Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1930 — Page 4

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A New Attitude The prompt resignation of a city official on becoming a candidate for public office was so prompt as to suggest that it is a policy rather than an incident. It is to be hoped that this is true. It is so different from the attitude of the old machine, whose tactics were responsible for its defeat by Mayor Sullivan, that it justifies, as could nothing else, the action of the people last fall. Most political parties see no wrong in using power to obtain more power. It has been history that as soon as a man obtains an appointive office he looks forward to an elective one, and his prestige and power have been his assets. Political machines have been built in two ways. One is the giving of privileges to the influential. The other is the use of time and thought by cogs of the machine to political, not official, work. A broad policy that, every public official, appointive or elective, shall give his full time and thought to the service of the people would do much to restore confidence in government generally, and more to give real service to the people. If such a policy is followed throughout the entire administration of Mayor Sullivan the people will discover that they elected not only a mayor, but a Moses, last fall. An Amazing Situation To those who, a decade ago, expected that all prisons would be abolished as soon as the noble experiment got under way, the statement of Governor Leslie concerning the penitentiaries comes as a shock. So overcicwded are the prisons that it is necessary to turn men free before the expiration of their sentences. Such is the amazing situation. Certainly it is not one that brings any confidence in either law or the present penal system. The present handling of paroles and pardons is bad enough, blit to admit that leniency is prompted by a lack of proper quarters for prisoners is worse. There is nothing scientific or advantageous in giving the parole and pardon power to the boards of trustees who manage the different prisons. Their job should be the economic management. They should give their thought to the proper treatment of prisoners, to guard against conditions which lead to revolt and riots, which will build up the moral resistance of those who have committed crimes. A blow was struck at the penal system when the old pardon bca'-d was abolished. Whatever evils came into that system were introduced by bad selections of members of that. board, not from the system itself. Asa first step In selecting the overflow who obtain mercy because of the lack of cells, a separate pardon board should be established. Birth Control and Radio Tho. radio has admittedly become a major agency in present day education, salesmanship and propaganda Advocates of everything from world peace to new and potent elixirs for rheumatism and cancer send their seductive appeals through the air to the uttermost recesses of our vast country. The American Birth Control League imagined that It possessed a definite educational program which would benefit citizens of the United States. It recognized the remarkable powers of the radio in educational propaganda. So it decided to go on the air with its views. One hundred fifteen radio stations were approached with the proposition. Only eight expressed general approval of a lecture on birth control over the air. And only two of the eight—stations in Minneapolis and Buffalo—definitely agreed to permit a discussion of birth control. Twenty-nine of the 115 radio stations consulted wen controlled by institutions of higher learning that mlg.it have been expected to have a very special Interest in such topics as birth control. There is no doubt that we should exclude from the aii any material which it is illegal to disseminate through other channels. But no such question was Involved here. It was carefuly and specifically stated that all information as to methods or devices would be excluded rigorously from any lecture sponsored by the birth control league. It is clear that the radio should not be exploited by any group or agency to the exclusion of the views of opposing parties. Freedom of the air should be permitted to all sides of really vital and living issues. Birth control is certainly one of the half-dozen major issues of contemporary society. If the radio is to pretend to be a real educational agency, it scarcely can taboo anything of such proportions. And there is the less Justification for such exclusion when the broadcasting stations are open day and night to sermons and lectures by religious and social organizations opposed to birth control and its philosophy. To ktep birth control off the air is not only unwise; it is flagrantly unfair. “Yellow Dog” Senate confirmation of Judge John J. Parker as an associate justice of the United States supreme court may be refused, on the ground that his injunction decision in the Red Jacket mine case upheld a “yellow deg contract.” The American Federation of Labor and many liberals insist that is sufficient reason for denying Parker a seat on the supreme bench. We agree. We believe that a majority of senators and AmerLn citizens will agree, if they understand the meanIHfe of a yellow dog contract and the significance of /Jr anti-labor injunction upholding such a contract, fftirprislngiy, however, it appeared at the senate hearjgßgs on Parker that some of the subcommittee of did not know the nature of this noffprlous form of contract. ,* |S A yellow dog contract is one in which an employer §rces a worker to agree that he will not, while employed. join a labor union. I Well, what is wrong with that? If a man signs | contract, shouldn't he stick to it? Isn’t a contract; ‘*acred, and aren't the courts obliged to uphold a lontxact? If a union comes along and tries to get

