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School Building Victory fpn NE of the difficulties in the way of the [O] school building program for Indianapolis has been removed with the opinion of Judge Clinton H. Givan that the citizen of Woodruff Place who sought to block the program was not entitled to an injunction. < With the temporary restraining order dissolved, the board members let contracts with architects for six new grade school buildings. The board also is taking up the sale of the present High School and plans for advertising e, bond issue for the new Shortridge. Thus the school building program, which has so many times been blocked, is again on its way. People of Indianapolis who have the welfare of the children of the city at heart hope it can now go forward without further interference. It is to be hoped that the new school board majority, which takes office the first of the year, will go ahead with the program without undue delay. There may be differences between the new board and the old board, but there should be no differences on the question of the necessity for adequate school facilities in Indianapolis at the earliest possible moment. Mr. Slattery Is Out I significant event took place very quietly |A| the other day. The term of John L. Slattery, United States District Attorney for Montana, expired. Slattery wanted to be reappointed. This Slattery was the man wh</ secured the Montana indictment against Senator Burton K. Wheeler, just before last year’s election. He is the man of whom it was testified before the Senate by those who took part in “framing” Wheeler: “Well, you know we made Slattery go through because we had so much on him that he had to go through for us.” He is the man who was investigated by the Department of Justice on charges of persistent refusal to enforce prohibition laws. President Coolidge refused to send Slattery’s name to the Senate for reappointment. Instead he appointed Wellington D. Rankin, a liberal Republican, a personal friend of Wheeler, and at one time, at the instance of Slattery, a target for criticism by the same grand jury from which the Wheeler indictment was procured. The Senate confirmed Rankin. All of which amounts to a repudiation on the part of the President and the Senate of Slattery, his grand jury, and the whole Wheeler persecution. It is not too much to hope, perhaps, that the indictment will serve also to illumine the path of those who are still trying to carry that persecution through in the District of Columbia.

LEGION DRIVE GETS GOOD START

mHE Indianapolis Times congratulates the American Legion on the success of the preliminary organization work preparatory to its city-wide drive for members. \ May all Legionnaires have a happy Christmas and may they have

the best of luck during the new year. Although the official campaign for members has not yet started, more than three hundred veterans have

joined the organization during the last few weeks, according to S. A. Bishop, Seventh district committee-man-elect. * After the holidays the campaign will be undertaken under full steam .according to Bishop. John H. Holiday post, leader in getting new members, was honored again with announcement that llarry <Buzz) Martin has been appointed' adjutant of the National Guard of honor for the national convention in Paris in 1927. All of the 125 members must be at least six feet six inches tall and weigh between 180 and 200 pounds. Thirteen Indiana posts now have exceeded their 1925 totals for 1926 (membership. They are at Tipton, Bedford, Huntingburg, Portland, Akron, Rockville, Hope, Huntingburg No. 221, Corydon, Angola, Warsaw, Jasonville and Michigan City. Holiday post leads in Indianapolis. Roland B. Daley, who has been prominent in activities of Bruce P. Robinson post, has been elected commander for 1926. Other officers: Harold E. Pursel, senior vice commander; Wilbur C. Patterson, junior vice commander; Elmore Bryant, adjutant; Russell R. Pence, finance officer, and William Mayer, Willard Boyle and Paul Beam, executive committee members. The post Sunday conducted funeral services at Noblesville for Cord McNally, a former member, who died at the Methodist Hospital here. The Indiana Juegion, forty-sixth among the States in membership flbr

