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The F’rison Situation The killing of one prisoner at Michigan City by another, who, it appears, was released from the insane ward, not because he was cured, but because there was no room for him there, suggests that there should be a survey of condition* in prisons in this state. Other states whose prisons were overcrowded have had some very tragic experiences. In nearly eveiy case, the cause of these tragedies was found to be overcrowding, poor food, lack of employment for prisoners. The same unemployment that faces men outside of prisons is being reflected in the prisons. The various enterprises operated under ihe contract system are suffering. In one of the state prisons it is reported that several of the factories are entirely suspended and men formerl> employed in them are now idle. Idleness for men outride of prisons is bad enough. Inside a prison it becomes intolerable. When overcrowaing is added, the stage is set for almost anything. Other states have utilized to advantage, many prisoners in the building of roads. Still others have provided farms. Outside work has been effective in restoring not only health but self respect to many convicts. Expert penologists recommend it. That insane convicts are allowed to mingle with the sane prison population for no other reason than that there is a lack of room in the insane wards demands immediate action. Indiana should have no prison problem. It has enough problems to solve for the orderly and free.

The Tarfiff Got Him American manufacturers grow flabby under excessive tariff protection. That has been said, in one way and another, by many persons worth listening to. Said Henry Ford: “Comfortably tucked away behind a tariff wall which completely shut out all competition and which gives industry an undue profit which it has not earned, the business of our country would grow soft and neglectful. We need competition to keep us on our toes an dto sharpen our wits.” Said Alvan Macauley, manufacturer of the Packard car: “Manufacturers are opposed to any tariff which serves simply as a subsidy to the progressive manufacturer who would prefer government aid of this character to undertaking the trouble necessaiy to improving his own methods’ lowering his costs and so benefiting industry and the public generally.” • + * So much for the effect of tariff greed upon those who obtain excessive protection. Now for the effect upon those who provide this excessive protection. It is even more disastrous. Statesmen who once start upon this path find it has no end. They find the tariff appetite grows with what it feeds upon. Lik the drug habit, they can quiet its addicts only with more drugs—more tariffs. And it drags its purveyors down with it. The tariff-takers have held political power of two kinds, one direct and the other indirect. They have been able always to supply campaign funds to candidates. No other source of such funds has been so inexhaustible, since the return has come multiplied in tariff benefits. ' Indirect power has rested on the fiction, long believed, that high tariffs mean high wages—that the kind manufacturer passes the benefit along to his employes. That fiction has meant votes. The tariff beneficiaries have had the power to reward and to punish, or, at least, they have caused statesmen to think so. Tuesday in Pennsylvania the best little tariff booster of them all was given cause to doubt this. Grundy, himself, failed to get his reward. But the fear of the tariff-beggars still chills the hearts of many statesmen in Washington. * * * There is Dill, senator from Washington state. Probably no better example of what the tariff does to men can be obtained among all the pitiful spectacles seen in the national capital. Dill’s life story reads like a volume by Horatio Alger or a success yarn in American Magazine. As a small boy on a poverty-stricken Ohio farm, he declared his ambition to go to congress. He never lost sight of that goal. He obtained his political training under Tom Johnson, Cleveland's famous progressive mayor. At Johnson's suggestion he went west to grow up with the country and it was from the state of Washington that he entered congress—a progressive Democrat and the youngest member of the lower house. He remained steadfast to his principles during the terrific stress of the World war. H(? cast an antiwar vote when he knew it meant his defeat for reelection. But he came back to Washington in due time and as a member of the upper house. He has remained there, making a creditable record. • • * The tariff battle came and Dill's political principles went overboard. Lumber is his state’s biggest industry' and the lumbermen yelped loudly for protection. Even the house, willing to protect almost any-, thing, gagged at this. Dill decided to heed the yelp. Wnen the bill reached the senate, he helped protect lumber, vv hich the house had left on the free list. But that was a doubtful victory, because the house leaders were expected to remove the Dill rate when the bill went to conference committee. Meanwhile, the senate voted to curb the power given by the house to the President to alter rates. A majority of the senate, and Dill was one of them, held this to be unsound, if not actually unconstitutional. The senate-house conference committee, to which the bill presently was sent for the adjustment of differences, sent this clause—commonly called the flexible clause— back to the senate for another vote. The result was a tie. 42 to 42. Vice-President Curtis broke the tie by voting to allow the President this vast power of taxation. But it wasn’t the Curtis vote that was significant. It was the vote of Senator DHL * Dill shifted and voted for the President’s flexible

