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The Immigration Issue Governor Alfred E. Smith, in his discussion of immigration, has injected into the campaign one of the most perplexing problems before Congress. The subject has been debated continually since the end of the World War, when this country was threatened with an alien influx of alarming proportions, and is not yet settled. Smith, in his acceptance speech, said he was opposed to restriction “based upon the figures of immigrant population contained in a census thirtyeight years old.” He did not propose a substitute basis, but apparently favors use of later census figures in determining the quotas of the various countries. If this were done, the character of immigration would be changed radically. Larger numbers would be admitted from southern and eastern Europe, with proportionately fewer from western and northern Europe. The Dillingham law of 1919, designed as a temporary measure, restricted immigration from any country to 3 per cent of the total number of perBons resident in the United States who had been born in that country, as shown by the census of 1910. This, it was contended, gave undue advantage to the southern countries, since the tide of immigration from them was at its peak in the twenty years immediately preceding 1910. Congress frankly desired to restrict the entrance of persons from the southern and eastern countries, and increase the quotas from Germany, France, Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries. So, in 1924, anew immigration law was passed, after protracted debate, and the 1890 census was adopted as a basis through compromise, and the percentage of admissions' was changed to two instead of three. This law, in addition to changing the character of immigration, reduced the total number. Where in 1923, 29 per cent came from the Nordic countries and 29 per cent from the southern, in 1926 41.5 per cent were Nordics, and 9.6 were southerners. During the last fiscal year German, Irish, English, Scotch, Italian and Scandinavian immigrants led in the order named, the Germans furnishing 54,000 and the Italians 18,000. It was argued that the 1890 census was fair to both the new and old immigrant stocks, insofar as each type had contributed to the makeup of our population. While designed as temporary, majority opinion favors retention of this arrangement. This same act of 1924 provided that after a year the number of immigrants admitted should be 150,000 annually, divided among the countries on a basis of the “national origin” of the entire population in 1920. The secretaries of Labor, State and Commerce were designated a committee to determine national origins. They found their task well-nigh impossible, and while they have prepared a table and submitted It to Congress, they themselves are not satisfied with the figures. There is particular objection because in the table Great Britain is allotted nearly a half of the total. Congress has deferred putting the national origins provision into effect. Its repeal in the next Congress is expected. Use of later censuses than 1890 in determining quotas would increase immigration by nearly 100,000, and change quotas as indicated below, according to best available estimates: Annual quotas based on census of Austria C0^TR1E . 5 .....„.. $£ £2 £8 Behring 512 1,042 1.254 Czeciio-Slovakia A. 3,073 3,431 11,372 9,002 ! = 4B S IS I:™ Germany'.’... 51,227 47.081 45,072 33,447 Great Britain and Northern r „„. w Ireland 34,007 (55,724) (51,502) 27,300 Trlrt Free State 28 567 10.419 G-eece Hungary*’.?.... 473 1,132 3,832 7,412 Hungary '•••" Latvia" ’‘'.-V........... 142 271 1.026 753 Lithuania .......344 555 1,752 2,745 Netherlands “V.7.7.V.A•. 1,648 1.000 2,404 2,670 Nor way..!.............V.V, 6.453 6,757 8,134 7.277 Poland ..... '. 5,982 16,177 20,052 25,325 Portucal' A 503 916 1,644 2.052 Rumania 603 1,412 4,046 1,770 S, 2,248 4,496 16,27# 25,049 SnaTn 131 145 608 1,001 Sweden „ 0.561 11,072 13,362 12,512 Switzerland ... *..... T. 2,081 2,312 2.502 2,373 Turkey .......... 100 118 1 ' 770 2or,f > Tn £o*Slavia ..... 671 1.404 4.254 3,389 All others 4,160 1.063 2,762 2,402 Totals 164,607 178,493 240,300 241,426 Potshotting at Zogu A' Central American revolutionist once messaged his general in the field: “I am sending you thirty volunteers. Please return the ropes.” About a month ago President Zogu announced to the world that at the earnest solicitation of his adoring people he had consented to proclaim himself King of Albania. Today King Zogu is hiding behind barricades in his own palace at Tirana, according to the cables, dodging the bullets of these same loyal subjects. It begins to look, therefore, as if some of the cheering mob of a month ago had come to Tirana in ropes. The trouble with King Zogu is that he has been all things to all men in his thirty-four years of intensive adventure. He has fought for the Turks, and against them, for and against the Austrians, the Serbs, and the Italians. At present he is Dictator Mussolini’s jumping-jack. Mussolini has made Albania an Italian protectorate to serve as a bridgehead on the eastern side of the Adriatic in case of war with Jugoslavia or an invasion of the Balkans. Albanians as a whole never have taken kindly to Zogu’s activities or the Italian hookup. Furthermore, there are a lot of good republicans among them who did not cheer very loudly over his enthronement. So Zogu has a lot of trouble on his hands. Plotters are said to be swarming all over the place trying to get a pot shot at him. Dispatches from border points say that eleven of them have been hanged in the public square of Durazzo for conspiring against the self-made king tvhile the country teems with Italian and native secret police combing the kingdom for others. King Zogu also may be King Zogu the last. Albanians are to Europeans what mountain feudists are to Kentucky, proud, independent, dead shots and mighty hard to get along with if they don’t like you, if you know what wp mean.