That Hang-the-Kaiser Complex ryTIIIEN the World War came to its sudden W[ en( j and a sullen Germany stood properly manacled, leg-ironed and helpless before the victorious allies, they gave her the third degree to make her confess she and her allies were solely responsible for the havoc. Today, six and a half years later, there is a growing inclination, in allied countries, to revoke those clauses in the treaty of Versailles which perpetuate Germany’s forced confession. One hundred prominent Frenchmen began the movement by signing a petition and now 100 equally eminent Britishers, the United Press tells us, have followed suit—among them being Arnold Bennett, Forbes-Robertson, H. G. Wells. Lady Gladstone, Israel Zangwill and Bernard Shaw. Gradually the world is recovering its sanity, as this symptom shows. Our courts, like the British, French, Belgian and other civilized courts, do cot recognize confessions obtained by torture. Germany’s confession was written out for her by the allies and she had to sign on the dotted line else see the war renewed. That meant invasion, with victorious armies sweeping over old and youn in a steam-roller march on Berlin. Os course Germany signed but her confession meant nothing. It did not change her point of view, nor the world’s point of view, by a single jot. All clung to their original beliefs—that Germany was guilty of starting the war, or not guilty, as the case might be. And ever since the' only effect of that forced confession has been merely to help keep wartime animosities alive. Fixing war guilt, it is true, was partly by way of preamble to making Germany pay the damages. But a forced confession did not strengthen the case against her. The mere affirmation by the allies that Germany was to blame, and that she would therefore have to pay, would have Teen just as convincing, and quite as just, a basis for reparations. As for “publicly arraigning William II of Hohenzollern” before a high tribunal composed of allied judges and hanging him for his crimes, as demanded, that was, of course, plain silly, though entirely comprehensible. A man, fighting for his life, is scarcely responsible at the time for what he says or does. Neither is a nation. “Hang the Kaiser” was born of wartime psychology. Likewise third-degreeinig Germany. The hang-the-Kaiser complex vanished almost before the ink dried on Germany’s signature at Versailles. Now America, whose Secretary of State Robert Lansing was chairman of the “war guilt” commission at Paris, might well join with France and Britain to remove that other equal, though less glaring, absurdity.

1925, Is now running a close race with Kansas for second place in 1926 membership at national headquarters. A determined effort is being made, it was stated, to go into the first place position, now held by Illinois, on or before Jan. 1. With slightly less than 14,000 in the ranks for 1925, the State department of the Legion expects to enroll not less than 26,400 for 1926, a quota set for Indiana by national headquarters. The expansion in membership will result in a broadening of the activities of the organization in this State, it was said. Chief among The American Legion’s accomplishments for 1925 are the raising of well towards $4,500,000 of the $5,000,000 endowment fund for disabled veterans and orphans of the war, comprehensive development of the Legion’s children s welfare service and numerous improvements made by the Government on Legion recommendation in its rehabilitation work for the disabled, according to National Commander John R. McQuigg. Other Important activities for the year were the working out of a Legion peace program, formulation of plans for a junior world’s baseball series, preliminary preparations for holding the 1927 national convention in Paris and the occupying of the new national headquarters building. Two cottages were opened during the year at the children’s billet operated by the Legion at Otter Lake, Michigan. A $35,000 hospitaladministration unit was started there. A billet was opened at Clarksboro, New Jersey, and another was built at Legionville, near Independence, Kansas. It is now ready to be occupied. Approximately 200 children were cared for during the year by the Children’s Welfare Division of the national organziation, to say nothing of the work done by Legion departments and posts. The Legion Auxiliary cared for more than 3,000 children. More than fifty children passed through the temporary care given in a billet and were re-es-tablished in their own homes when the family difficulties had been solved and the parents were again able to care for the children. Decentralization of the United

States Veterans’ Bureau, so that the claims of the disabled are heard and awards are made in the field in direct contact with the veteran himself, was the greatest forward step In the Government’s care of the disabled since the establishment of the bureau in 1921. Another far-reaching Improvement in rehabilitation work was the establishment by the Government on Legion recommendation of two diagnostic centers where particularly baffling cases are sent for observation and diagnosis by leading specialists. At the instance of the Legion a guardianship service was set up by the bureau to protect the interests of incompetent veterans, minor orphans and aged and incompetent persons who are beneficiaries of the bureau and hundreds of whom had been defrauded by their guardians of money paid for their use by the Government. The 'Legion joined vigorously with the guard Anahip service to investigate the care land treatment of these unfortunates. In the legislative field the Legion succeeded irt 1925 In getting from Congress grants of aid relief for disabled veterans totaling $345,313,000. ITALY NOT TO CHANGE Won’t Become Empire Says Indianapolis Consular Agent. Dr. Vincent A. Lapenta, 2424 Park Ave., Royal Consular Regent of Italy, today announced rumors published regarding the contemplated project of transferlng the Kingdom of Italy into an Empire are absurd and without foundation. Dr. Lapenta received the word from the Royal Italian Embassy. “It is obvious that a change of title to the State would bring no advantages, the greatness of a nation being based on actual qualities and not on designations of words,” he said. BUILDING BOOM AIDED Standard Oil Company to Erect SIOO- - Structure. The building boom of Indianapolis took another upward swing today with announcement the Standard Oil Company will build a SIOO,OOO office building at Eleventh St. and Capitol Ave. The structure, which is to be three stories with a basement, will be used exclusively for company offices.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

