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“The Letter of the Law” Many weird interpretations of the law have featured the prohit Uon decade. The latest is perhaps the most novel. It is brought forth as the doctrine of ■ observation evidence" by District Attorney G. E. Johnson of Chicago. Hereafter, Johnson says, any restaurant or cabaret proprietor will be liable to a year in jail if it can be shown that one of his patrons used one of his glasses to drink liquor brought into the restaurant by a patron. The great cry in behalf of prohibition enforcement is always for complete observation of the very letter of the law We are warned that disobedience of one iaw breeds contempt for ail law. Every good American, therefore, should yield to the prohibitory law, even though he personally does not believe in it —for prohibition is ‘‘the law of the land." Now, assuming for the sake of argument, that such attitude toward all law whatsoever and whether-or-no is the correct one—though this nation would not have been founded if such had been the attitude toward the laws of King George—how will we apply the philosophy to this "observation evidence proposition? Let us follow through on it: In the first place, drinking in itself Is not illegal in ths country, under certain circumstances. The Volstead act itself legalizes the possession and the drinking of whisky and wines for medicinal purposes. So does the state law of Illinois. Moreover, the act does not specify or limit the place or time where medicinal liquor can be consumed. Directions in that regard are left to the physician. Neither does the Volstead act say in what kind of container medicinal liquor shall be kept or carried. Such being the case, what might legally happen to a bottle of prescribed spirits in Chicago? The bottle bears these directions—"two ounces before meals." The patient, however, is not bed-ridden. He, in fact, is a transient, living temporarily in a Chicago hotel. He decides to go to a restaurant for this particular meal, restaurants having a way about them of servng meals. Not wanting to carry his prescription in a container that is both bulky and fragile, he pours a portion of flic contents into a metal flask. No law against that. The patient proceeds to the restaurant. There he complies with the doctor's orders. He secures a glass, pours the allotted two ounces, and obeys the prescription. At the moment. District Attorney G. E. Johnson, or his agent, steps forth. He arrests the restaurant proprietor and heads him for the hoosegow. No law has been violated. Nothing in the Volstead act or the state lasv calls for a restaurant proprietor preventing a man from following a doctor’s orders. But the proprietor, nevertheless, is arrested, and thereby deprived of his liberty. Who then is violating the law? Who under that creed of strict enforcement should be chastised? Certainly not the restaurant proprietor—or the doctor—or the patient. No one of them has viola tea a law. If any one. we should say that that bureaucratic gentleman. G. E. Johnson, creator and exponent of the unlegalired and fantastic doctrine of “observation evidence,” is the one who should be spanked. For if anybody has run foul of law under the circumstances he has. But. however that may be, it is certain that all those zealous advocates of complete subservience to all law will not agree with this, but instead will say that the newspaper which prints it is seeking to destroy the Constitution of these United States. And so wags the world along toward the tenth anniversary of “The Experiment.”

Army Marches Over President Agencies of government, once created, persist with tenacity. They inevitably tend to expand, and resist with remarkable vigor any attempt at curtailment. This fact again has been illustrated by the army appropriation bill, now under consideration by the house. army. The President last July pointed out that this President Hoover is commander-in-chief of the country's military outlay was greater than that of any other nation in the world, and at a time “when there is less real danger of extensive disturbance to peace than at any other time within half a century.” “Our whole situation certainly is modified by the Kellogg pact.” he added. He warned against the rapid rate at which military expenditures were growing, and urged “prudent action” by congress to give relief. Hoover had the general staff of the army name a committee to survey the military establishment, with the idea of finding ways to reduce expenditures. What the committee has been able to accomplish we do not know. But the army appropriation bill for the next fiscal year actually is larger than for the current year, despite the President's efforts. The bill allows $337,858,194 for strictly military purposes. compared with $331,338,442 for the current year. The bill probably will pass as written, and may be increased in the senate. Apparently the President's attempt at economy in our military expenditures will not bear fruit at this session of congress. Shearer’s Bomb Is Dud That naval bomb exploded by the propagandist Shearer turns out to be a dud. It rocks the country, all right—but with laughter. The country will recall that this self-styled big bass drum of the militaristic lobby did a lot of boombooming on the subject of a secret British plot to take over the United States. His “proof” was an alleged official British document slipped to him, he said, by United States naval intelligence officers. Os course the document was a fake on the face of it. And no one was surprised when it was revealed to be merely an amusing burlesque of British war-time propaganda, written and distributed by Dr. William M. J. Maloney of New York, and barred from the mails more than ten years ago. Testifying Defore the Senate investigation committee Saturday, Maloney reminded the committee that the obvious hoax had been widely carried by the Canadian press as a joke and had been reprinted, together with a statement by him, in a New York newspaper as long ago as 1921. At that time State Department agents interviewed Maloney about it. Such is the famous “secret document" which the Navy Department later palmed off on Shearer and which was used to help break the Cooildge Geneva

