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Americanizing Lake County Finally, the United States government is taking steps to bring Lake county back into the nation, or rather to Americanize a part of Indiana that has shown little regard for American traditions, laws and ideals. The attorney-general is sending special attorneys to the federal courts in the northern part of the state to help District Attorney Loomis probethe charges of fraud in elections, conspiracies to violate the laws, corruption in public offices. Th egovernment has been slow. That action might!*well have been taken some months ago when the district attorney left the grand jury in charge of a deputy and went on a vacation just as the probe began. That should haev been the signal for action. , The case was too important to be left in the hands of his regular assistants, whose experience was hardly such as to commend them for the tas kof coping with so important a situation or against such powerful influences as were under suspicion of protecting gigantic election frauds. The extentof law violation in that part of Indiana, as it is partially revealed, must shock those who have complacently permitted that county to rule the politics of the state, or, it may be disclosed, the elections of the state. The universal disregard of the prohibition la w’suggests that the police force must have been blind, and other agencies, local and federal, must have been at least farsighted. Such open violations do not exist where officers of the law do not wish them to exist. One phase of the situation, very important, should be pursued to the limit. The senate itself might be interested. The federal judge of this district, has made public correspondence in which he resents a story, widely told, that he had held a conlerence with Senator James Watson and Bert Thurman, national Republican committeeman, in which assurances were given that there would be no indictments except of a few bootleggers. The indignation of the judge is righteous and his prompt demand for a denial from the senator should place him beyond suspicion. But there is the larger question of whether Senator Watson took an interest in this probe, not for the purpose of helping it, but of stifling it. The public has not heard of any great senatorial interest in securing assistance for the youthful and inexperienced prosecutor, w ho was so badly in need of a vacation when the probe began. If there has been such interest and desire to aid. the senator should tell his colleagues about it. Certainly Lake county corruption is quite as important as the tariff bill. For the situation there hits at the very heart of all liberties. Election frauds are, in reality, treason or anarchy. If they can succeed, free government fails. If the£ succeed through protection of criminals, law fails. < The time has come to Americanize Lake county and with it the rest of Indiana. Shearer’s Employer Tells Efforts to limit the senate’s Shearer investigation to the Geneva episode have failed. Lobbying activities of the ship building companies in Washington during the last five years are to be included. Apparently President Hoover is responsible. Senator Allen, who Friday persuaded the committee to widen the inquiry, is reported to be the rPesident's representative on the committee. That such full investigation is needed is demonstrated by the opening testimony Friday, when Clinton L. Bardo. president of the New York Ship Building Company, was on the stand. Many harsh things have been said about the ship companies since the revelations of their propaganda agent. Shearer, last month. They have been assailed from the White House, from the senate floor and throughout the press of the country. But nothing said or written about them has been so damning as the contradictory and evasive admissions of Bardo himself. His testimony was in line with the alibi letters of his company and the Bethlehem Ship Building Corporation and Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Company to President Hoover, which created such a bad impression on the public. . Bardo argued on the stand that the three con* panies sent Shearer to the Geneva naval conference, which he helped to break, merely as an ‘•observer’* and "reporter.” Under cross-examination, he was unable to explain satisfactorily why they paid Shearer $25,000 for such a short reporting job, or what they expected Shearer to report which could not be found in daily newspapers, or why they should employ a notorious anti-disarmament propagandist instead of an experienced reporter if their purpose was to get news rather than to destroy the conference. Bardo admitted that his company had two cruiser contracts from the government containing cancellation privilege clauses in event of an arm! agreement, and that therefore in sending Shearer to Geneva they were interested parties. But he argued that they were interested in the “trend” of the conference and not in its “result.” The senate committee seemed unable to follow this hair-splitting. Several times Bardo was forced to go back and correct his testimony. He could ndt explain why, if the company was so displeased with Shearer's “bunk” 4