IT MIGHT HAPPEN IN INDIANAPOLIS SWO children were injured and 117 persons—pupils, teachers and others —barely escaped with their lives when a temporary school building:, an old barn, near Huntington, .Ind., burned the day before Christmas. It was the last day the old structure was to be used for school purposes. A horrible catastrophe was averted by a very narrow squeak. Just blink back. And In the episode is food for thought for Indianapolis school authorities and school board members, outgoing and incoming. Wbat would happen If fire should break out In decrepit old Shortridge High School while that antique is crammed from cellar to attic with students, as it Is during school sessions? What would happen if any of a dozen ramshackle, inflammable portable structures that serve as grade schools here caught fire while the children were within? j The outcome might be different from the result of the fire that consumed the temporary schoolhouse near Huntington. The Indianapolis school building program is being obstructed and delayed. Apparently the dilatory tactics are part of the game of school board politics—to prevent any action In the matter until the new board takes office. Every day’s delay prolongs the menace of fire In our crowded, makeshift schoolhouses. Is the game of delay worth while when It risks the lives of Indianapolis childreh? RISING COST OF EDUCATION ,=T|RANK B. NUSBAUM. clerk In I of the State tax cornmis1* .. J sion. reports that from 1014 to 1024—ten years—the cost of education. including all branches of schools, in Indiana increased approximately threefold. In the period school expenses rose from $15,000,000 to $51,000,000, . A larger fraction of each dollar raised by taxation in Indiana is spent on schols than for any other public purpose. In the same period that educational expenses increased three-fold State, county, township and city expenditures only doubled. Frequently impassioned educators publicly bemoan the fact that in this country so little is spent in education in comparLsdh with the immense sums squandered on luxuries. They point out that the Nation spends more on chewing gum, tobacco, movies lipsticks, respectively. as well as other frivolities than in providing school facilities for the children. All of which may i-e true but really doesn’t mean very much. The fact that Indiana spends three times as much on schools now as ten years ago and the total public expenditures for education in the State exceed the ex-

The SAFETY VALVE It Blows When the Pressure Is Too Great.

By The Stoker California s criminal syndicalism law is to bt on trial before the U. S. Supreme Court In the re-hearing next I larch of the Charlotte Anita Whitney case. And again the Supreme Court is on trial before the conscience of the nation. By loaning a hundred million dollars to Mussolini's government of Italy the firm of Morgan & 00., shows it has no fear or disapproval of revolutionary governments. Will Russia be the next borrower? The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor crops; no, but the kind of man the country turns out.—Emerson. Page Sinclair I.ewiß. A New York alderman has discovered that In Havana, Cuba. the> have a rich man’s jail as well as one for tho poor. In the United States the rich don’t stay in jail, so why have one? “A place of sanctuary, a haven of refuge, for every company, corporation and association In the country that has violated the anti-trust law.” So the Federal Trade Commission is described, as Mr. Coolidgt has organized it ,by the commission’s hold-over minority. The sinner comes and secretly confesses, and thus- get “immunity" fropi prosecution by the Department of Justice. Does anyone remember the “immunity hath” that Jimmie Garfield grave the Beef Trust during the first Roosevelt term? A Christmas buying conversation overheard in a bookshop. Enter two girls of high school age: Girl ad Iressi-ig cleric: ‘We want a book for a middle-aged person. She’s our teacher. We want a nice book . . . something for five dollars. Clerk: “How about a nicely bound voluVne of verse like thi-?” Girl, to her companion: “Do you think she ever reads poetry? 1 don’t." Second girl to Clerk: “It could be a dull book just so it looked nice. She’s a middle-aged person.” Clerk: “How about this new biography of Byron? It is quite good and is just five dollars.” Girl, /to her companion: “Wasn’t Byron the one who was sort of reckless?" Girl to Clerk - “We don’t want a;-y thing that isn’t serious. If you are sure it will do for a teacher . , . then we’ll take It.” The Christian Science Monitor is running a series of articles entitled “What’s Right With Florida?” Its editors will see no “error” in the ad .vertlslng returns.

penditures for any other governmental purpose, shows that the public willingly supports education. We may not yet be spending enough for schools but it isn’t fair to chide us with being penurious with schools and extravagant with chewing gum. THE JOYS OF MARTYRDOM SHREE well-to-do farmers of the Amish religious sect, in jail at Goshen for failure to send their children to school, In accordance with Indiana’s compulsory school attendance law, paid their fines the day before Christmas and were released. They voluntarily discarded their crowns of martyrdom and became human beings. The tenets of their church forbade them to sehd their children to public school, they declared when arrested. And they boldly announced they would rot ir> jail rather than compromise their immortal souls and the doctrines of their denomination by obeying the school attendance law. A sort or early Christian martyr attitude. For almost a week they rotted. Then the joys of martyrdom palled. No one paid much attention to the sacrifice they were making for conscience’s sake. There was no popular uprising In their favor. Folks were more interested in the approach of Santa Claus than the fate of Amish martyrs. It’s hard to fight, single-handed and without applause, the State of Indiana. So the trio capitulated, paid their fines and hastened home to spend Christmas with their families. It’s mighty hard to be a martyr w r hen no one pays attention to your suffering, nor weeps over your fate.