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arms conference and to put the cruiser building program through Congress. All this has been known for many months and published by the press. But it did not become official information, apparently, until read into the Senate hearing record Saturady. That having been done. Chairman Shortridge now intimates that the investigation is finished and the committee has adjourned without plans for further hearings. We are grateful to the committee for giving the country a good laugh. But we had not supposed the committee considered that easy task the extent of its duties, in the face of the dangerous big Navy propaganda and lobby denounced by President Hoover. When the investigation started, we pointed out that the cruiser companies and naval officers implicated were trying to make their agent Shearer, the sole goat. They have succeeded—if the investigation is to stop now’. It Is clearly the committee's job to go on until it forces the armament companies and naval officers to reveal these things: Who ordered the naval intelligence officers named by Shearer to give him the fake document, as genuine and for propaganda purposes? Is it true, as appears from the testimony of Shearer and newspaper men, and as stated by Admiral Fiske, that Shearer’s views and activities were in accord with those of the high naval officers co-operating with him? Who lied in the conflicting testimony of Shearer and Charles M. Schwab as to the responsibility for the three shipbuilding companies sending Shearer as a secret paid agent to the Geneva conference? Who forged the signature of Sir William Wiseman, former British intelligence service chief in this country, in the fake Navy Department “document?” Why should ship building companies, guilty of the propaganda activities, denounced by President Hoover, continue to receive cruiser construction contracts from the government?

An Old Lesson Relearned Ideas are like dynamite, perfectly harmless if exposed to the air; very dangerous if confined. This is an old lesson, but one, it seems, that must be relearned over and over again by excitable and prejudiced Americans. Los Angeles just has relearned it. Dr. Frederick W. Roman, eminent author, traveler, and educator, was scheduled to speak on Soviet Russia, which lie recently visited, in a series of talks before the Los Angeles teachers’ institute. Someone discovered that he was “blacklisted," along with Bertrand Russell and others, by the women's advisory committee of the Los Angeles county Republican central committee. He was suspected as a red. a harborer of "subversive ’ ideas. The G. O. P. ladies aroused the Congress of Parents and Teachers. These aroused the Los Angeles school board. The school board brought pressure upon the institute program committee. Dr. Roman was asked to withdraw as a lecturer. The other day Dr. Roman's Soviet lecture was printed in full in a Los Angeles newspaper. It proved a shock to the patrioteering ladies, for it wasn't even pink. It was highly critical of the Soviet regime. Had Dr. Roman's talk stayed corked up, that very fact would have given color to the rumor that one of America's big educators was a red. It certainly would have given the reds another argument in their claim that free speech in America is a joke. Uncorked it proved harmless. How long will it take us to learn to trust in the sanity and the safety of free speech? It's a fine for little folks to go sledding now, if they don’t try to coast through life when they grow up.

For the ten years ending with 1926 we passed 230.000 more laws than were already on the statute books. And one of those has been broken quite frequently, we understand. We spend $600,000 each year to guard the mails, according to government reports. But even that doesn't prevent your receiving letters telling you all about that new remedy for bunions. There were 1.500.000 people over 10 years old in this country in 1920 who could not speak English. Probably the influence of the sports pages.