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reports and propaganda activities at Geneva, it had continued to employ the propagandist. First it appeared that the three companies, especially Bardo's, had severed relations with Shearer in February, 1928, and that the latter’s duties had been confined to Geneva. Bardo said his company had no connection with a later $5,250 job by Shearer. But finally he corrected this statement. Bardo also revealed that ship building companies had raised a fund of $102,000 for publicity and legislative activities in Washington in connection with the merchant marine. Later he admitted that his company helped to pay for Shearer's publication, “The Cloak of Benedict Arnold,” an attack on disarmament, which the companies finally decided not to issue. Asked why the company did not disclose that Shearer was its employe when he was publishing articles as a representative of patriotic organizations. Bardo answered: ‘‘He wasn’t supposed to preach it from the housetops that he represented us.” And that is the issue. Secrecy! Any paid propaganda by large financial interests is a public danger. When it is the secret paid propaganda of armament makers against the national naval policy, it becomes a grave menace. Coercion vs. Persuasion England is becoming more temperate, the cables inform us An official government report just made show's that during 1928 there were 9,254 fewer persons arrested for drunkenness than in the year preceding. The total of 55,642 was the lowest for any year since the war. Drinking in England has been decreasing steadily, year by year, statistics reveal. The English are drinking less whisky, brandy, and other ardent spirits, and are substituting for them light wines and beer. This change is being accomplished without drastic legislation, like the Volstead and Jones laws. It is the result of a process of persuasion rather than coercion, such as has been attempted here. The same thing was happening in this country, until the advent of prohibition. America in the same way was becoming temperate. It is interesting to note that in the fiscal year which ended June 30, U2B, more than 75,t)00 persons were arrested in the United States by federal officers for violation of prohibition laws. Federal officers assisted in the arrest of an additional 13,000 by state officers. There are no trustworthy figures to show how many were arrested under state laws and by st>*" officers alone during that period, but the number would run into many thousands. The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment recently published an exhaustive compilation of statistics from official sources which revealed beyond question that arrests for drunkenness in this country have been mounting each year for several years. It would seem that the English are accomplishing without legislation what we, set out to accomplish ten years ago with a constitutional amendment and its supporting laws. We have made little progress on the road of temperance, most persons will agree. And the English have not had the illicit booze traffic, official corruption, gangsterism, invasion of personal rights and other evils that came w'ith prohibition. “Sinister” . Harry F. Sinclair does not deserve a pardon, says the attorney-general. So say we all. In his report to the White House on Sinclair's petition, the attorney-general found that Sinclair’s juryshadowing activities were conducted for sinister and ulterior purposes. < * . Instead, of trying to escape serving his short sixmonth sentence, the oil magnate should consider he is lucky in escaping a long sentence for his part in the Teapot Dome scandal.