SOMETHING FOR NOTHING mHE State securities commission is after the promoters of “endless chain selling schemes” who are active In Indiana. Attorney General Gilllom, in an opinion, has branded the schemes as “Impossible, misleading and fraudulent.” The plan is simple. For Instance one company offers to sell $lO worth of merchandise for sl. All the purchaser has to do Is to send $1 to the company for which he receives three $1 coupons which he sells to three others, who in turn receive three $1 coupons each which they sell to three friends. Then the first purchaser receives the promised merchandise.

Very simple and easy. Who hasn’t three friends to whom they can sell the three coupons? It sounds so plausible. But the company promoting the scheme isn’t giving anything away. For each $lO in merchandise it distributes in accordance with the agreement It receives sl4 In cash. Not so bad. If none of Its coupon holders fell by the wayside, starting with one purchaser, at the eighteenth link of the endless chain 193,710,365 people would have bought Its $1 certificates. By the time all of those had qualified for $lO In merchandise the whole population of the earth would have to Invest in the plan. Something for nothing has an irresistible lure. Occasionally someone does have a rich uncle die, receives an Income tax refund, strikes oil or Is otherwise smiled upon by Lady Luck. Not often however. But no one will get much of a windfall trying to beat a geometrical progression game engineered by an astute promoter. All he’ll get Is the fall, and a full-priced diploma from the school of experience.

MR. FIXIT Brightwood Resident Reports Noisiness §ff Street Cars.

Let Mr. Fixit present your case to city officials. Ho is The Times ropresentatlvo at the city hall. Write him at The Times. Flat wheels of street cars on the Brightwood line disturb the peace of mind of residents of that vicinity, Mr. Fixit was advised today. DEAR MR. FIXIT: You sure do lots of good and I hope you will do good in this case. I am no nervous I can hardly sleep at night. The street car company has two cars on the Brightwood line with flat wheels. They can be heard for three blocks. They sound like they are running right into the house. Number 965 is one of them. These cars have been on this line over four months. TIMES READER Robert I. Todd, Indianapolis Street Railway Coompany president, told Mr. Fixit it is the company’s policy to repaalr flat wheels as soon as they are noted. He has ordered an Investigation. DEAR MR. FIXIT: We need a library near Public School 22, S. Meridian and Kansas Sts. Many in the neighborhood are foreign bom, but willing to learn as much as possible about America and her ways. Many cannot attend night school classes, so I think anew library here would be a big help toward keeping our young folk off of street corners. I wish to thank you for past accomplishments for our south side and city in general. MRS. F. 0., South Side Booster. Your suggestion is constructive, and It will be referred by Mr. Fixit to the new school board.

WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL IJBSSON Study of Paul's Life Reveals His High Character

Preaches Sunday

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Rev. Lambert Case • The pulpit of the Central Unlversalist Church Sunday morning will be occupied by the Rev. Lambert Case, a graduate of Shortridge, who is now assistant pastor of St. Paul’s Unlversalist Church In Chicago.

Music

EEO. Jan and Mischel Chernlavsky, three famous brothers who have been heard in five continents as the Chemiavsky Ensemble, violin, piano and cello, will be heard in the second of the Ona B. Talbot intime concerts in the ballroom of the Columbia Club on Thursday, Jan. 14, in a program replete with Interest and charm. The one appearance of this famous organization some years ago remains a memorable event in the minds of the many muric lovers who heard them at that time, and much interest is being evidenced in their coming to Indianapolis. The following is the complete program: Trio for Pianoforte. Violin and Vio-lon - cello, in B flat Schubert Leo. Jan and Mischel Chemiavsky. Violoncello Solos—“Ko; Ntdret'* Max Bruch “Vito" Popper “Spinning Wheel” Popper Mischel Chemiazsky. —lll Pianoforte Solos— • “Nocturne'' “Studies" “Scherzo” Chopin Jan Chrmlavaky. - .V Violin Solo— Sonata—“ Tho Dertl’a Trill" . . Tartlnl-Krelsler Leo Chernlavaky. Trios for Pianoforte. Violin and Violoncello. arranged by the Chemlavsky'a. “Russian Romance" . . Glinka “Minuet" Boocharinl Leo, Jan and Mischel Chemiavsky. s s s

