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...submarine shaped object is a tank for the study of the physiological effects of high and low pressures. It is of circular form, 35 feet long and eight in diameter, and is of half-inch welded steel. Pressures as high as 60 pounds per square inch and as low as those found at an altitude of 25,000 feet can be obtained, and gases of any desired mixture, humidity, and temperature can be fed in any desired amount to the pressure chambers, of which there are two, entered by means of a lock arrangement in the center of the tank...
Warmakers Welcome. Although in course of years the Quaker has come to represent t'ie very personification of the pacifist spirit, the circular explains that militarists are not excluded from membership in the society...
This point and others made in the circular were explained by the fact that the Quakers have never formulated any fixed creed. They have no body authorized "to dictate to the members as to doctrine or conduct...
Addressed to "the scientifically minded," the circular declared that it did not seek the attention of those satisfied with "the Apostles or the Nicene Creed, the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth of Jesus, and the verity of the miracle stories of the old and new Testament." God goes by many another name among Quakers: "the Seed, the Inner Light, the In-speaking Voice, the Christ within, the Word . . . The Hidden Dynamo, The Super-self, The World-father." And "religion as we understand it has nothing to fear from science...
...Evidently the Rev. Dr. Malcolm James Mc-Leod, pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, in New York, had not seen the circular. In his Thanksgiving sermon he criticized Hoover for going south on a dreadnought. Said he: "A Quaker on a battleship looks like a cannon in a parlor...