REASON

PRESIDENT HOOVER may have entertained Arthur Brisbane because he wished some information to balance the misinformation he has received, for the famous journalist could give him pointers on several things. And if, inspired by Mr. Coolidge’s dividend-drip-ping pen, Mr. Hoover dreams of conducting a column after leaving the White House, Mr. Brisbane could tell him how to do that. a a a The world-known author of Today works in a corner about as big as a telephone booth and grinds out his daily tidings in the late afternoon after having given the best of the day to business affairs. He speaks his column into an Ediphone, suggesting every punctuation mark and proceeding at a clip which would make the best shorthand man step on the gas. a a a Mr. Brisbane believes that while it is important for a columnist to give the reader information, it is more important still to make the reader think, to throw an alarm clock idea throughvjhe cobwebby window of man, and this he does now and then. a a a I HE never went to college and at the age when most young men are freshmen, was holding down the job of London correspondent of The New York Sun, since which time he has ridden almost every animal on the merry-go-round of experience. His fame as a writer has eclipsed his success in business, but he can take a newspaper in the last stages of creeping paralysis and make it fit to run a marathon with its competitors. • a a a The Washington Star claims to have confidential information that Harry Sinclair's appeal for a pardon will be denied, compelling him to look at life in slices from behind the bars until Nov. 21. We trust you will bear up philosophically under this great blow. a a a As we understand this proposed naval reduction plan with Great Britain, it is a fifty-fifty arrangement. Uncle Sam is to make all the concessions and John Bull is to make all the warships. Whenever the United States gets into a negotiation with Europe, it suggests a missionary matching wits with a horse trader. a a a AFTER having all these delegations call* and demand that she run lor the United States senate from Illinois. Ruth Hanna McCormick says that she will decide what to do within a week, which reminds us of the justice of the peace who said at the end of a trial?s.*T will take this case under advisement until tomorrow morning, at which time I shall find for the defendant." a a a An Italian sc entist declares that ultimately the cockroach will rula the world, which prophecy sheu'd be a ray of hope to those who are now operating under the rule of Mussolini.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Civilization, as We Call It, Runs Largely to Light and Noise, Especially in the Bigger Cities. THE Governor of Kentucky and seven other members of the | state textbook commission have been indicted for receiving gifts. The gifts appear to have consisted of sample copies of arithmetics, geogiaphies, algebras and on, sent to them by nnblising companies. Two members of ttt% commission admit to having sold the textbooks j they thus received to second-hand | dealers in Chicago, which makes the offense look small, rather than heinous. | In the background is highly orJ ganized education on the one hand and highly organized business on the other, with salesmanship and theory combining to make things unnecessarily tough for taxpayers and children. Civilization, as we call it, runs to light and noise", especially in large cities. It anything, the eye stands the strain better than the ear. As between an arc light shining in the window and a riveter operating next door, or a truck running with its cutout open, those who try to catch forty winks between a late theater dinner and the alarm clock find the first least annoying. Illumination has the advantage of destroying darkness, but what advantage can be claimed for useless noise? a a u Churchill Criticises WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL, former chancellor of the British exchequer, thinks that if the police force he organized in Palestine had been retained, recent troubles would not have occurred. The force was discharged by the first labor government, but Churchill did not reinstate it on his return to office in 1924, a circumstance which tends to make his argument somewhat less than 100 per cent convincing. He admits as much by holding the labor government indirectly responsible for disturbances in Palestine because it dismissed Lord Lloyd, the British high commissioner in Egypt, “and thereafter published proposals involving the withdrawal of British troops from Cairo and Alexandria.” ‘The whole of the middle east,” he says, "Is related intimately. Beneatti the smooth surface of British rule and the slender garrisons which normally sustain it are smoldering the antagonisms of centuries.” Believing as he does, Churchill will find cause for even graver alarm in the announcement that the labor government intends to grant Iraq virtual independence. It is not only the irony of fate that he should have expressed himself regarding the cause of trouble in Palestine the same day that the announcement concerning Iraq appeared, but it reveals the fundamental difference between Tory and liberal views. Churchill is an imperialist, while Ramsay MacDonald is not. It would be practically impossible for the two to app'roaclT any problem connected with the British foreign policy in the Near East, except on directly opposite premises. Churchill sees no hope save in a benevolent British autocracy. MacDonald believes in less force and more friendship. u tt n Britain Goes Too Big THE proposal to grant Iraq virtual independence is quite consistent with the policy of the labor government. While it may shock extreme tories, it will not be displeasing to those Englishmen who realize that there is such a thing as biting off more than can be chewed, even for one of the greatest governments on earth, and that the British empire is becoming too big, rather than too small. Iraq is about as' large as *the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio put together, contains nearly three million people, and includes a territory once occupied by Babylon. Twenty-five hundred years ago it was one of the great centers of civilization, if not the greatest. In its midst was a flourishing city of a million inhabitants, surrounded by an irrigation system of canals and reservoirs such as the modern world failed to excel. Today, it is a rather sodden, backward country, with marsh lands fading out into the desert and with little to recommend it except possibilities of rehabilitation. The great cities that once flourished on its plains are mere mounds of rubbish, the post roads have dis--1 appeared, the gigantic temples and palaces have crumbled to dust, the immense ditches have become gulches and ravines. The Tigris and the Euphrates will bear wealth on the'r bosoms, but it goes to the sea instead of to the land ,as it did when Nebuchadnezzar reigned. All of which shows that the works of man are mortal, like man himself. and that if eternal vigilance ; is the price of liberty, it also is the price of progress. | Daily Thought \ And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.— I Samuel 16:17. Baa PLAY may not have so high a place in the divine company, but I it has as legitimate a place as place as prayer.—J. G. Holland. Who was the second, wife, of Henry VIII? Anne Boleyn. How is a golf score kept? W’hat do the terms par, birdie and eagle : mean? The total score is the number of j strokes taken in playing the round. Par for a hole or for the course is j considered the perfect score. If a ! hole is made in one stroke under nar. it is called a birdie; if it is ! made in two sirokes under par, it is a.n eagle.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Prolonged Nervous Strain Perilous

