Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1923 — Page 4

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SHEARING THE INNOCENT SF ALL the money lost in Indiana by “blue sky” stock schemes and financial failures during the past year could ;aped into one sum, the total would stagger the public. Millions have been sunk into thin-air corporations. Dividends on some company stocks have been paid out of additional sale of stock. While many corporations, such as a glass casket company, which started to sell stock in this eity, have been prevented by local interests from taking the public’s savings; others have succeeded in their plundeh and then “failed” because of an alleged business depression or poor management. What has been the cost to the Nation during the past year? The total amount in one year has been estimated from one to two billions of dollars. The Department of Justice at Washington calculates the loss last year in spurious oil securities alone to be $1,250,000,000. What a price! The total sum, it has been figured by the National Surety Company, would pay for a'paved highway 1,800 miles across the United States with 50-foot building lots on either side, a house erected on every lot at a cost of $5,000, furniture provided for each house at an expense of $3,000, and $2,000 provided for expenses of %ach family during the first year. Have you paid anything for this imaginary highway, the lots, the houses and the furniture? Even the defraying of these expenses would leave a residue of approximately $50,000,000. The paved highway with its double row of homes would extend from the Atlantic coast westward across the States of Rhode Island, Connecticut. New York. Ohio and through Indiana! If that could have been accomplished by the Nation’s bill to “blue sky” losses, WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE IN INDIANA? ADVERTISING IS A LOCOMOTIVE | A recent trip to the Pacific coast, William Wrigley, Jr., 1 I chewing gum manufacturer, was urged by a friend to reduce his unusually heavy advertising appropriation and permit his business to continue on the momentum gained by past expenditures. Wrigley's reply was that the train on which he and his friend were traveling seemed to be going along pretty well. “But,” he added, “how far do you think we would go if they took the locomotive away?” Wrigley has never wavered in his belief in advertising; he has always looked upon it as a locomotive that was pulling his business onward. The story of his success may be summed up in the fact that the Wrigley Company has announced a stock melon of $50,000,000 will be divided among stockholders as a Christmas gift. The Times is glad to point out that the Wrigley Company is one of its advertisers. There’s a lesson here for any wise merchant or business man. TALK ABOUT GOING IT! SleveN-LEAGUE boots get nowhere in covering ground. ____] Scientific experiment beats them to a standstill. Comes now Prof. Georges Louvel, distinguished French writer and scientist, with demonstrations that the odor o*f a billy goat has high therapeutic value in treatment of lung and throat troubles, even tuberculosis. Professor Louvel points out that the goat is about the only animal immune from tuberculosis and that the children of Israel were free from lung troubles, being devoted to sleeping with goats in their tents. Dr. Louvel will establish a sanitarium, with a redolent billy goat in bed with every patient, if he can secure the goats. He will have no trouble in finding folks who are willing to try anything once, even unlimited goat. It is not possible that this goat odor cure will become a “rage,” as many other “cures” do, but the slightest possibility of it is to be dreaded. Just think of lying in bed with a billy goat’s cold feet and waking up to cough in an odor that could be used as an ironing’ board or as a disinfectant in a soap factory.

“BLUE LAW” SETBACK rFTTRST test of “blue law” enforcement at Frankfort, Ind., in--1 * volving more than twenty business men for keeping open on Sunday, has dealt a deathblow to such enforcement. That the law fails to have popular support is given as the principal reason for its non-enforcement. Public opinion is the link between the public and law enforcement. The fate of the “blue law” in Fiankfort clearly proved this. Need of an independent conscience in deciding affairs of morality is emphasized by changing views of virtue and propriety. Fifty years ago it was not uncommon to hear sermons against the reading of Shakespeare. The actor’s profession was regarded by many as a Mephistopheles cloak hiding the hoofs and tail of the devil. Billiards and bowling were once to be found only as a lure to the bar of taverns and saloons. Cards were used only for gambling. Sunday recreation was an ppen challenge of infidelity to the church. What, then, is the answer to the “blue laws?” An ancient Chinese precept reads, “There is no invariable model of virtue—a supreme regard to whatever is good gives the only model of it.” The Man of Galilee did not criticise passing customs. A child can readily memorize all He said about conduct. All His appeals, were to common conscience which abides always. He might have summoned all up in saying, “Let God set your judgment; then do what seems best.” It is evident that a custom of morality for today sets no permanent standard. Every one must judge for himself in all these matters. ITALY and Spain are devising ways to keep the United States out of South America. One good way might be to contribute to the high tariff campaign fund. RESEARCH foundation “to ascertain the essential facts relating to the farming industry” has been established by Searsftoebuck. The facts, plenty of farmers will inform the investigators, are that the farmer gets too little for what he’s got and has to pay too much for what he’s got to get.