REASON By FR LANmS K

MR. COOLIDGE may discourage all those who call him ‘‘Mr. President" by replying that he is president of nothing but the American Antiquarian Society, but there is no great probability that the colonel who got his title by serving on a Governor’s staff will follow the Coolidge precedent. a a a This sudden increase in crime which followed on the heels of Chicago's reduction of her police force argues that the fear of arrest and punishment does exert a certain restrain, the arguments of some experts to the contrary notwithstanding, and if we could only make punishment swift and sure, as Canada does, the restraint would be castly multiplied. a a a That was a beautiful symbol of a reunited coun try down at Marysville, Mo., when Nat Sisson, 88, former bugler in the union army, sounded taps over the grave of his friend. H. P. Childress, 92. former bugler in the confederate army. st a a ' I 'HE most striking thing about this marriage of Princess Marie Jose of Belgium to Prince Humbert of Italy is that the girl went to the fellow’s house to have the knot tied. a st st Richard Joshua Reynolds, young scion of the multi-millionaire American tobacco family, said on being released from an English prison where he served time for killing a man while driving an automobile while intoxicated, that the feature of prison life which displeased him most was being compelled to go to chapel twice on Sunday and once on Thursday. but if he had acquired the habit earlier<in life he might not have gone to prison. a a a Opposition to jury service down in South Carolina should be somewhat reduced by the decision of the supreme court of that state that the jury in a liquor case may take the booze to the jury room and drink it. a a a Germany insists that the colonies she lost by the war be restored to her, but we can imagine the mountainous laughter which would have rocked the Hohenzoilern outfit had France insisted that AlsaceLorraine be restored to her after the Franco-Prus-sian war;

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Work Has Become the AllImportant Factor in Civilized Life. j \ CCORDING to information compiled by the national industrial conference board, the American people are paying more than twelve billion dollars a year for government in one form or another. Assuming that the country's annual income amounts to ninety billion dollars, this means that two of every fifteen dollars earned go into the public treasury. It also means that the cost of government equals more than SIOO for every man, woman and child, or more than S4OO for the average family. a e tt Os the total amount require for governmental expenses, about onethird goes to Uncle Sam, somewhat less than one-sixth to the states and a little more than one-half to counties, cities, towns and districts. Whatever it may have lost by way of liberty, local self-government still makes the lion's share of the cash. Since 1923, the per capita expense of the federal government actually has gone down, while the per capita expense of state government has gone up less than $3. The per capita expense of local government, however, has gone up more than SB. tt tt tt Work Is All-lmporant TT GOES without saying that much of this increase in the cost of government is due to a public demand for better schools, better roads and better police and fire protection, and better service all along the line. But some of it is due to such arbitrary salary raises as recently occurred in New York, when the mayor’s pay was jumped from $25-,-000 to $40,000 a year, and that of his principal associates in proportion. Under such circumstances, it is refreshing to learn that Detroit firemen turned down a 5 per cent raise, which would have abounted to $216,000 this year, and which, as Captain Joseph A. Creed puts it, “should be used to employ men who need work for the necessities of their families.” a a o Work has become an all-impor-tant factor in civilized life. Under the old order, men could provide it for themselves, but under the new order they can not. Organized industry has made work a social problem. It now is generally recognized that governments not only are obligated to help people find work, but provide it in cases of emergency. Not only that, but it is recognized that failure to do this may involve dangerous results. tt tt tt ' Mussolini Foiled THE situation in Italy furnished a vivid illustration of how lack of work, or low wages, can upset the best laid plans. Having brought Italy under Fascist rule, having stopped strikes and suppressed political discord, having devised a system by which merchants, manufacturers and farmers were to co-operate for the country's development, and having established what, looked like a surefire dictatorship, Mussolini started out to increase the birth rate. He wanted the population of Italy to be 80,000,000 by the end of the century, he said, and with that end in view, taxed bachelors, authorized bonuses for children and autographed his picture to be hung in the homes of large families. tt tt tt Most people' took it for granted that Musolini would succeed. He had accomplished so many apparently impossible tasks that no one doubted his ability to accomplish this one France began to make plans for a greatly enlarged Meditei’ranean fleet, and every international conference proceeded on the assump - tion that not only a stronger, but more populous Italy would have to be reckoned with in the near future. For once Mussolini w 7 as v’rong. Instead of rising, the Italian birth rate is falling. In some of the cities like Bologna. Florence, Fiume and Trieste there were more deaths than births in 1929. o a a Too Little Pay THE explanation is not hard to find. Too many women at work in the mills, too little pay to make babies desirable. Too hard to make both ends meet, without more mouths to feed. II Duce thunders for restoration of the hearthstone, with happy marriages and many children, as did his great predecessor, Augustus, two thousand years ago, and the church does what it can to back him up, but the masses remain indifferent', doing the best they can to protect themselves against want. How many actors are employed in moving pictures in the United States? The changes in production make it impossible to say exactly how many actors are employed in the various film companies at one time. Generally speaking, there are about three hundred major actors, of whom about seventy are stars. There are probably 1.000 actors who receive screen credit by having their names published in the cast. Eleven thousand extras are registered at the central casting office, although only about 750 requests for extras are received daily. What is broccoli? How Is it cooked? A late maturing and more hardy form of cauliflower. To prepare cut off the stalk and all the leaves. Wash thoroughly and soak head down ip cold water for at least thirty minutes. It may then be boiled in salted water for twenty to thirty minutes and served with cream or hollandais sauce. Cheese is often sprinkled over it after it has been cooked and is ready to serve.