SLFRED HOLLINS, English organ composer, will appear In recital at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church on Wednesday night, Jan. 13. Hollins is best known throughout the world as a concert organist of the foremost rank; he is also one of the most popular composers for the organ of the present time. With a thorough musical training based upon the severest discipline of the foremost teachers in England and Germany, and a natural creative gift of ingratiating melody, a richly colored harmonic sense and a keen perception of crisp, virile rhythms, Hollins’ compositions not only for the organ, but also for chorus and piano, and other instrument, have won for him the grateful thanks of performers in those fields of music, and world wide recognition, particularly In the organ field. While his technical equipment is amply sufficient to encompass the most severe forms of musical composition such as the fugue and the sonata, Hollins has preferred in his organ works to emninv his facile gifts in the creation oncert overtures, and characteristic pieces of a less academic type, such as grand choruses, inarches, intermezzo, and other works of melodic character. In addition to this direct appeal to the musical ears of his audience his compositions “lie” well for the organ Cto use the parlance of the organist), that is, they “fit” the fingers and the feet of the performer and lend themselves to the peculiar metier of the organ. Lovers of organ music in this city will be glad to learn tttpt Hollins has promised to play one or more of his own compositions on his programr

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT

Is Life Worth Living? By Mrs. Walter Ferguson EHE first article In a death pact which culminated In the suicide of two eastern high school boys, reads: “We, the undersigned, do not consider the living of this life of a human being worth all the effort which we must put forth to sustain it.” Think of the pity of this! Two boys with fine intelligence, fortunately situated in life, with good parents, comfortable homes, kind friends, all sorts of advantages, taking their lives because they considered them not worth the living. Such things can bo nothing but the indirect result of that wave of ultra-sophistication which is sweeping the count A Ever slnee the war we have had a certain class of writers and thinkers who have persistently preached the doctrine of pessimism and self-indulgence. Here we are, citizens of a country which Is the wealthiest on the globe, blessed with bounties too plentiful to enumerate, and yet our literary' market is flooded with books and pamphlets and magazines which breathe a spirit of morbidness that would be more consistent among an oppressed and starving people. We are polluting the minds of our youngsters with stuff that is a detriment to mature readers. We are harping about the emptiness of existence and groaning because we say life is a futile thing. And so we have suicide pacts and youthful murders, and our sons and daughters are growing up without faith or hope. This Is the one dire result which has come from the slaughter of our illusions. We have talked ourselves Into a belief that there are no rewards which accrue to virtue, and that the path of duty has no roses growing by the wayside: we go to extreme lengths to prove that men and women are unfaithful and selfish and bad. and that rdlgion is an evidence of low lntelligei ce, and that the future Is only emptiness. There Is, Indeed, no health In us. If we would save ourselves and our children, we must begin to teach less pernicious doctrines; we must grid up our own souls with the ancient attributes of Faith and Hope and Charity. We must. If necessary, take a step baokward toward BaS bltry. and attempt ourselves to see life ns a beautiful adventure Insteed of regarding it as a little space of emptiness through which we must walk. We must resurrect some sort of religion to uphold us. Man has never been able to live by’ bread alone, and that ia what too many of us are now trying to do.

Length of U. S. Boundary

You can get an answer to any questact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington. p. C.. inclosing 2 cents In stamps for reply. Medical, legal and martial advice cannot be riven nor can extended research be undertaken. i All other questions will received a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot tj answered. All letters are confldenWhat is the total length of the boundary lino of the United States? It is 10,758 miles. Os this 1,883 miles Is Atlantic coast line, 1,316 miles Pacific Coast line, 1,639 miles is on the Gulf of Mexico, 3,945 is Canadian boundary and 1,975 is Mexican boundary. Can you name some famous duels in the United States with fatal results? Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, resulting in death of Hamilton; General Mclntock and Button Gwinett in which Mclntosh was killed; Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickinson, Dickinson was killed; Thomas H. Benton and Charles Luca, Lucas was killed; Commodore Decatur and Captain Barron, Decatur was killed; Congressman Gilley and Graves, Gilley was killed. Who was “Sitting Bull?” A famous Sioux chief, bom on Willow Creek (then in Dakota Territory). the son of Chief Jumping Bull. He early became a leader of the more desperate members of his tribe. < His band massacred whites at Spirit Lake, lowa, and in Minnesota in 1862 and 1864 and was pur-