FIGHT OVER MAYFIELD IS PROMISED Texas Solon Denies Charge of ,'Newberryism’ as Claimed by Opponents, By ROBERT TALLEY 7WTI ASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—With Yy the opening of Congress only a few. days away, Washington is turning its eyes again to the contest to unseat Senator Earle B. Mayfield of which promises to be one of the most bitter battles in Senate history. Against Mayfield is the charge that he “bought his seat” by expending nearly $200,000 in the Texas primary last year, despite the legal limit of SIO,OOO fixed by State law. In Texas, Democratic nomination is equivalent to election. Mayfield Is not accused of violating any Federal law, but the Senate is the sole judge of the qualifications of its members, and it may oust a man because of the cut of his coat or the color of his hair, if it desires. Furthermore. the case has a political aspect as an election year is approaching and Republicans doubtless will not pass up this opportunity to atone for the sins of Newberry. Klan Issue Enters Into it. too. enters the Ku-Klux Klan issue, for Senator Mayfield Is said to be a Klansman, although he claims he resigned from the Austin kiavern before election. It is contended that, as a Klansman, he took an oath superior to his oath as United States Senator. Forty-two years old, a Methodist, and of the sort who likes to tell everybody about It, Mayfield was little known outside of Texas until he was elected to the Senate In 1922. On election night, throughout Texas the Klan celebrated his victory with bonfires. At the regular election in November, George Paddy, a young Houston attorney, ran against him as the coalition candidate of the anti-Klan and Republican forces. Paddy’s name was kept off the ballot and he was badly beaten. It was in his name the contest. charging “Newberryism,” was filed with the Senate. The charge that Mayfield expended S2OOOOO to win his seat is yet to be ! proved. However, a Texas gramil Jury, during one of the numerous elec# tion suits, found Mayfield guilty of violating the primary law by spending $40,000 when the legal limit was $lO.000. Was Rail Commissioner When he made the race. Mayfield was a State railroad commissioner and it is charged that he used this office ' to intimidate corporations, particularly oil companies, to contribute to his campaign fund. Senator Mayfield, elected but not yet sworn in. says the protest filed against him ’‘ls false from beginning to end.” and that “the charge that I Intimidated the oil industry is rtdicu lous.” “The contest is.” he explains, “merely a continuation of the campaign of misrepresentation and abuse on the part of my political opponents to injure me personally and to lessen the responsibility of my carrying out my pledges so the people and no special Interest during my term.”

Indiana Sunshine

Samuel Oakes, a Bartholomew County farmer, went to the home of a neighbor. Alfred McEwen, and Jokingly offered to buy some "nubbins" from McEwen for cow feed, representing that his own corn was too large for the purpose. McEwen didn't think it any joke. He filed a complaint. Oakes was arrested and will have a chance to explain his sense of humor in court. A whisky spring is said to he the discovery of William Julian of Boonville. While wandering around in the hills near the town he noticed a peculiar smell. He tasted the water. Thinking it had a kick, he sent the water to a chemist, who said the water had an alcohloic content. Julian refuses to tell its location and no one has been able to quench their thirst at the site of the mythical liquor law violator. Decatur has a chance to obtain a real grizzly bear, but can’t decide what to do with it. E. Gulick of Malaga, Washington, has written Mayor DeVoss. saying that he wanted a home for his pet bear. The mayor doesn’t know just why Decatur was chosen, and even though Gulick Is willing to give the animal away, says he doesn’t know whether or not they have use for a “pet" bear running around the town. 'Colds’ The common “cold” is recognized as a menace by Uncle Sam’s Public Health Service, which starts studying "colds” on a big scale. The goal, of course, Is to stamp out eventually these annoying and dangerous epidemics. It’s a relief and pleasure to read about such common-sense action, after so much medical vaudeville about monkey glands and so on. Situation to date was approximately summed up by the country doctor, who satirically said. "It takes three weeks to cure a cold with medicine and twenty-one days without.”