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Business Men in Politics A political phenomenon worth noting is the prominent and open part played by leaders of business and industry in the present campaign. Some of the biggest figures in America’s business life are avowed workers for either Hoover or Smith. John J. Raskob, for instances, quit General Motors to become Democratic national chairman. On the Republican roster are many notable names, including large employers of labor and men who control capital. Both parties make much of the support of such outstanding men. Interviews with Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison on Hoover’s fitness are reprinted and distributed by Republican campaigners. Let a man of wealth or influence pledge funds or allegiance to Smith, and the mimeograph squad at headquarters immediately is mobilized so that the good news may be rushed to the daily press. Politicians once had a horror of letting the public know that their candidate enjoyed such backing. For it was the general belief that large contributors and big interests subsequently exacted payment in the form of political favors. With some justification the voters felt that an administration so aided might be subject to dictation from its big benefactors. There seems less ground for suspicion of this sort today. Business leaders are entering politics as individuals rather than agents for special or selfish interests, as too often was the case in the past. Raskbob prefers Smith. "/he President of the same company has announced for Hoover. Os their own choice, it appears, men of this type are giving hostages that, should their candidate be chosen, they will not seek to exercise undue influence on his administration. Their willingness to work in the open now is some assurance that they will not seek secret or special favors hereafter. All this is clear gain. Thanks, Mr. Leslie “I’ll knock that phoney halo down around his ears. Ir>. -this chaste English and dignified language, Harr* Leslie, candidate for Governor, announces warfare oh Frank Dailey, whose warfare is against corruption in government and whose record is so outstanding that he needs no halo to give it emphasis. Car. it be that his present associations have corrupted the language of the speaker of the House or is it just another case of “those whom the gods destroy they first make mad”? The birds who flock together have always had a raucous note In their hymns of hate and so, perhaps, the language of Leslie will be appreciated by those to whom he makes his special appeal. Os course, the Republicans of the State interested in placing Indiana before the Nation in a different attitude than it has been known in the past few years will hardly be impressed by the idea of losing even the pretense of dignity, which is usually associated with the office of chief executive. The Republicans understood in the spring when they voted in the primaries. They gave to Leslie so few votes that he was a negligible factor until the old forces and influences which flourished under Stephenson combined in the convention to once moie steal the livery of the Republican party. If there be any satisfaction, it will come from the fact that Leslie himself now gives proof that their judgment of his fitness in the spring was quite correct. For the cause of good government, it would be fortunate if Dailey and Leslie could appear each night together from the same platform. The inevitable comparison would complete the picture* and remove any lingering vestige of doubt as to the victory of Dailey, decency and dignity.