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clause. Otherwise the tariff bill opponents would have won. A day or so later the house-senate conference committee, to the surprise of all, agreed to the tariff on lumber that the manufacturers back in Dill’s state desire. Dill has gained, or has reason to believe he has gained, the good will of the lumber interests back home. Whether this offsets what he has lost depends on your point of view. t In any case, this is the sort of thing tariff does to men. What Is Speedy Justice? When the two parties hold their conventions, the delegates might seek a definition of that speedy Justice which is guaranteed by the Constitution. Does it mean that men must wait years for a final decision or the courts and that speed is a relative term, indefinable and wholly unimportant? Or does it mean that the courts are under obligation to render final verdicts within a reasonable time? When it comes to the nomination of candidates for the highest court, the delegates should at least pledge their nominees to a program that will promise to the people of the state a reasonable alacrity in solving disputed questions of law and fact. The constitutional provision for speedy juustice was not an idle phrase. It was calculated to protect the citizens from being kept in jail, forgotten and without arial. It was also designed to bring to swift justice in criminal rases the guilty so that the law should not be defeated by protecting the powerful through interminable delays. Especially was it calculated prevent justice from being amputated by delay in appeals. The record of the present supreme court should be studied by both party conventions before nominations are made. It is possible that the conventions will decide that the record shows reasonable compliance with the Constitution. They may decide that one of the causes of growing suspicion of courts is in delay. It may be suggestive that no final decision in any one of the political convictions daring the expose of corruption in this city has been made. Duval, convicted, is stilt on bond. The case of Klinck is still pending. There are others. Perhaps the legal questions are so involved as to make the task difficult for a court constituted vs is the present one. That might raise the question as to the desirability of a different court. It is just possible that a ringing declaration in party platforms, reaffirming belief in the Constitution insofar as it relates to swift justice would dispel some of the apparent lethargy. The End of a Cruise Alas for the frailty of heroic aspirations! A deep pit has been digged beside the pathway that leads to romantic achievement, and nothing is sadder or more melancholy than the way in which those who try to follow that pathway keep tumbling into it. Some time ago one Nicholas George Gongopolus of Miami, Fla., decided to sail back to his native Greece. He contrived for himself a sixteen-foot cutter, sent the Greek flag fluttering to the masthead and set sail It was to be a gallant, glamorous cruise—one man in a skiff defying the Atlantic. Ulysses himself, or Jason, might have approved of this sturdy countryman. But now the voyage has ended. It ended three days out, when Gongopolus asked a tramp freight steamer to pick him up and abandoned his cruise. He was not out of supplies nor in danger from the elements —but he was horribly seasick! A more melancholy end for a gallant adventure would be hard to imagine. When Experts Disagree When experts and patriots disagree, the common man hardly can be blamed for being rather badly puzzled. This London treaty, now: Admiral Pratt, commander of the fleet, says that the fleet that It gives us “suits me,” adding that he is the chap who would have to fight with it if war comes. But Admiral Jones excoriates the treaty bitterly, declaring that it condemns us to a position of permanent inferiority. While all this is going on British conservatives rise in the house of commons to condemn the treaty from another standpoint. They say precisely what Admiral Jones is saying, only they say it other-end-to; that is, they attack it because it “condemns Britain to a position of inferiority at sea.’’ Well, what’s the answer? Can the common man be blamed for putting the whole business out of mind and devoting himself to worrying about the baseball game?

REASON

Nicholas Murray butler, president of Columbia university, and who may be found there once or twice a year, just has delivered a speech in london, abusing the tariff bill, now in conference at Washington. u tt tt I This tariff bill is far from perfection and it is all right to criticise it here, but nobody but a cheap skate ♦will go abroad and speak lightly of anything in his own land, whether it be a woodpecker, a landscape or an act of legislation. M tt Butler long has made annual pilgrimages to Europe to kowtow to everything on the other side, and causes Europeans to gasp that one so marvelous could issue from a land so hopeless and now and then to say something to embarass our government’s policies. nan THE state department should muzzle all Americans who make fun of their own land on foreign soil, and it should provide thta they shall keep still about matters of public policy. The tariff is a highly controversial matter just now, and Butler has poured oil upon the burning opposition in Europe. Rather late in life this erstwhile champion of high tariff nds it vicious to guarantee a profit to anybody; we have always known that it as vicious, that the only decent measure of protection was the dierence in the cost of production here and abroad. But so long as the profit was guaranteed to great manufacturers Butler was able to restrain himself. nan ONLY when it was invoked to help staggering agriculture did Nicholas Murray discover that it is highly reprehensible. In other words it was all right for the east, but it is all wrong for the west. m n tt By way of retaliation, European statesmen, who do not like us anyhow, strive to erect a hostile economic unitl on the other side which will xclude our exports, and just while they are at it Butler drops his hot criticism of his own country’s tariff, speeding up the blood of our enemies. n n This distinguished nuisance should be brought home and parked at Columbia university, where students might get to see him once in a while and whee his powers for national embarrassment would be reduced to a minimum. *