Heard in the Smoking Room

| y I HEARD a good one on Dr. | Henry Van Dyke, the preachL— 1 er-author-diplomat,” said the dry smoker from New Jersey. “Also, it was a good joke on a teacher—one of these machine teachers who is always drilling his pupils—ln a big public school. Fire drills were the pet diversions of the teacher. He not only marched the children out In order, time after time, and day after day, but he was constantly endeavoring to fix In their minds just what they should do in case of fire. ‘What would you do if I told you there was a fire In this building?' he would ask them, and they would reply, sing-son*, true

THE IN Di AN AEOLUS TIMES

UNUSUAL PEOPLE He’s .Modern Samson

Bu NEA Service ONCA CITY, Okla.. Nov. 26. William H. McFadden of this city doesn’t profess to be another Samson, but he has just returned from an adventure of which

that Biblical strong man would have been proud. McFadden, beset by two bears while on a hunting trip, shot one and choked another to death. Asa souvenir of this experience he Rhows a hand wound from the animal’s teeth, during he tussle. . A more prized souvenir of the

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adventure Is a live bear, which McFadden and his guide captured. The cries of this I bear brought the other two and resulted in the struggle out of which McFadden came victor. /f}OM SIMS -A -/- Says T~T| EIGHBORS are people who \ live near you. You wish some would move and some wish you would move. t_ Nelghbors are nice people who bring you chicken when they can't cat another bite of It. Neighbors are sarcastic people who smile gently when you sa'y you never fight with your wife Neighbors are crazy people who tend to your business and fine people who tend to their business. Neighbors are people who cook cabbage ' ttltu the windows open when you are going to have com- I pany. A Neighbors are funny people who come over when you are sick and tell you how sick they used to be. Neighbor women are people with their hair in papers who come over to borrow a cup of sugar. Neighbor men are people in shirtsleeves who explain why you should have used a little more yeast. We don’t know why neighbors art j so foolish and neighbors don’t know why you act so foolish. Never judge neighbors by what 1 you see hanging on their clothes i tines. Shake hands with a collector and invite him in so the neighbors will not know he is a collector. Treat your neighbors nice If you didn’t have any neighbors your neighborhood would be deserted. j Never get too mad at your neighbors. Ver> r often your enemies this week are your friends next week. Never tell the neighbors too much. Quite often your friends this week are your enemies next week.

Family Fun

Ought to Know A lady talking of spiritualism said she had lately got into communication with her deceased husband, who had asked for cigarettes, hut, she said, “I am at a loss to know where to send them.” “Well, ma’am,” said one of the company, "yo ought to know if he didn't ask for matches!”—Reyonlds’ Newspaper. The Beautiful Rain A teacher asked one of her pupils to write a brief story about the min. After much thought the boy pro duced the following: “What does the rain say to the dust? ’l’m on to you and your name is mud!”—Chicago Trihune. One on the Baby "We must get a nurse for the baby.” “A nurse! What we want Is a night watchman!”—Film 'Fun, Read to the Baker “There is sand in this bread.” “Yes. That’s to keep the butter from sliding off.”—Darmouth Jack-

Tongue Tips

Israel Zangwill, satirist, and poet scoring our immigration laws: “Even Christ himself could not get into our country because He would have to admit He had once been In jail.” Julius Kruttschnltt, Southern Pacific Railway: "The public wants adequate service. For such service the railways must have a fair return. This is the hope which the new public attitude brings to railway management. But the restoration of confidence In the railroads and stabilization of their credit must be of slow growth. This will be the result of a long period of experience and the consistent following of a fair, equitable and definite policy.”

to formula and In chorus, as he had provided they shoujd. Finally, he got them where their reply to his fire query would roll off their tongues with astonishing glibness. Well, one day Dr. v an Dyke was to lecture at the school. The teacher, by way of introducing Van Dyke, said, ‘Now, children, what would you do if I told you that Dr. Henry Van Dyke was to lecture here today?’ Instantly 300 childish voices answered In sing-song: “ ‘We would rise promptly, put away our books, and then quietly and without disorder, but as quickly as possible, file out to the street.”

