. Speaking conservatively, it is safe to say that this policy costs us several more thousands a year. Now, these thousands of real money are a big price to pay, even for a principle, particularly when it is not a generally recognized principle, and when there are plenty of respected and presumably virtuous citizens who ignore it utterly.

Well, as I was thinking this over, I returned to my office and picked up a memorandum of the features that will make life worth living for those who are going to read August TECHNICAL

WORLD. I then saw in a flash why we could not print questionable advertisements, even if every one else in the publishing business agreed that it was all right.

For example, in this August number there is to be a very interesting account of an invention which does away with the unspeakable atrocities in the Peruvian Rubber Fields. This wonderful device releases many men from a bondage far worse than our Southern slavery system, and harnesses up electricity as a substitute for human labor. That's a great work, a step in the right direction. Yet would it be consistent for us to print this sort of a story, and then run in our advertising pages matter that may bring many people under the dominion of something worse than slavery, a lie that exploits helpless sufferers and induces them to waste their slender resources for that which is of no value?

Wouldn't that be just as bad as it is for an officeholder to accept wages for protecting the public interest and then to accept bribes from corporations who want to swindle that same public?

Then there is to be another story somewhat similar to this one. It is called "A Machine That Came Back" and it tells of another way in which thousands of men have been released

from the bondage of grinding, ill-paid labor and it constitutes another reason why we cannot consistently accept fake medical advertisements.

So much for that; but fake medical advertisements are not the only sort that we refuse. We refuse fake advertising matter of every sort. Why would it also be inconsistent for us to accept the advertisement of, say, Wild Cat Land Companies? Again you will find the answer in our August Table of Contents. We publish an account, full of human interest, which tells about a young man who graduated from an Agricultural College and, rather than take a good position and a sure thing, decided to go into the farming business for himself. You will probably want to read every word of this story, but whether you do or not you can readily see that it would be extremely inconsistent for us to print on one page a story with the genuine thrill of achievement and then on another page to print the advertisement of a concern that was designed to swindle the very people whom the story inspires. In other words on one page we would stimulate you to try a little farming yourself, perhaps, and on another we would be doing you out of your money and all opportunity for success.

In this same August magazine there is to be a story about a Catholic Priest down in Arkansas who is doing a really tremendous work towards solving the immigration problem. Now, would it be consistent for us to tell about this grand work on one page, to encourage the immigrant to get out of the big cities and become a real producer, and then on another page to set a trap for him so that there will be nothing left to him, nothing ahead of him, but a life of sweatshop labor?

These are just a few of the glaring inconsistencies you would find in our August magazine if we should accept the fake advertisements which continue to find a place in many reputable publications. Furthermore in a broader sense, every article we print would be a veritable reproach to us were we to yield to the temptation of this most insidious form of bribery.

Why? Because nearly every article we print tells of something that is being done or attempted for the benefit of humanity, something that is designed to make this world a better, more agreeable place for you and for me and for those who will follow us.

Just let me mention briefly one or two additional examples. A man in Pittsburgh has found a way of improving his city's transportation facilities. That is something for the benefit of every citizen of Pittsburgh and for the benefit of those in other cities, as the example this man sets may easily be followed elsewhere.

A bright young woman has invented an automatic gas cut-off so that firemen, and tenants too, will not have the added danger of asphyxiation to face in burning buildings. Of course, we hope for the day when fires will be a relic of the dark ages, but as long as they continue to menace us it is a fine thing for people to be seeking means to make them less dangerous. That means the saving of lives. Fake medical advertisements mean the throwing away of lives that otherwise might be saved-so that again you see these two elements can't possibly be mixed in the same magazine.

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I hope that I have made my point and that you understand now as clearly as I do why we must always keep our advertising pages clean, no matter what the cost. I am not exactly boasting of our virtues, as the illustration at the head of this article might suggest. am rather showing that with us this course is in a way compulsory. If you are not convinced, buy the August magazine, read these articles, and you are sure to get my point of view. But even if you don't care a continental about my point of view, buy the August magazine anyway because it is mighty interesting for its own sake-not only by reason of the articles I have summarized, but also on account of the fifteen or twenty other features of importance that I have not even mentioned-and don't forget that there are sumptuous illustrations.

The August magazine will be worth both your money and your time.

them weighing tons, are too heavy to be moved readily by the monitor's stream, and must first be blasted, then carried out of the way by hand.

By using plenty of cable, and placing a long traveling arm on the main staff, a quarter-acre of bedrock can be cleaned of its boulders with one setting of the derrick, the big stones being lifted and dropped at the edge of the diggings.

Instead of a donkey engine, power is supplied for operating the derrick by a portable water motor. The motor gets its energy from the main pipe line that supplies water under heavy pressure for the monitors. Like the derrick, it is a mine-made affair.

As it is necessary to move the motor from point to point, it is connected to the main pipe line by a long fire hose.

BUCKING BOULDERS BY DERRICK

A PRACTICAL miner

in southern Oregon has solved the boulder problem by installing a derrick. "Bucking boulders," as the placer miners call it, is usually the heaviest and most disagreeable feature of surface mining. The huge rocks, some of

WATER MOTOR USED TO SUPPLY POWER FOR "BUCKING BOULDERS"

which is the design and arrangement of the entrance and exits. Not only are the boarding passengers separated from but the entering and leaving passengers the alighting passengers on the street, within the car are segregated.

There is a stairway for the passengers entering the upper deck and a ing it. A passenger leaving the upper separate stairway for passengers leavdeck and going down the exit stairway finds himself at the exit door, ready to leave the car in one step.

This car, which is forty-eight feet in length and seven feet in width, seats one hundred and twelve passengers.

BIRD HIDES IN OWN PLUMAGE

THE argus pheasant here illustrated,

a native of Borneo and the Celebes, is the most perfect specimen of what the naturalists term "protective color