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. THERE are certain forms of blood pressure of which no one knows the cause. Forty-eight years ago the device for measuring the blood pressure was invented. Since that time, hundreds of thousands of observations have been made with this device and insurance companies particularly have kept accurate records of the examinations of all sorts of people. Those who have high blood pressure without Bright’s disease, without overactivity of the thyroid gland and without any other demonstrable disease, are said to be suffering with essential hypertension. Recently, Dr. Arthur S. Granger has analyzed some conditions associated with such cases. Many cases occur in people who are of what Is called a nervous

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“ti jrY congregation is white, and IVI I intend to keep it so,” said the Rev. William S. Blackshear of St. Matthew’s church it} Brooklyn. And Jesus Christ said: “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” By a somewhat disturbing coincidence these words of Jesus are set down in the Gospel of the very saint for whom the Rev. Blackshe&r’s church is named. a tt a Negress Weeps ON Sunday passersby on Thompkins avenue might have seen a young Negro woman coming out of the Episcopal church at McDonough street, crying bitterly. She had gone to worship and did not remain to weep. She wept because the young rector in the precise clipped speech of one who has been to Harvard and Oxford, too, interrupted the routine of the service to read from the church bulletin. He began by explaining that the Episcopal church which begins, “O for Negro parishioners and that there were havens of that sort within walking distance. “Therefore,” he said, “the rector of this parish discourages the attendance or membership in this church of the members of that race.” a a a Lead, Kindly Light JUST what the rector of St. Matthews did after this I do not know. He might, perhaps, have started that beautiful prayer of the Episcopal church whlh beginp, “O God, Merciful Father, who despisest

Questions and Answers

What is snake spit? A term for a form of algae on P hints.

Do turtles make any kind of noise? When startled, some turtles, Such j as the wood turtle, give a loud j snakelike hiss. The males of the < large Galapagos tortoises, according to Darwin, bellow or roar at the breeding season. The common painted turtles utter a piping note, particularly in the spring. What is the name and address of the owner of Rin Tin Tin? Colonel Leland Duncan, Warner Brothers Studios, 5842 Sunset boulevard, Hollywood, Cal. What is the definition of vegetable and fruit? A vegetable in the popular sense is any part of a herbaceous plant commonly used for culinary purposes, and may consist of the rootbeet and turnip; the stem —asparagus, celery, rhubarb, or what is botanically the fruit—tomato, bean, pea and eggplant. The tomato is both a fruit and a vegetable, though lor table use and in the garden market it ranks as a vegetable only. The same is true of cucumbers. The pumpkin and squash, which are botanically fruits, are classed as

temperament. In other words, due to nerve strain they are easily excitable, have headaches, nosebleeds and the hands are usually cold and perspiring. Many physicians are convinced that emotional stress is an important factor in temporarily increasing the blood pressure, so that a state of continual emotional- stress maymake the blood pressure permanently higher than it should be. It also is definitely established that high blood pressure tends to run in families. One physician found 95 per cent of his patients with high blood pressure had immediate relatives who also had high blood pressure. Another physician examined eighty-two cases of persons with high blood pressure and found that sixty-three of them had relatives who had died of symptoms indicating high blood pressure. Only recently it has been shown definitely that the glands of in-

not the sighing of a contrite heart the service according to the accepted ritual with, “I was glad when they said unto Me, we will go .nto the house of the Lord.” I have a grave suspicion that the Rev. Mr. Blackshear has somewhat mistaken his job and his function. Seemingly he has begun to assume that he is the chairman of Ihe committee on admissions and that the Lord’s house which he tends is one of the better country ciubs. There is no record Chao Jesus Christ ever said, “Love thy Nordic neighbor as thyself.” Oh, “I am the light of the white world.” Or even, “Suffer little Caucasian children to come unto Me.” And it is written that when Christ stumbled in carrying the cioss it was taken up by Simon, a black man from Cyrene. Yes, Simon was fit to carry the cross of the Man about to be crucified, but Simon could not come into the Brooklyn church and liTei}, to one of the edifying discourses of the Rev. William B. Blackshear, a a a Publicans and Sinners NOT in all the Gospels is it said that ever Christ turned upon any one- who came with faith in his heart and advised him that it would be more comfortable for all concerned If the newcomer would only walk down, seven bloc’.rs and take the first turn to the right. The Palestine of Christ’s day was a melting pot. Every creed and color was represented in the motley throng which followed the Master. And cripples came, sick men and beggars. They ate the loaves and fishes.