AMERICAN TAX LAW IS ANTIQUATED Declares Change in Land Nationalization Will Be of Great Benefit to Farmer, This is the seventh of a series of eight articles on the agricultural problem written by Herbert Quick for the Indian'anolis Times. This article is on taxation. By HERBERT QUICK. P l- “ROBABLY my readers are astonished when 1 assert nothing L—J but anew system of taxation or the sweeping system of land nationalization will afford ' the relief which agriculture must have in America. They may think that either suggestion is a perfectly absurd and revolutionary one. Such things in America! Perfectly insane! Think a moment. We are in this world. The world is changing. We find our basic industry—agriculture—going down to ruin. This means the same ruin that has always come to people who disintegrate under economic evils. And this is w r hat has brought changes in the land systems of all the countries W'hich have been upset by recent convulsions—convulsions which are not over, but which have Just begun. I do not believe in land nationalization Yet that is 'just the scheme which is easiest put across by politicians struggling with mere poultices on the ulcer they are called upon to treat. Go to the nations which have remodeled their institutions, from Turkey to Poland, and clear across the old Russian Empire to the Pacific, and you will find that the patent medicine which has been applied has been the scheme of land nationalization. It Inheres in the program of the second, party in size and power in Great Britain. Will Not Work And yet land nationalization, as it i would have to be carried out under ; American institutions, would not ! work. For the land would lyvve to be paid for in taxation, and the burden of taxation would be as hard to bear as the burden of rent it would replace. The mere proposal to buy all the land and place it in the hands of users of land vyould excite rdidicule. On the other hand, the imposition of all taxation on the value of the bare land, exclusive of Improvements, Is something which could be done without any basic changes in our institutions. It would cheapen land and make it a thing which the workers could afford to use; for it would make the value of the improvements the purchase price. It would make no change in the titles. Land would be sold, inherited and passed from hand to hand, just as now. , It would take from no man any value which he has personally created. ] All lanct values are creations of so- | clety: It is only the improvements j which are individual creations, and j they would be freed from taxation. Occupy Cheap Land Under this system the universal policy of land users would be to occupy land of as xmall value as possible and place on it the maximum of improvements. This means more houses, livestock, barns, drainage, fertilizers and personal property, and fewe half used or idle areas. And it is Just. What society creates Vielongs to society in taxation it* It cares to take it; and our present system of taking tfrom the people a part of what ’hoy Individually create is wrong. Render unto the Individual ’he things which are the individual’s, and unto the collectivity the things which are the collectivity’s. And the values taken in taxation are never paid for through taxation The very suggestion is absurd. The ! cheapening of land would seein a hard- 1 ship to some, and to some it, of course, really would be a hardship; but we, who have taken slaves from their owners and a continent from a crown without compensation ought not to shrink from redeeming sooiety by cheapening land through taxation. Not if our life depends on it —and it does. The conservative citizen has by this time, I suppose, ceased to read these letters, or Is Just looking them over to see what new enormity I shall suggest. And yet, hoping some of them may still honor me with their notice, I shall write this last paragraph or so to the conservative citizen whose land will be cheapened and probably made to represent a loss when my plan Is carried out.

Plan Is Conservative Compared with what will almost certainly come irpon us In a generation or so If this taxation plan is not adopted, It is truly conservative. It conserves what is good and destroys what is bad. It takes from you, Mr. Conservative Citizen, nothing which Individual enterprise or labor has created, but only what society as a whole has produced—the unearned Increment of land values. It would make useless and unecessary most or aU of our taxes on Improvements, on personal property, oil goods In commerce, and on Incomes. Perhaps all of them: anyhow, most of them. We should have to wait and see whether or not economic rent would amount to all the revenues of all kinds which we require; but it would at once, In the enormous Impulse which would be given to improvements, create anew era of prosperity, the benefits of which to most of the conservative citizens would be vastly greater than their profits present or prospective from the value of the bare land.