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members from among workers who -are under contract not to join, why shouldn’t the employer request and the judge grant an Injunction against the union? Those questions can be answered by other questions: Why shouldn’t a white slave contract be valid? Why shouldn’t a peonage contract be valid? Why shouldn’t a contract made under duress be valid? In other words, there are contracts and contracts; some are valid and some are not. The reason a yellow dog contract has no place In a free country is that it is a form of peonage. It is made under duress. It says to the man who is out of a job and whose wife and children are hungry: You shall not work nor eat until you sell your liberty. It abridges the God-given and Constitution-given rights of the American citizen. And it destroys the established legal right of labor unions to organize. Even if a contract is valid, only in rare cases cun it be enforced legally by an Injunction. No judge who enslaves workers with a yellow dog injunction should be appointed to the supreme court by the President or confirmed by the senate. Parker’s friends advance an alibi. They say that in upholding an injunction against the United Mine Workers in the Red Jacket case, he merely was following the supreme court decision in the Hitchman case, which he. as a lower court, was obliged to do. There Is very good legal opinion denying that, the Hitchman and Red Jacket cases were analogous. There is very good legal opinion that Parker went far beyond the supreme court decision. But even though this legal opinion is brushed aside and Parker is given every benefit of the doubt, the fact remains that he did uphold the yellow dog contract. And the fact remains that he did not express disagreement with the Hitchman decision, which he might have done, even though he could not overrule the supreme court. There should be no doubt, therefore, of where Parker stands. But if the senate committee has any doubt, let it call Parker to explain in his own words what he meant by his yellow dog injunction. Important as this case is, it should not be allowed to obscure the wider issue. As we pointed out when he was named, he is essentially a political nominee who lacks the legal eminence required for the high position to which he aspires. . There is nothing in his j undistinguished record that, fits him for the supreme court of the United States. There is no evidence that Parker w’ould refuse to ■ join the supreme court majority, which has put its j personal opinions above the Constitution and the laws of congress and protected property rights at the expense of human rights. The curse of this country is that there are too many Parkers on the supreme court already. Sir Harry Segrave. holder of the world’s automobile speed record, was arrested in London for driving more than forty-five miles an hour. It is safe to assume Sir Harry didn’t say: “Why, officer, I’ve never been over thirty-five in my life.”

Add industrial depressions: Just at a time when a razor manufacturer launches a $10,000,000 campaign on anew razor, a fashion note announces that beards are coming back into fashion. The movie director who paid SIOO,OOO fine t* escape punishment for dodging the income tax now knows that money talkies, too. “When you are very clever,” says a writer, “you are shut out from a great number of common joys.” Pity the columnists. A Philadelphia saxophone band of sixty pieces is planning to serenade President Hoover. There’s brass for you. When former Secretary of State Kellogg said “something will come out of the London conference,” he probably had in mind another conference.

REASON

WHAT a kick Germany must get out of the endless wranging of the five great powers at while ago these very powers were brothers in arms, engaged in the noble enterprise of tying a can to the kaiser. Then they were swearing eternal fidelity: now they are trying to gold brick each other, all except Uncle Sam, the innocent bystander. a a a It Is" a mistake for Alvin York, work war hero, to attempt to “defend” his mountain people of Tennessee. for they need no defense. They are pioneers, and the pioneers, while quick tempered and straight shooting, is a great improvement on the output of mankind, yielded by the concrete mixer of standardization. a a a THE mountain people of Tennessee and Kentucky are the purest bloodest Americans to be found on the continent. Os course, many of them are moonshiners, for it seems to them a perfectly natural thing to turn their corn crop into its most profitable form. And they shoot out their differences, after the fashion of the pioneers, bu tthey have more character than those who commit wrongs, trusting to the law’s delays to protect them. a a a When it comes to patriotism, the mountain people are on the spot. The sharpshooters from Tennessee and Kentucky stood behind the cotton bales at the battle of New Orleans and picked off the British in Packenham’s army until there were hardly enough left to serve as pall bearers for the commanding general. And when the south seceded, these mountain people remained loyal to the Union. a a a LADIES and gentlemen, in the fifties should take warnmg from the casualties resulting from radical dieting and proceed with care to shave down their barrel-like forms. The willowy figure is a great proposition, but to slice off in a hurry a lot of lard that has been slowly added through the years has its perils. a a a A perfectly natural way to make the abdomen know its place is to indulge in regular and reasonable exercise, thereby gaining and accelerated circulation, a natural temperature and the opening of numerous pores which have ben gummed up for years by physical indolence. a a a William M. Evarts. the great lawyer, used to say that getting in and out of a carriage was sufficient exercise for anybody, but he was wrong about it. We have proceeded along that line with the automobile and found that it is not so. Walk four miles a day and your figure will take care of itself.