vegetables, while the melon which is of the same family, is termed a fruit Watermelons are classed as vegetables by the department of agriculture. When did the famous meteoric shower known as “the falling of the stars” occur? The meteoric shower which occurred in the early morning of Nov. 13. 1833, is thought to be the most brilliant on record, and is usually'referred to as the “falling of the stars.” It began about midnight and lasted until dawn, and was visible more or less over half the earth, including JJorth America, but not Europe; the number of meteors w estimated at 250,000 or more. No sound was heard, nor was any particle known to reach the earth. The U. S. naval observatory states that this stream of meteors was supposed to be the result of the disintegration of Tempel’s comet, which was not seen wMln last due In 1900, What is the value of a United States 25 cent piece dated 1864 and a half do lar dated 1833? The quarter dollars is valued at from .25 to 50 cents and the half dollars commands oo premium.

ternal secretion have an exceedingly close relationship to the action of the heart and the blood vessels. Most physicians are now convinced that the activity of these glands is related definitely to high blood pressure in many case.>. The records of the insurance companies seem to indicate that overweight may be related to high blood pressure and there is a wellestablished impression among physicians that small spots of infection around the teeth and tonsils are not infrequently associated with this condition. Quite certainly such repeated infections influence the conations oi the blood vessels and the heart. Asa result of his survey, Dr Granger feels that the heredity and the overirritability of the nervous system, controlling the blood vessels, are the factors of greater impor tance in causing those cases of high blood pressure in which no definite causes are to be found.

Ideals and opinions expresses in this column are those t. one of America s most interesting writers and are presented witboat regard to tne.r agreement oi‘- disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper —The Editor

Their manners no doubt w-ere most objectionable. The Rev. Mr. Blackshear, rector of St. Matthews', hardly would a Negro consent to accept the with any one in all the multitude who stood below the mount and cheered when it was said that the meek are blessed. tt tt tt Considerate? IAM willing,” said the Rev. Mr. Blackshear. “to administer to Negroes when they need me and can not obtain the services of Negro clergymen.” Here is once more the noble spirit of the martyrs. Others have gone to the lions, but the Rev. Mr. Blackshear actually would overlook the color line for the glory of God and the coming of His kingdom. But a thought strikes me. Under just what desperate circumstances would a Negro consent to accep thee ministrations of the Rev. Mr. Blackshear? Not, I think, if he were dying. What soul about to wing its way to God would care to linger even for a moment in the fastidious Oxonian hands of the rector of St. Matthew’s? (Conyright. 1929, by The Times)

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IRISH HOME RULE RIOTS Sept. 21. ON Sept. 21, 1912, riots occurred in Ireland as a result of the controversy about the third home rule bill. The riots were occasioned by anti-home rule demonstrations in Ulster, where opposition to such a plan was at a white heat. A measure called the government of Ireland bill had been introduced, providing for an Irish parliament consisting of a senate and house of commons, empowered' to make laws for Ireland, but certain classes of legislation were removed from its jurisdiction. Legislation over which parliament had no control included powers regarding peace, war, treaties, army, navy, trade, navigation, coast defenses, coinage, stamps, weights, copyright, religion and Free Masonry. The bill was accepted by all Nationalist Ireland in good faith as a fair measure of self-government, out the Ulstermen were opposed vigorously to the plan. Sir Edward Carson, the Unionist leader, had a narrow escape from injury during rioting at the Londonderry, when a large stone was dropped from the city hall into his open carriage, missing him by a few inches. Nationalists stoned torch bearers and bandsmen during an anti-home rule demonstration in Ulster. After much debate and further rioting the bill was passed and became a law in 1914, but its operation was suspended at the beginning of the World war. .. 1 1.-;'--. 5 ..