A Thought

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.— Col. 3:21. • ♦ • ORRECTTION does much, but ( encouragement does more. Em __J couragement after censure Is as the sun after a shower. —Goethe. Her Father, Alas “What did you say to father when you asked him?” “I told him that I considered myself a self-made man. That I began at the foot.” ‘‘Yes, yes, and then what?” ‘He began with his.’'—Detroit News.

Hitting One Nail Right On the Head

QUESTIONS Ask— The Times ANSWERS

You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by wntlnf to the Indianapolis Times' Washington Bureau, 1322 NVw York Ave.. Washington, D. C., enclosing 2 cents In stamps for rsaJy. Medical. legal and mental advice* cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will rpeeive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters aro confidential .—Edi torPid Martin Luther marry a nun? He married Catherine von Bora, an ex-nun. Was AbrahAm Lincoln ever married? Was he ever disappointed in love? Lincoln married Miss Mary Todd. Ills first love Is said to have !een Ann Rutledge, who died of brain fever. Who composed the grand opera, ‘‘William Tell"? The music was composed by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini; the libretto was by Etienne Jouy. The words, however, were so unusual that Romsini had Armand Marrast rewrite the scene of the meeting of the conspirators. Is there a negro saint? Baint Benedict, the Moor, is a negro saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He lived 1526-1589, was the son of alaVes from Ethiopia, was canonized in 1807, and his feast is celebrated April 3. What are the Greater Antilles? The four largest islands in the West Indies: Cuba, Jamaica. Haiti and Porto Rico, and a few smaller islands neJr their coasts. How may flowers be colored red and blue? One method of coloring flowers Is to cut them with long stems and let them stand for a while in water containing dye of the desired color. There are some species of dry, strawlike flowers, which ore merely dipped in dye. How can one tell cypress from white pine lumber after they are both sawed and planed? In cypress, the markings of rings are closer and the wood shades from a yellowish to a light tan. In pine the rings are larger and not so close and the wood shades from cream color to pink. v Who said, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes"? Benjamin Franklin in a letter to M. Leroy.

A reader of this column asks for a suggested list of appropriate Christmas gifts for men, women, boys and girls. A bulletin of suggestions for such gifts will be mailed to any other reader requesting It. \Vrite to our Washington Bureau, enclosing 2 cents in postage stamps for reply.

Where is Dahomey? This is a French colony of West Africa, between Togoland on the west and the British possessions of Lagos and Nigeria on the east, and with the French military territories on the north. Who was Niobe? The beau-ideal of grief. After losing her twelve children, she was changed Into stone, from which ran water. What are the three islands in the English channel having each a different breed of cattle? Alderney, Alderney cattle; Guernsey, Guernsey cows; Jersey, Jersey cows. What kind of tree was the Charter Oak? A white oak. What the best bait for the various kinds of bass? Rock bass: Small minnows, white grubs, earthworms, grasshoppers, crickets, small crawfish and frogs. Black bass: Minnows, crawfish, small frogs, grasshoppers and crickets. Striped bass: Shiners, minnows and pieces of fish. White bass: Live minnows, grubs and earthworms. What did Dempsey and Firpo receive on the recent fight and what were the taxes on their receipts? Dempsey received $475,000 and Firpo $125,000 in the recent fight; the Federal tax on the Dempsey-Firpo receipts amounted to $180,074.80 and the State tax to $7,197.

The Difference

BY BERTON BIiALEY Bill plays pool with a skill uncanny Learned by practicing year on year, No break of the game can get his nanny. His hand is steadv, his brain is clear. He plans and studies his mode of playing With concentration on every shot. He's alwa>s figuring, doping, weighing Which chance is proper, and which Is not. Yet pool is merely Bill’s recreation, A game he plays when the workhours end. An office job is his real vocation. On THAT his room and his board depend. Since that is the task by which he’s living You’d think he’d tend to it, as a rule And give It at least the thought he’s giving To educating himself in pool. But no—Bill dawdles and shirks and fuddles, He views his job with a listless eye, He loafs and stalls and he fakes and muddles And merely figures on “getting by"; Yet still he growls at his poor position. His “rotten boss” and his “measley pay,” Though all he needs is the same ambition Applied to work that he gives to play! (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)