APE YOU TRYING . • • KID ME? WHY YOU PAY ),! , HIM that much akd ill //w/,/ BET FIFTY CENTS HE CANT HIT ONE OUT OF THE INFIELD?

Carbuncles May Prove Serious

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN. Editor Journal of tUc American Medical Association and of Hyeeia. the Health Magazine. A CARBUNCLE is an infection of the deeper layers of the skin and of the tissues under the skin, usually caused by a germ of the streptococcus group. When the resistance of the tissues to infection is weakened by such conditions as ruV'lng with a saw-edge collar on the back of the neck, the projecting edge of a broken corset steel or from similar material, wnen the person has diabetes or Bright's disease, or a diet containing too much of some substances and not enough of others, the tissues fail to exert sufficient defense to prevent the streptococcus from setting up its infection. When the infection starts the tissues become inflamed and red; the white blood cells are brought to the part affected, where they at-

IT SEEMS TO ME '* H = D

YORK has just lived through the most extraordinary’ riot In its history. It was necessary to call out the police reserves because a mob of 3.500 people fought to get into the Museum of Natural History to hear about the Einstein theory. In former days people rioted about bread and beer, but this time collars were torn and heads bashed for the sake of science. Quite possibly a nest of mathematical speakeasies will grow up in the neighborhood of the museum, places where one raps three times at door and says. “I’m a friend of Charlie Duckworth's.” Once inside the door, the natron will be able to get stellar space and ether at 75 cents a throw. My feeling is that if New Yorkers are hungry for higher mathematics, it should be served. Evidently the theatrical managers have guessed wrong. They have gone along in the same old way, giving people plays about sex and crooks and money, with never a

Tunes Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—Your editorial on the purchase by the city of the water system recalls the admission of Mr, Slack in his suggestion of the above, that “he had no definite information as to source of the titles of ownership of the canal by the water company.” Quite a number of years ago one of our mayors advised the city attorney to investigate, which was followed to acer-

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AMERICAN FLAG Jan. 13

ON Jan. 13, 1777, congress decided the thirteen United States needed an American flag emblemal’'c of their union. Although a flag of thirteen stripes had been displayed previously, it was not until June 14, 1777, that the continental congress passed a resolution “that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen star, white in a blue field, representing anew constellation.’’ Origin of this design has been the subject of much controversy, though many writers have considered it to have been suggested by the coat of arms of the Washington family, which contains both the stars and stripes. Paul Jones claims to have been ; the first to raise the stars and stripes over a naval vessel, and it seems that the first use of the new flags on land was at Ft. Stanwix, where a hastily improvised emblem was raised Aug. 3, 1777.

A Study in Values

-DAILY HEALTH SERVICE-

tack the germs and pus is formed in large amounts. The tissues then begin to wall off the infected area; a pocket is formed with a center of degenerated and infected material. One of the great dangers of such a condition is tne breaking down of the wall of resistance and the spread of the infection throughout the body. When the physician is called to examine such a case, the first thing he does is to determine whether any contributing diseases mentioned is present. If it is. he at once takes steps to control it, limiting the amount of carbohydrates and of sugars that are taken into the body. He will relieve the pain by the application of hot moist dressings. These serve also to bring more blood to the part affected and aid the attack upon the infection. When a considerable amount of pus or infectious material is present,

word about parallel lines and their rendezvous at infinity. a a tt Geometry SINCE managers boast that they give the public what it wants, some effort should be made immediately to present a drama dealing with plane or solid geometry. Why have the Shuberts been so inactive while this Einstein racket was gathering momentum? Fortunately, I am in a position to offer producers just the entertainment which is needed to appease the mathematical mob. I have just finished a musical revue which is to be called, “I love My Einstein, but, Oh, Euclid!” The first scene should be sufficient to make it a smash hit. As soon as the curtain rises, twenty chorus girls walk slowly across the stage, in full view of the audience. They wear, among other things, pink tights. There is no song, no dance, and not a word is spoken. But if proper type casting has taken place, the effect should be enormously exciting.