David Dietz on Science Microbes and Parents No. 171

WHILE Lazzaro Spallanzani was lecturing to his classes in Italy at the University of Reggio, all England was stirred by the announcement of an experimenter by the name of Needham. Needham had .oegun to experiment with microbes and he made an impression upon even the learned members of the famous Royal Society. Needham reported that he had taken mutton gravy, hot from the fire, and corked it up in a bottle. 6 Then after a few

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most any sort of soup would do, such as a soup made from seeds or almonds. Wehn Spallanzani heard about the experiments of Needham, it recalled to him what he had read of the experiments of Redi. Redi, it will be remembered, set out to prove that flies did not arise spontaneously from decayed meat, but that the flies arose from eggs which other flies laid on the decayed meat. He proved this by the simple process of placing a piece of meat in a jar covered with a fine net. No flies could alight on the meat to lay eggs. The result was that no flies appeared from the meat. Spallanzani was unwilling to believe that microbes could arise spontaneously. If flies had to have parents, he believed that microbes likewise had to have parents. So Spallanzani began to think what the trouble might be with Needham’s experiments. He finally came to two conclusions. One was that the microbes were present in small numbers when Needham began to heat his gravy or soup and that he did not heat it sufficiently long to kill them. His other conclusion was that Needham did not cork his bottles tightly enough and that microbes got in from the air during the two or three days which Needham left the gravy stand before he examined it under the miscroscope. So Spallanzani decided to try some experiments to see if his conclusions were correct. He obtained a number of big glass flasks. He scrubbed and washed them until they were clean Then he filled them with water and placed almonds, peas and various seeds in them. He was ready to test out Needham’s experiments and his own theories about them.

M. E. TRACY SAYS: "If Our Business Institutions Adopted Methods and Practices Which Are Common to Politics, They Woidd Not Last Long Enough to Meet Their Next Month’s Bills.”

T .HAVE read, or listened to, JL some thirty addresses in this campaign. Mostly they have been by prominent leaders. They included the two acceptance speeches, as well as other pronouncements by the presidential nominees. No one could take the whole bunch and form an intelligent idea of any outstanding issue. If a high school senior were to be asked to explain what farm relief meant and were to reply by quoting everything Hoover and Smith have said on the subject, he would not get a passing mark. If a citizen undertook to tell a foreigner why prohibition is an issue, what is meant by the Great Lakes waterway, or how the water power problem originated and had nothing to draw on, except the material supplied by politicians in this campaign, he would be absolutely unable to make himself clear. a a a Destroy Confidence Monday night I heard Borah and Smith. Borah told what Smith did not know about farm relief and inland waterways Smith told what the Republicans had failed to do for New York. That is characteristic of the entire performance. Each side is busy about nothing so much as telling what the other does not know, or has failed to accomplish. Taking the testimony as a whole, you get the impression that there is dense ignorance all around. If I met a doctor who spent so much time telling me what his colleagues did not know and how superior he was to the whole profession, I would not allow him 10 treat a yellow dog. If a manufacturer could not do a better job advertising his goods, I would not trade with him. Our political leaders are doing nothing so successfully as to undermine public confidence in every one who holds office, or aspires to hold it. Taking them at their word, the entire structure is infected with graft, incompetence and crookedness. The prevailing motif is one of irresponsibile attack. a a a Public in Dark More often than not, the discussion runs to wisecracks, or platitudes. In no instance have I found it rising to a straightforward clean-cut explanation of any problem. One wonders why this should be if the problems discussed are so important. If farm relief, for instance, means so much, and if our leaders have found it so perjflexing that they could not find a satisfactory solution in eight years, how can the public be expected to understand it, much less to form intelligent opinions, without more of an explanation than that Hoover favors such and such a policy, while Governor Smith favors something else? If power control is so complicated that our best minds do not know what to do about it after a decade of investigation, why should not the public be given something more than a few glittering generalities? n 8 a Nothing but Ballyhoo The people are expected to give an intelligent decision with regard to farm relief, power control, foreign policy, inland water ways and other perplexing questions. That is the one excuse for the existence of our political system. That is the reason why we put up wfth three or four months of speech making aand pamphleteering every four years. Such campaigns as the one through which we are now passing are supposed to afford us the necessary enlightenment. The original idea was that they would be informing, that the people would learn from candidates what the shooting was all about. Perhaps they did once upon a time. Perhaps in the olden days candidates tried to explain why issues arose, of what they consisted and the various ways in which they might be met. But it was so long ago that everyone has forgotten about it. What we get now is a regular word ballyhoo, whether expressed in highbrow, Englishfi or East Side lingo. Personalities, may cut less of a figure, but backbiting does not. The roar one hears amid respectable surroundings is just as dirty, just as misleading and just as deliberately intended as an appeal to prejudice and emotionalism, as is the “whispering.” tt tt tt Applaud Loose Talk If our business institutions adopted methods and practices which are common to politics, if they made such reckless and irresponsible statements, if they left as much untold, if they vilified or ridiculed their competitors to the same extent. if they glorified themselves with the same kind of complacent self-praise, if they twisted facts and figures in the same manner, they would not last long enough to meet their next month’s bills. No activity in the United States permits such loose talk as we not only tolerate, but applaud on the part of our political leaders. They may avoid the short and ugly word, but they are continually proving each other liars, and the habit has deteriorated to a point where no one considers it a serious offense. One says the unemployed in this country amounted to 2,000,000 last February and another says they numbered 4,000,000. Nobody "‘cares who is right, or whether either is right. We just take it as a part of the show. If it were business, we would demand accuracy, and if we did not get it we would bring a libel suit.