Rv FREDERICK ' LANDIS

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M. E. Tracy SAYS: We Are All Growing Dependent on Power, Whether in the Home, the Workshop or the Public Park. THE Fox case comes to a happy ending. With the fine Italian | hand of power revealed as groping about in another important field. Introduction of the talkies called j for electrical equipment; many thea- | ter operators could not put up the : cash lor its installation; besides, ! there were rentals and royalties after it had been installed. And so it goes—one great industry after another succumbing to the man who controls the switchboard and patent rights. And still we think of rates as the all-important question. b a a Muscle Shoals comes up for disj cussion in congress. The government owns It, we say, and why should the government operate it, to prove how cheaply power can be produced? In many minds that sums up the issue, but for those who live in riverless regions and are dependent on electricity derived from coal, gas or oil, it settled nothing. Even if a rate-making policy were extended to cover the whole country, still would be facing the menace of centralized monopoly. st a a Rain oads Squelched FORTY yiars ago, railroads constituted the biggest, bogey on our industrial and commercial horizon. They were watering stock, granting rebates to large shippers, corrupting legislatures, creating cities, and raising cain in general. The fathers of this generation had a merry time of it taking the railroads apart and making them behave, and heaven knows what might hve happened if the flivver j and the truck hadn’t come along. ! 808 tyaybe something similar to the I flivver and the truck will come j along to help us solve the power j problem, but no one knows. Power has become not only the i driving force of industry, but a! dominant factor in our social and recreational activities. We are all growing dependent on it, whether in the workshop, the home or public park. Through holding companies at the top, power is piling up enormous cash reserves. Through subsidiary companies at the bottom, it is establishing intimate control over the housewife, laborer, merchant, manufacturer and professional man. The power business, as repre- : sented by interlocking directorates,: research laboratories, patent rights j and political pull, contains such possibilities of economic domination by a comparatively small group of men as never before existed. u a a Must Be Confined THE public was right in raising a storm of protest when a great power company was discovered financing newspapers last summer, but if electricity and journalism should not mix, what about electricity and the theater? It requires no stretch of the imagination to realize how easily the power business could acquire control of one allied industry after another if permitted to go on unchecked. That being so, the first requisite of an effective public policy would seem to be absolute confinement of the power business within its own field. The power business is monopolistic in tendency. So, too, are many of its allied industries. That should give us enough to contend with, without permitting them to combine and coalesce. If it were necessary to take Standard Oil apart, or stop the meat packers from canning vegetables, it is doubly necessary to forestall such an electrical entente as would hold American commerce in the hollow of its hand. The idea that we can cope with this issue by flirting with a few water falls is utterly absurd. This country’s hydro-electric power, even if fully developed, would not satisfy' more than a fraction of its needs. The people who live in coal, gas, or oil areas are entitled to as much assistance and protection at the hands of the government as are those who dwell in river bottoms. Not only that, but all the people are entitled to protection against industrial despotism.