What Editors Are Saying

Clean-up 4 (Richmond Item) We need a thorough reorganization of republican leadership, here in Indiana. We need new blood. If the men who have betrayed the party haven’t common sense enough to soak in that plain truth for themselves, their frieqds should bring It home to them. A general resignation of the membership of the present State committee would be a very wise and a very timely thing to happen, in the near future. If ever a political party in Indiana needed to clean house It is the Republican party, just now. Slighted ! (Elwood Call Leader) Governor McCray will appoint three members of the Indiana World War Memorial commission to succeed the ones whose terms expires Dec. 10, but Elwood never gets any appointments. • • • Untrue (Muncie Evening Press) Os course that report about Jack Dempsey being killed by an automobile was untrue. If Firpo couldn’t do it, what chance would on automobile have? Repentance (Logansport Pharos Tribune) Report is that someone broke into the Poplar Grove Church near Kokomo apd stole the pulpit Bible. The report adds: "There is no clew to the thief.” No effort should be made to find the individual who took the book. If the man who took the book had made known his desire for a Bible thfe church would have given him the book with no necessity for taking it by stealth. Let the Individual alone, and If he will just read the book he secured he will In due time return it and bring himself along with it.

Know Your City Indianapolis is within sixty miles of the center of population of the United States, as designated by the U. S. Census Bureau, according to “Activities,” Chamber of Commerce, publication which also says: “Indianapolis has a floating population of more than 20,000 dally.”

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Pennsy’s View To the Editor of The Times Our attention has been called through our general superintendent in Indiana; oils, Mr. W. C. Downing, to an editorial published in your paper “Now It Can Be Shown.” This editorial discussed the settlement made by the Pennsylvania Railroad with the Government, and stated among other things that our company “paid the Government $90,000,000, because the Government had ‘over maintained’ the road during the period of Government sendee.” It is regrettable our company’s settlement with the Government has at times been misunderstood. This has probably been due in considerable degree so the fact that the matter is a technical one, involving complicated features of accounting. The figure of $90,000,000 was in no sense an allowance for ’over maintenance by the United States Railroad Administration. It represents the net settlement for the use of our railroad and all transactions between our system and the Government during the entire period of Federal control and includes full payment to to the Government for over $200,000,000 of capital account expenditures for permanent additions and extensions to the property and equipment during the war period which were made by the Government and temporarily financed by it. Under the Federal control contract our company was obligated to reimburse the Government for these capital expenditures, or, to state the matter less technically, to buy from the Government the new property which these expenditures represented. It is important to understand that these . expenditures were not for up-keep, or maintenance, but for additional . facilities required to meet the war traffic. Asa matter of fact our company’s claims of under maintenance during the period of Federal control were specifically recognized and established, and we were allowed under maintenance by the director general to the extent that, in his Judgment, he could pay in accordance with the terms of the contract, the director general’s regulations, and the decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission. These claims, as thus / established and allowed, were duly credited to the company in the final settlement. We believe that we were fairly entitled to a greater sum for under maintenance than what tqp received. I trust the foregoing will make clear the nature of the $90,000,000 payment, namely, that it is a net settlement for all items of every character on either side between the Government and the company, and that far from representing payment for over maintenance, It embraces allowances for many established Items of under maintenance. A. COUNTY, Vice President, Pennsylvania Railroad System. . ?

Science

Recent meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Liverpool, England, and the American Association, at Los Angeles, Cal., recognized the growth of the popular demand for scientific knowledge and took steps to cooperate with the public. A survey of public libraries has shown that people are demanding more books on scientific and semi-scientific subjects than ever before and that this demand ranks almost equal with popular fiction. The British association has started a movement to make papers read at their meetings more Intelligible to laymen. It is pointed out that while this is difficult for the scientist, because it compels him to use terms as foreign to his mode of expression as his mode is to the layman’s, still the simpler the language used the wider the circle of students. Edward Llveing, B. A., eminent English scientist, says: “There should be cooperation of scientists and trained writers, who can still preserve the attitude of the average man, In giving the public readable articles on scientific subjects.”