days he examined some of the gravy under a microscope and found it swarming with microbes. These microbes, he insisted, had been generated from the gravy. He insisted that they had come to life spontaneously. Later he reported that mutton gravy was not necessary. Al-

BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of XlvKeia, the Health Magazine. IN the fall whooping cough is one of the infectious diseases which becomes extremely frequent, perhaps because children get together again in schools. Health departments find that whooping cough is one of the most difficult conditions with which they are concerned. A few cases appearing in any group of children spread rapidly to include all who have not had the disease previously. Investigators have found that the disease is more likely to spread rapidly during its early stages before the first whoop and just after it, at a time when it is most difficult to diagnose the disease; thus the problem of prevention is an exceedingly difficult one. The germ of whooping cough is likely to be expelled with each severe cough and thrown to some distance from the throat.

WE are glad Hoover denounced religious strife in the campaign, for while his statement will cut no figure, it is a welcome call to sanity. This strife always has been with us and always will be. People can disagree about things, regarding which they know something, yet remain friends, but the minute they disagree about their salvation, regardless which they know nothing, all of them get mad and most of them go crazy! tt a u France and England are not square to devise a treaty which would give them the ships they want and deny us the ships we w’ant. They know Uncle Sam is as free from inperialism as Santa Claus from kidnaping; they know our dogs of war have stayed in our own yard, except when they went abroad to save the lives of Fiance and England. The difference between the United States and European nations is that in foreign affairs we follow Pollyanna and they follow Machiavelli. a a it The Government is right to fight the naturalization of Mme. Schwimmer, super-pacifist who says she would not help us fight if we had a war. We have enough of the Schwimmer outfit in our great universities without importing any undesirable recruits. u a Senator Bruce of Maryland spends his time checking up on the liquor statesmen have, but he doesn’t say anything about the supply Secretary Mellon is said to have in his cellar. Possibly this silence is due to the fact that Bruce’s son married Mellon’s daughter. It’s all In the family, you see.

“Honest” Dan, he was, operating his little grocery store in an Indianapolis suburb, with the years carrying him along, sometimes a bit behind, sometimes a little ahead. Then the store burned. There was no insurance. His two sons tired of his pessimism over his loss. They went a step further and forged checks on his good name. He paid to keep them from prison. As though the deluge of unhappy luck were not complete, Maudie, his wife, went to the hospital to undergo an operaiton. She died. It probably was a blessing, for she had suffered so, but Dan didn’t take it that way. He broke then. Nerve gone, crippled in spirit, home gone, wife gone, kids gone, too. Dan cleared out and became a drifter, just a bum for years, leading a hand to

Vital Issues on Which Candidates Are Mum

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Whooping Cough Is Serious Problem

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There are available vaccines which many physicians believe are of value in preventing the disease. However, their value has not been sufficiently established to warrant their use in every child, a recommendation which is made for the control of diphtheria, for example. Whereas whooping ebugh in itself is not an extremely serious condition, the records indicate that it is extremely dangerous to small children, particularly those under 1 year of age. In older children, the after effects and complications, such as pneumonia, tuberculosis disturbances of the heart, and similar troubles, are sufficient to make the disease dangerous. More than 90 per cent of all deaths from whooping cough occur in children under 5 years of age. In the control of this disease, it Ls of the utmost importance to keep the child with whooping cough away from other children. Thus prevention depends primarily on the parents of the sick child