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KING ALBERT’S BIRTH April 8 ON April 8, 1875, Albert I, king of the Belgians, who won the: admiration of the entire world during the great war for his heroic stand against the Germans, was born in Brussels. At the beginning of hostilities in | 1914 Albert took command of the I Belgian army and directed in per- , son the first advance. From Oct. 12 to 24 he held off the invaders without any allied assistance. After the fall of Antwerp the king and queen sent their children to Eng- | land, while they themselves accompanied the retreating army. Albert remained with his troops during the whole war and made his headquarters where he was continually exposed to enemy fire. He made continual visits to the front line trenches and even surveyed the enemy lines from an airplane. After the armistice the king ar- 1 •anged anew government containing representatives of the three more important Belgian political parties. Both the king and queen were engaged actively in reconstruction work, Albert contributing considerable sums for the relief of war sufferers. The marriage of their daughter, Marie Jos.-, to the Italian crown prince this year, brought the royal Belgian couple once more into the spotlight.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Mineral Content of Food Important

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of tbe American Medical Association and of Hygeia, tbe Health Magazine. SINCE 1920 a group of medical investigators has been making repeated extensive studies of the factors that govern the regeneration of the blood after bleeding, and the relationship of iron to such changes. Iron seems to be associated particularly with the red coloring matter of the blood, called hemoglobin, which also is involved in the transportation of iron in the system. Among observations that have been made, certain factors are particularly striking. Liver, including that of pig. beef, sheep, calf and chicken, leads all other substances in causing regeneration of the blood, although the kidney and chicken gizzard have practically equal value. The tissue of other organs, such as the brain, the spleen, the pancreas, bone marrow and the muscles

IT SEEMS TO ME

YEARS before you were born there used to be a man in vaudeville named Charlie Case. Naturally, I was very young myself at the time, and Case was by all odds my favorite monologist. He used to describe a railroad journey he had taken with his brother Hank. By some mischance, the car in which they rode happened to contain 100 sheep. When the train stopped, a brakeman pulled Hank and Charlie out and began to beat Hank with great severity. “Well, now, you know Hank was my favorite brother," Charlie explained, "and I wasn’t going to stand there and see him abused, so I crawled under the freight car, over to the other side of the track.” And I think that some of us have done just that. We feel that if we are not actually seeing a thing, it doesn’t matter very much. Few people are callous in the actual presence of suffering, but plenty of us can stand it well enough if only we have some con-

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Editor Times—l learn from a friend who resides in our state th..c he had a visit recently from the Irish patriot priest, Father Michael O'Flanigan. Father O’Flanigan is a rare scholar, a real gentleman and a pure, unselfish Irish patriot, who was acting head of the Sinn Fein party in 1918-1919. What he doesn’t know about Ir. ’h affairs no one else does. It seems he kindly consented to discuss Irish affairs, and the general outlook in Ireland. Alluding to the “Shannon scheme,” he said it was not what it is pictured in the United States—l 6 cents a kilowatt hour for electric current in the homes of the poor in small towns. Oh, Indianapolis, we might congratulate ourselves. When asked if Sinn Fein has become reconciled to the Free State, he replied: “In about the same way a man becomes reconciled to appendicitis. He is wheeled into a hospital and given ether and what else can he do about it?” When reminded that De Valera himself now was a member of the Irish parliament, he said: "De Valera is a member of the Free State parliament; but you wouldn't call that an Irish parliament, would you? As Collins and the others swallowed the Free State with a smile, De Valera took it with a grin.” Would to God that Irish Americans would learn more about this bogus Free State, the most laughable imitation of liberty that ever was inflicted on a country or nation. There never was at any period in the Irish struggle a proved patriot who would fall for such an assortment of cunning strategy as this so-called Free State, championed by the Fitzmaurices and the other bloodhounds who were so

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of pork, beef and veal are about one-half to one-third as powerful as liver for this purpose. Practically all green vegetables, milk and other dairy products, salmon, codfish, raspberries and many other fruits and vegetables have little if any value in rebuilding blood after blood loss. Spinach, high in iron, has a more favorable effect than the other green vegetables. While apricots and peaches are poor in iron, they are more effective than any of the green vegetables or raisins, grapes or other fruits of high iron content. Apparently there are other factors, in addition to the iron, which are of great importance in the building of blood after blood loss. In an endeavor to find out just what the substances might be which had value in addition to iron, workers in the University of Wisconsin, after test feedings with various substances, and gradually trying various factors of the substance

venient freight car in between to block off the view. BUB Down to Cases I’D like to try my feeble best to move one or two of those freight cars. The first of these is the popular assumption that everybody now standing in the breadline is a loafer who would not work even if an opportunity were offered. It is quite true, of course, that some of the men are not capable of work. The handicap may be either physical or mental. Yet, even these indiviauals are not to be dismissed contemptuously, as worthy of no consideration. Let’s get down to cases: Mr. Z is 69 years old. He was apprenticed to a jeweler when 15 years of age. He worked at this trade for forty years. At one time he was a designer of jewelry and metal trimmings. His designs were known to the trade by his name, years ago. In 1915, when he was 54 years old, a serious illness impaired his eyesight and made it impossible for him to continue at his trade. For