tain point, and for some reason dropped. The matter should be taken up again by our new administration and definitely. If not legally acquired, the city should realize a handsome rental for past and future use of the canal, as well as for the use of other public property, namely, our streets. If these were owned by individuals, they would not be given up without financial returns. Now is the time for a real business administration and an opportunity for the mayor and the city utility district to make themselves a name : for posterity to bless, by starting ; the ball rolling for municipal own- | ership of the water works. There is plenty of capital right here at home i for safe investment. CHARLES H. KRAUSE SR.

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What is poetry? It is the emotional interpretation of nature and life through the imagination, in beautiful and metrical language. What is the population of Pennsylvania? The 1928 estimated population was 9,854,000. What is the capital of Soviet Russia? Moscow. Are the Tarzan stories fact? They are pure fiction. Are there any desert lands in Spain? There is much arid land in Spain, but no desert worth speaking afc ■

the carbuncle or boil must be opened and the infection permitted to drain. The physician does this carefully so as not to break down the retaining wall and spread the infection. The pus should be withdrawn as rapidly and completely as possible. If the infection seems to be spreading, it is customary to inject a local anesthetic around the infected area at a distance for enough to be in sound area and then to open the infected area widely so as to be sure that all infectious material is removed. Nothing breaks down the health of human beings so quickly and certainly as long continued infection. Hence it is advised that patients who have been suffering with multiple boils be provided with a good routine hygiene which will build their general resistance and prevent continuous formation of new infected areas.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one, of America’s most interesting writers and arc presented without retard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

I think that by the time the fifth girl in the line has passed by, a buzz of comment will come from spectators in the front rows. One firstnighter. after gazing long and hard at the girls in tights, will bo unable to restrain himself any longer. His happy shout, “A straight line is the shortest distance between two points',” will ring through the house. From the lobby the news will pass out along Broadway. There will be dancing in the streets, and somebody will wake Mayor Walker, to tell him the good news. A Fifth avenue mob in front of the Plaza will kill a man who maintains that light travels in curved lines. tt tt a Euclid AFTER the first scene it will be unnecessary for the chorus to appear any more. The rest of my comedy concerns the more intimate life of Euclid. The scene is Alexandria, where the great Greek scholar went to teach. This will make it possible to introduce Cleopatra. And as the Nile has been doing nothing through all the centuries except just roll along, the fact will bet mentioned in a song called “Old Gal River.” The first act is outside the home of Euclid. Although it is after 3 in the morning, all the lights in his apartment are going full tilt. He is working on the sum of the squares on the other two sides. The poor man can’t seem to strike a balance. He is just a nickel out of the way. A woman passes under the window and speaks to a soldier. He rebukes her by pointing to tne shade behind which the sage is working. She blushes and goes home, resolved to study plane geometry, and be a better girl. T wonder whether he’ll ever get it,” remarks a traveling man from Jericho. “I’ll lay you two to one against it,” says a gambler from Juda, who is under the impression that Euclid has been fixed, and that the proposition is in the bag.