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By Frederick LANDIS

nnHE greatest thing that could happen in this campaign would be for Hoover to smash the Solid South and for Smith to smash the Republican States up North, leaving every State in the Union so close that the party in. power had to be decent or get licked. n a tt These Ohio dry agents should get the limit for shooting the girl in the automobile when it failed to stop for the agents at night. Nobody stops at night any more, not even when another is changing a tire and evidently in need of help. The only way you can tell that officers are really officers is to have a whole squad of them, with a brass band.

Questions and Answers

Where is Monte Carlo? It is a town in the principality of Monaco; five miles northeast of face, one and one-half miles from Monaco. It occupies a picturesque site overlooking a bay of the Mediterranean, and is one of the most beautiful place on the Riviera. The casino, containing the famous gaming rooms, is a showy structure, decorated with statues and paintings. It stands on a hill over-look-ing the sea, but the chief facade faces inland. The principal games

mouth existence, begging, even stealing a little. Then, as though he had been traveling in a wide circle all these years, he drifted back to Indianapolis and came to the attention of the Wheeler City Mission. They towed the derelict into harbor and began salvaging. Over a cup of coffee and a doughnut, Dan talked out all the old hurts and began to feel better. From little odd jobs the mission obtained for him he worked up enough self-esteem to go back into the grocery business. He has debts to pay up—something to live for now—clear himself—good citizen again! Hundrdes of homeless men with backgrounds not unlike Dan’s have been salvaged from the wreckage or prevented from outlawry by the Wheeler City Mission, which shares in YOUR COMMUNITY FUND.

as well as on the parents of othei children in the vicinity. Children should be kept away from other children who have coughs and colds. Whenever a cough or cold persists more than a day or two the child should have proper medical attention. If parents know of other children in the neighborhood who have whooping cough and who are being permitted to play outdoors with the gang, the health department should be notified, so that the sick child will be put under the control of its parents ,and the latter informed that the child must be kept alone until it is well. In most communities the parents of children with whooping cough are not considered as in quarantine and are permitted to go about their dailly work. A sign on the door to the effect that whooping cough is present in the household permits other parents, however, to take suitable precautions for the protection of their children.

MOST OF THEM GO WILD WE FOLLOW POLLYANN AL’S FLAX WON’T WORK

SMITH is more effective when he criticises prohibition enforcement than when he suggests a substitute. His proposition tc let each State fix its own alcoh >Uc content is as wild as it la unconstitutional, for we tried this arrangement with our wet and dry States before the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted, and the wet States flooded the dry States, just as the State with the high alcoholic content would flood the State with the low alcoholic content, under Mr. Smith’s arrangement. tt a It seems wrong for Michigan to send that fellow up for life when the crime which made him an habitual criminal was the possession of liquor, but two of his former crimes were burglary, and any bird who commits burglary twice is entitled to rot in prison! it tt a It’s all right for China to sell her salt to pay her foreign debts and maintain her credit, but she wants to keep all the pepper she has to arouse her half billion sleepy goats to some understanding of China’s place in the world.

played are roulette and trente et quarante, with stakes ranging from five francs to 600 and from twenty francs to 12,000. What is the so-called relationship puzzle? A man pointing to a picture on the wall said: “Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man’s father was my father’s son.” Who is represented in the picture? Answer: The picture is the son of the speaker. The speaker is the son of his father and "that man” (in the picture) is the son of the speaker. What is the official speed record for stock automobiles? The record recognized by the Contest Board of the American Automobile Association is 104.34782 miles per hour made by Wade Morton driving an Auburn. Where was Emil Jannings born? He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., but when he was a year old his family moved to Switzerland. Ten years later they moved to Gerlitz, Germany, from which place the Jannings family originally came to America. What are the words of Proverbs 31:6 and 7? "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery to more.” Does a snake crawl backward in getting out of a very small space? A snake cannot crawl backwards but it can turn around in an inconceivably small space.