eager in the pursuit of the immortal casement. Father O'Fianigan will return to Ireland May 21 to complete the edition of an ordinance survey of Ireland, made in 1834-41 by John O’Donovan, at the order of the British government. He expects in six months to finish the task, on which he already has been working for four years. T. D. DAHANER. 1362 Oliver avenue. Editor Times—l have read with interest the letters of Mrs. Carroll Collins in The Times. She is right in every statement. A married woman's place is in the home. If she does not intend to do her part in making a home for her husband, sha should not marry, and if a man can not support a wife he should not marry. I will venture to say that 90 per cent of the working married women would be minus mates if they quit their Jobs. If they think I’m wrong, let them try it. No self-respecting man will permit his wife to work. Furthermore, a man does not respect the woman who neglects her home and children for the pay envelope. The business men of American would do well to discharge all married women who are keeping ablebodied men and give these male parasites else to think about besides fine clothes and the latest model car. MRS. JOHN W. SCHMIDT. R. R. 10, Box 280, Indianapolis. DAILY THOUGHT He will laugh thee to scorn.— Ecclesiastes 13:7. A dismal, universal hiss, the sound of public acorn.—Milton.

found to be of special value, finally concluded that copper was the significant material. When this decision was made innumerable investigators quickly confirmed it. In the light, of this factor the substances found to have special value in blood regeneration were again studied. It was 'ound that the apricot, liver and kidney contained significant amounts of both copper and iron, and the copper content of apricots was higher than that of any other food studied. More and more investigators are coming to a realization of the significance of various salts and minerals in proper balance for maintaining the blood in good health. Discovery of the importance of iron, copper, manganese and similar materials has stimulated inj vestigation as to various contents of l these elements in all foods eaten by 1 human beings and by animals.

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years he has been doing odd jobs, mostly buying gloves, needles, etc., and peddling them. Recently he has been carrying sandwich signs—five hours for $2. Very tirescme. Also selling printed cards and calendars on very uncertain basis. Last job was a messenger at sl7 a week. He is now in good health, except that he is badly in need of glasses. All of his possessions are on him. Glad of any job. Would work here or in the country. That is an honorable record. Today Z is on the breadline. a a a Case of Mr, X AND here is a very brief history of Mr. X, who Is in his early 40s and has done nothing but a few odd jobs in the last five years. It might be fair to class him as a floater but for the curious fact that he worked steadily at the trade of carpentering for almost twenty years. He made SSO a week. Five years ago his wife died. X lost interest and ambition then. This would seem to be a case for a psychiatrist. Incidentally, I think it reasonable to accept all facts given as truthful in the main. Good liars are very seldom reduced to the breadline. Another popular illusion is that no persons belonging to organized and specialized trades are on the breadline. Here is the story of Mr. Y: He worked as brakeman for a large eastern railroad for six or seven years. One day he lent his railroad pass to a friend. The deception was discovered. Y was fired. He can’t get a railroad job now because if he says he is an experienced brakeman, the facts of his discharge will come out. He must pretend to be a novice eand start at the bottom, all over again. Jobs for nonces are scarce. tt a tt Shall Not Pass TO be sure, it was wrong for Y to lend his pass to a friend who wanted to ride free to Albany. But Y has been out of work since September, and is now on the breadline. And although the business about the pass was strong, the extreme sternnes of the railroad may seem to have in it just a tinge of irony. Within the memory of man. there was a day when every road in the country used passes for petty graft. Railroad executives gave passes to congressmen, and state legislators, and mere political hangers-on. These passes were lent to relatives and friends. The practice has been stopped by law. No railroad president is on the breadline. In case after case, there is no reason why these men should be out of work except for downright bad luck. I think I speak for myself and most of the readers of this column in saying that a succession of unfortunate breaks could bring every one of us to precisely the same spot. (Copyright. 1930. by Tin Times)

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of ine of America's most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude ot this paoer.—The Editor.