SEPT. 21,1029

SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ—"g The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory Is Doing a Great Work in Chasing Ramboics. IF a talking movie is ever made of the Dominion Astrophvsical observatory. the famous Canadian observatory at Victoria, B. C., the theme song might well be that old favorite of a few years ago, “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows." For chasing rainbows or to give them their scientific name, spectra. Is the chief activity of Director J. S. Plaskett and the astronomers of that observatory. In the eleven years since the observatory was opened, they have succeeded in catching no less than 17,800 of them. The observatory has a seventy-two-inch telescope, the second largets telescope in the world. The telescope, by the way, was made in the United States by the Warner & Swasey Company of Cleveland. This telescope has been equipped with a spectroscope, a series of prisms which takes the light of a star and spreads it out into a little rainbow. At the back of the spectroscope is a plate-holder in which a photographic plate is placed. The resulting photo of the spectrum or rainbow of the star is known technically as a spectrogram. The first spectrogram was taken at the observatory on May 6, 1918. Since them, the astronomers there have made and analyzed more than 1.600 spectrograms a year, bringing the total, as stated, to 17,800. tt tt tt Specialists THE policy of this Canadian observatory illustrates the extent to which specialization has been carried in the world of science today. Here is a great observatory, with equipment costing several million dollars, devoting all its time to doing just one type of work. Dr. Plaskett explains the policy by pointing out that by keeping the big telescope equipped for one type of work, hours of time and work are saved which would otherwise be consumed in removing one kind of attachment and putting on another. He also points out that the big telescope is constructed in such way as to be particularly well adapted to the making of spectrograms. All American astronomers feel that Dr. Plaskett and his associates have followed a wise policy. Because of the great size of their telescope, they have been able to get excellent spectrograms of stars which are. so faint that they could not be studied successfully with instruments of smaller size. Asa result, much light has been thrown upon, two of the most interesting problems facing mode n astronomers. One of these is .he question of the structure o. oar galaxy or universe of stars. The other is the life hi .ory or evo.utionary process of a star. A spectrogram, when analyzed, contributes information to both these subjects. For the nature of the little lines crossing the rainbow or spectrum indicate internal conditions in the Star and also indicate whether the star is moving to-, ward us or away from us and howl fast. u tt tt tt Giant Stars '■pHE question ol stellar evo. A is bothering astronomers much today. It is realized th. view held a few years ago was u.*’ too simple and must be developed in many ways. The older view was worked out by Dr. Henry Norris Russell of Princeton university, dean of American astronomers. Dr. Russell pointed out that th© giant stars, a star, for example, like Antares, which is 415,000,000 miles in diameter, are red in color and composed of thin gaseous material. He also showed that the very small stars, known as the dwarf stars, are also red in color, but composed of dense, heavy material. Stars of other color form an intermediate series. The giant-dwarf theory stated that a star began life as a red giant. As the star condensed, it became hotter, turning orange, then yellow, then white. Here a turning point was reached, the star now beginning to cool off and turning yellow again, then orange again, and finally finishing life as a red dwarf. Recent discoveries, however, show the existence of two classes of white stars, both white giants and white dwarfs, which do not fit into this simple scheme. Astronomers now think that the fife history of a star is very complicated, proceeding very slowly at times and very rapidly at others.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—l think the Fra* ternal Order of Eagles must be a magnificent set of men with big souls, and maybe God is using them to accomplish a great work. God is back of everything that is good, all good comes from God, but he uses men to accomplish his designs. The Eagles must be a grand set of men for the fight they are making for pensions for old people. Those opposing this should ntojf and think that some day they might be very glad to accept the pension as a blessing. In helping others, many times we are helping Ourselves. Let people in good circumstances remember that they have been born, but are not buried. There are 40,000 men in this order, and if each of them influences one, we can see what it would mean. One of the greatest things in life is to know that one has been a friend to someone, and in making this fight the Eagles are reaching out friendly hands to others. “Back to thyself in measured well All that thou hast given. Others woes should reach thy love, j Their safety from cold and hunger Would help to make thy heaven.* A THORNTOWN WOMAN, •