140 Years of Presidential Pageants

In this chapter of “The Presidential Parade” series. Rodney Butcher describes the election of IB4H, In which the Whigs elected John H. Harrison in a turbulent battle. BY RODNeIFDUTCHER, WASHINGTON, Oct, 3.—The wildest, weirdest, wooziest political campaign in American history was the log cabin-hard cider battle of 1840 which ballyhooed President Martin Van Buren out of office and installed “Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.” The victorious Whigs were purely an opposition party, with no issues, no logic, no program and not much of a candidate. The Democrats had been in power for forty years. Van Buren had been weakened by the panic of 1837, which he inherited from Jackson and the bank fight, but was stronger than ever with his party. But the Whigs waged a campaign of “Noise, Numbers and Nonsense,” and hordes of new voters were attracted. But the year is also notable for the successful political maneuvers which beat Henry Clay out of the Whig nomination and established the doctrine of availability which has since barred many great men from the presidency in favor of comparative mediocrities. The Whig convention met in a Lutheran Church at Harrisburg, Pa., resolved on harmony. Clay had said he would “rather be right than President,” though few believed him. He was a distinct majority choice at the outset; he had continued to lead his party in Congress and nationally. i Thurlow Weed of New York had come determined to defeat him. New York and Pennsylvania delegates were preaching that Clay couldn’t carry their States. The anti-Clay groups arranged a series of private informal ballots, introducing the unit rule into them. Clay led on the first ballot, but after three days Harrison had been maneuvered into a majority. Clay lost because he was a Freemason. With the nomination of Harrison and Tyler of Virginia, the Whigs began their great orgy of ballyhoo. They had no platform and they dared not oppose the Democratic doctrine of non-interference with slavery, but they sang, shouted and paraded to victory. Monster parades were held everywhere. Some fool in Congress hac sneered at Harrison’s birth in c log cabin and the cabin with bar reled hard cider, the general’s favorite drink, became campaigi symbols. Brass bands led long processlor of cabins, coonskins, cider kep brooms (to sweep clean), and ev thing that might be identified “Old Tip,” hero of the Batt. Tippecanoe against the Indiana The Democrats renominated Vai. Buren unanimously. They adopted a platform denouncing abolitionists and endorsing the Constitution Thomas Jefferson, equal rights (for, men) and economy. The party in power had laughed! at all the antics of the Whigs, call-| ing them “animal shows.” But fin-J ally they worried. Whig orators were appealing t< the masses by comparing log cabii fare with Van Buren’s sumptuous style of living. They ridiculed “Little Van” as a “sweet little fellow” and a “weasel.” The Democrats hurled “imbecile” and “old woman” at the agec Harrison and “abolitionist" when they heard he had once said thf people had a right to petition Congress on slavery. The noise increased through summer and fall and the nation passed from hysteria into delirium. Even Clay supported the Whig ticket, although Harrison’s nomination had thrown him into drunken rage. Van Buren’s defeat was terrific, especially in the electoral college, but he had 364.000 more votes than he had against Harrison in 1836 and more than any candidate up to that time. Ballyhoo, corruption or both had boosted the popular vote 40 per cent In four years! The significant new Abolitionist or Liberty party, having nominated James G. Burney of New York, polled 7,000 votes. Thousands of Whigs poured into Washington for the inauguration, many of them after jobs. Harrison, refusing a carriage, rode down Pennsylvania avenue on a white charger. All the log cabins and coonskins and cider kegs were brought on for the jamboree. After that, the job-hunters began to pour into the White House and a month later Harrison had died in the rush. NEXT: How the dark horse, Janies K. Polk, galloped out of obscurity.

This Date in U. S. History

Oct. 3 1852—Spanish authorities prevented the landing at Havana of the United States ship Crescent City. 1860—Prince of Wales official guest of the President at Washington. 1864—Sheridan desolated a five-mile circle in Virginia, where General Meigs had been murdered by guerillas. 1867—Elias Howe, patentee of the sewing machine, died.

Daily Thoughts

It is not so good that the man should be alone.—Genesis 2:18. nan HUMAN beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. Margaret Fuller Ossoll.