Eureka JUST as a big clock strikes 4 to a Waltz tune, Euclid’s window flies open. “Eureka!” he cries, stealing another man’s stuff, and to the accompaniment of four Hawaiians strumming “Old Gal River,” he demonstrates from the second floor on a small blackboard that the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. But Freud doesn’t come in until the next act. He and Pythagoras and Einstein and Thomas A. Edison are discovered in a speakeasy, splitting an atom. Whenever anybody draws a geometrical figure on a piece of paper, Freud starts to hum. “Mighty Lak a ” but the rest of the crowd knows Freud and always stops him before he can go on. The Shuberts need have no fear. “Oh, Euclid,” is a clean show. Sitt Zittlff

JAN. 13, 1930

SCIENCE -By DAVID DIETZ

Einstein's Unified Field Theory Held Outstanding Contribution of 1 ear to Progress of Science. AS the world entered upon the year 1930. scientists interviewed in Dcs Moines at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, agreed that Professor Albert Einstein's “unified field theory" was the oustanding contribution of the year just passed to the progress of science. They felt that its importance exceeded that of the feat of the Graf Zeppelin in circumnavigating the globe, the marvelous strides in television, or any of the other accomplishments of egineering or applied science. The "field theory” is an abstract and highly complicated mathematical paper showing how it is possible to deduce both the law governing gravitational phenomena or a “gravitational field” and the laws governing electromagnetic phenomena or an “electromagnetic field" from the same mathematical formula. In attaching the Importance which they do to this abstract mathematical formula, scientists arc taking their cue from a lesson ol the past. When the great English mathematician, J. Clark Maxwell, published his "electromagnetic theory of light," it was just such a mathematical puzzle as Einstein’s new theory is at the present moment. tt tt tt Radio JUST as only a handful of mathematicians in the world comprehend all the “field theory,” so it was said that only a handful understood Maxwell’s theory. Several well-known scientists stated publicly that they did not know what Maxwell was talking about. The difficulty was that no one knew exactly what Maxwell meant when he claimed that light consisted of electromagnetic waves, for no one ever had dealt with electromagnetic waves. But a few years later Professor Heinrich Hertz, attemptnig an experimental verification of Maxwell's theory, discovered the existence of other electromagnetic waves. These were named Hertzian waves in his honor by other scientists. Today the world has another name for Hertzian waves. It calls them radio waves. It will be seen therefore, that radio with all Its important developments, broadcasting. trans-Atlantic telephony, television and radio control of airplanes for example, had their beginnings in the Maxwell theory of light. It is interesting to note that all Einstein’s theories, the special theory of relativity, the general theory of relativity aid the field theory are based, as Einstein himself states, upon extensions of Maxwell's equations. What practical results will comp from the Einstein theory is a thing which scientists hesitate to predict, The suggestion has been made that perhaps it will lead to a means of insulating against gravity or overcoming the pull of gravity. Scientists hesitate to commit themselves to any prediction. But, they feel that the Einstein theory, pointing out new fundamental relations in the universe, is sure to have important results.

Surprises LOOKING ahead to 1930. sclenj tists hpsitate to say what the big scientific developments of the vear may be. They point to the fact that in laboratories scattered through the world, there are scientists who have been engrossed in problems for years, in some cases five years, in others twenty. Any of these may reach a successful culmination in 1930. It is easy to point to many such examples in the past. The discovery of insulin, the treatment for diabetes, burst upon the world with drama Me suddenness. The research which led to insulin, however, occupied Dr. McLeod and his associates for a dozen years. Among the field in which intensive study is going on and in which 1930 reasonably can be expected to bring new developments are such widely separated fields as the nature of the atom, the mechanism of heredity, the origin of man and the nature of cosmic space. Study of the nature of the atom has been given tremendous Impetus by the development of the Schrodinger wave mechanics, according to which the atom can be treated mathematically as a wave In "sixdimensional conflgufation space.” Like the Einstein theory, this mathematical puzzle may lead to unsuspected, but important results. Heredity now is believed to be controlled by the genes as biologists have named the constituents of the chromosomes or red-like structures in the nuclei of living cells. The development of a technique by which X-rays can be used to study the genes has given biologists a powerful research implement which may yield important results. Study of the origin of man will be aided by the present Intense interest in anthropological and archeological research. Astronomers at Mt. Wilson, California, using the world’s largest telescope, and mathematicians at the California Institute of Technology, are co-operating in a study of the nature of space.

Daily Thought

Therefore, thou are inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou Judgest another, thou condemncst thyself: for thou that Judgest doest the same things.—Romans 2-1. * a m Wise judges are we of each other! —Richelieu. Where is the American Fails dam? How large is it, and what purpose does it serve? It is on Snake river. Idaho; 73 feet high, 4,971 feet long and has a storage capacity of 553.946,000.000 gallons. It cost $3,060,000 to build and 1* used tor torigattofc