APRIL a 1930

SCIENCE ' BY DAVID DIETZ North Pole Is Problematical Point in Sea of Drift Ice; South Pole Is on Latid. THE difficulties of Antarctic explorations will be better appreciated if the difference between the north and south polar regions la kept in mind. Within the Arctic region, the area above latitude 60 degrees north, there live more than 1,000,000 people. There are countless land animals and some of the world's most valuable forests. It is true that the north pole itself is a mathematical point in tho midst of a sea of drift ice. But thi9 sea is surrounded on all sides by land easily reached from the morepopulous regions of Europe and America. The south pole is on land. But lti Is land surrounded by a forbidding sea of drift ice. Within the Antarctic region, the area south of latitude 60 degrees south, there is not a permanent human inhabitant nor an animal larger than an insect. There are no trees and only a slight and scanty vegetation. The only industry in the region ia whaling, and that can only be carried on during a few months of tho year. The Antarctic continent itself has an area of more than 5,000,000 square miles. It is equivalent in size to Australia plus Europe with tho exception of Russia. The south pole Is in the Interior of this continent. B B tt Ice Cap THE Antarctic continent is hard to approach. It is necessary to sail at least 600 miles to reach it. In addition, it is necessary to battle the roughest seas and strongest winds known to the world. This is because there is no land between the latitudes of 55 and 65 degrees south. The absence of land means that there is nothing to interfere with the west and east circulation of the water and winds. Here in this belt there is a continuous west to east drift of the seas and a continuous west wind. The belt of continuous drift accounts for the rigors of the climate in the Antarctic. Most- of the Antarctic continent is a high plateau. Tire south pole itself is situated at an altitude of more than 10,000 feet. The average elevation of Antarctica is believed to be about 6,000 feet—about the height, for example, of Mt. Wilson in California. The continent, as already mentioned, consists of about 5,000,000 square miles. Os this, all but about 100 square miles is covered with ice the year round. The gigantic mass of ice which covers the entire continent is known technically as the Ice cap. From this ice cap extend the glaciers which reach down to the sea, sometimes coming down to the sea in ice-worn vaileys, in other places merely extending to the sea as a great sheet of ice hundreds of miles long. The average thickness of the ice cap Is about 2,000 feet. BBS Barriers THE sea surrounding Antarctic is filled with great floating sheets of ice known as the ice barriers. These barriers are derived largely, from the ice cap on the continent. The largest of the barriers, known as Ross barrier, is in Ross sea. It is about as large as the area of France and ranges in thickness from 500 to 1,500 miles. The outer edge of this barrier is toward the open sea. The inner edge is held fast to the continent, joining up with the glaciers which extend down from the ice cap. At the approach of warm weather, large pieces of ice break off from the barriers, forming huge icebergs. The sea ice itself Is temporary. It begins to form near the end of January. By March a ship is likely to be frozen in. It becomes thicker as the year progresses. By October or November it may be as much as seven feet thick. It begins to break up in December. The lowest temperature so far recorded in Antarctica is 77 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. This, however, was near the sea and it is thought that lower temperatures are experienced in the interior. No month of the year has an average temperature appreciably abov% 32 degrees, Fahrenheit, the freezing point.

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Tuesday, April 8 THE WISDOM OF DUTY Read Romans 15:1-9 (Memory Verse: “Bear ye one another’s burdens.” (Galatians 6:2.) MEDITATION Many people do not like the word duty. A friend remarked recently: ‘‘l hate the word duty. I have heard it all my life. I wish I might never hear it again.” “Duty” meant to him a line of conduct demanded by somebody else—a load laid upon him from outside, without his consent. Duty is not something that others require of us. It is something that we require of ourselves. It is a !ine of conduct that we must pursue toward others if we are going to arrive at ourselves. It is the road to that stn.se of inner satisfaction that is, perhaps, to a nonnal person the best indication that he is realizing his true relation to his fellow-men. , Regarded in this way duty is not ‘ irksome bondage, but the road to life. PRAYER "As neglected duties come now to mind, help us to go back and faithfully discharge them, lest we stand at last condemned before thee, and lose beyond recall the jof of having done thy will upon earth, to < make heaven about us.” Amen W. E. Orchard.