SATURDAY, DEC. 26, 1925

_ The International Cnlform Sunday School Lennon for Dec. 27: Review of Psul • Life from Athene to Rome, with Special Christman Reference By William E. Gilroy, D. D. Editor of The Congregatlonalist mT Is fitting that the review of a great section of Paul's life’ and ministry Bhould come at the Christmas season. No life outside of that of the life of the Great Master himself ever more fully or beautifully expressed the Christmas spirit than did the life of Saint Paul. It is in one of hts epistles that we have recorded the saying of Jesus not recorded elsewhere in any of the sacred writings. He speaks of the words of the Lord Jesus "how he said: It Is more blessed to give than to receive.” It was characteristic of Paul that these words of Jesus had found a central place In his life. lie found all the joy of the Christian life and of the expression of his Christian faith In giving himself in service for others. It had become the supreme passion of his being to manifest toward God and toward the world that spirit of loving sacrifice that Jesus had manifested toward him. It was this great fact of Christmas, the coming of Christ into the world as the expression of the free and unlimited grace of God. that dominated all Paul’s thinking and that became the motive power in everything he did. Even in the ordinary things of lifo he hud no thought of getting anything for himself. He took pride m maintaining his ministry at his own expense. He worked with his hands as a tentnmker that he might not be chargeable unto those to whom he preached the gospel, although he recognized that It was entirely fitting that a man who preached the gospel and who gave faithful service should have propel provision for his maintenance. Art of Giving In the higher things of life he similarly practiced the art of giving. He used his scholarship and his culture for the blessing of his fellow men. All that God had given him of ability and all that he had attained through education and training, he utilized for the helping and uplifting of lowly men. Nowhere in all literature Is there a nobler spirit of democracy than breathes through the life and work of Papl. He rejoiced In the power of God to save and help common people. There was in him nothing of the pride and contempt of the strong for the weak though he wat a man of indomitable force of will. Nor was there anything of pride and the contempt of a scholar for the Ignorant and unlearned. All of life In Its abilities and endowments had become touched for him with the glory of love and service. It Is these things that It is worth while for us to observe In Paul at this Christmas season. It is these things that it Is worth while for us to emulate In our lives.

Secret of Living If there Is one thing that perhaps above all others we may recall In this review of a quarter’s lessons, It is Paul's words concerning God in his sermon upon Mars Hill, at Athens, that God is not far from every one of us. To realize that In him we live and move and have our being is to find the secret of Joyous, noble living as Paul found It. Only as we find this God, and thus consciously live and move and have our being In him, do we discover the Joy and glory of Christmas, do we accept the gift that came to the world In the birth of the Babe Os Bethlehem. And there Is one further thing that Paul’s life and teaching emphasizes for us: namely, that Christ is the saviour of the individual as well as the saviour of the world. We come in all Paul’s writings to an Intimate personal Saviour. The gospel that has manifested Its power in the lives of other men can manifest Its power in the life of every man who will yield himself to the power of God’s grace. A Thought It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about hJs neck, and he oaat Into the sea, Minn that he should offend one of these little one*. —Luke 17:1-2, • • • f7>| HILDREN have more need of L inofl<,ls than of critics.— I- —-I Joubert.

warpath almost Incessantly until 1876 when they were driven by miners from a reservation in the Black Hills and refused to settle on a reservation on Indian Territory. Under the Influence of Sitting Bull, they ambushed and slaughtered a lody of troops sent against them by General Sheridan under George A. Ouster. After the massacre Sitting Bull escaped into Canada, but returned In 1890 and was killed that year at Grand River. N. D., when an attempt was made to rescue him from arrest. What is “muckraidng?" The term was originated by President Roosevelt and applied by him to the vactivities of sensational Journalists who made It their business to expose graft, malfeasance and dishonesty among Government officials. Having whetted the puhiio taste for scandal they resorted to exaggeration, misrepresentation and even slander. No port of the Government machinery escaped. What Is the difference between an American'and a European plan hotel? An American plan hotel makes a per diem charge for board and lodging and does not separate the two items. Under the European plan charges are made for lodging only, and meals are furnished to order. Is dtatomlte a rqetaille or nonmetalllc element? It is not an element, but consists slam ant*.