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Diamonds in the Sky! May Is an Excellent Month to Make Thorough Study of the Stars. THE present month of May is an excellent one to get acquainted with the earth’s brothers and sisters, for a number of them are now spectacular objects in the night sky. If you look to the west just after sunset, you will see two objects glowing in the twilight like great beautiful diamonds. The brighter of the two—and also the one nearer the horizon—ls the earth’s sister, Venus. The other one, which is higher in the sky than Venus, is Jupiter, the big brother of the solar system. Earlier in the month, the baby of the solar system—Mercury—was fairly close to Venus. It could be picked up without difficulty with a good pair of prism binoculars. On several nights, when the sky was very clear, it was even possible to see it with the unaided eye. Mercury was in best position for observation on April 27. It was then at its greatest distance from the sun or its “maximum elongation.” However, it was cloudy that evening at this observer’s station. I succeeded, subsequently, in seeing Mercury with the unaided eye on May 2 and 3. At present, however, Mercury is too close to the sun to be seen. nun Saturn THOSE who elect to stay up after midnight may have a look at the ringed planet, Saturn. The rings, of course, can not be clearly seen without a small telescope, although their existence is revealed to a certain extent with a good pair of prism binoculars. Most people have difficulty in seeing the rings of Saturn with binoculars, because they can not hold the binoculars sufficiently steady. However, if the instrument is rested on a window ledge or some other support, there should be no trouble in making out the rings. Saturn rises, or comes up over the eastern horizon, at about midnight. It is directly overhead, or “on the meridian,” as the astronomers say, at about 3 a. m. Those whose devotion to astronomy is sufficient to keep them up all night or cause them to rise early also may Indeed have a glimpse at Mars this month. Mars rises about three hours before the sun. It may be seen low in the eastern sky, therefore, in the hours preceding sunrise. It fades from view, of course, as do the stars, once the sun begins to illumine the eastern sky. The foregoing covers the positions of the planets with the exception of Uranus and Neptune, the outermost planets of the solar system. (For the moment we will neglect the newly found Planet X whose status still is unestimated.) Neptune is not visible without a telescope. Uranus, though usually visible as a faint object to the unaided eye, now is too close to the sun for observation. n n n Motions THE motions of the planets as we observe them in the sky, are the combination of real and apparent motions. The sun is the center of the solar system. Actually the sun is moving through space at a considerable rate—some astronomers think it is as much as two hundred miles a second. But since it carries the entire solar system along with it, we can think of the sun as standing still as long as we are dealing only with the solar system. All the planets, including our own earth, are revolving around the sun. When we observe the sky, we have, first of all, an apparent motion due to the earth’s rotation on its axis. This rotations makes all the celestial objects, sun, moon, planets and stars, appear to rise in the east and set in the west. Next we must take into account an apparent motion which is the result of the actual motion of the earth in its orbit around the sun. To these apparent motions we must add, in the case of the planets, the real motion of the planets around the sun. What we observe, therefore, in the case of the planets is a combination of real and apparent motions. We see the planets and other celestial objects as though they were projected upon the inside of a dome. This apparent dome is sometimes called the celestial vault. When we say that Uranus is too near the sun for observation, we mean that the position of Uranus as projected on this dome is too near the sun. In reality, this means that the line of sight to Uranus passes too near the sun. Actually, of course, Uranus always Is about 1,780,000,000 miles from the sun.

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QUEEN VCTORIA’S BIRTH May 24 ON May 24, 1819, Alexandria Victoria, queen of Great Britain and Ireland, in whose reign England is said to have arisen to a greater position in the world than it ever had attained before, was born at Kensington palace. She was the only child of Edward, fourth son of George 111, who died when she was only 8 months old. On the death of her uncle, Wiliam IV, Victoria succeeded to the throne at the age of 18. Three years I later she married Albert, prince of j Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, by whom she had nine children. Her reign was distinguished by j great movements of vast importance. In the thirties came the first victory for the reform of the system of electing members of parliament. In the forties the battle for cheap food was won, and the tax on imported corn removed. In the sixties the cause for national education I was won and the education act of! 1870 was passed. The strict standard of propriety; which she set for her court had a wide social influence and was reflected in the L’terature of the perod, which has become known as the Victorian erat - , , m \t4

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Value of Antitoxin Is Established

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. FROM 1884 to 1894, according to the records of the New York department of health, there' were 507 deaths in every 100,000 children in that community. Then antitoxin was discovered. From 1894 to 1904 there were only 147 deaths in every 100,000 children. During the last ten years, according to Dr. William H. Park, who is director of the bureau of laboratories of the health department of New York City, there has been on an average only thirty-eight deaths for every 100,000 children. Indeed, in 1929, there were only 450 deaths altogether from diphtheria in New York City, which brings the rate down to twenty-five out of every 100,000 children. Coincident with the drop in deaths there has also been a drop in the number of cases. There were about 15,000 cases of diphtheria in New York City in 1898 and 8,000 in 1929, notwithstanding the tremendous increase in population. These results have been brought about by the systematic use of

IT SEEMS TO ME

OVER in New Jersey, Representative Franklin W. Fort is running in the Republican senatorial primary as a dry. But it seems to me that this estimable gentleman is out to win the all- comers’ straddling championship. Os course, he can expect keen competition from his fellow politicians in Washington. He must meet and conquer men who have made straddling a lifelong art. The big coach in the picture postcards which is shown being driven through a giant California redwood tree could be enlarged three-fold and still pass easily between the knees of some of our senators. Just the same. Fort is going to win the title. Some may dispute that he is dry at all. Indeed, the New York World has bestowed upon him the highly appropriate label “kitchen wet.” You may remember Mr. Fort as the gentleman who undertook to solve the whole prohibition question satisfactorily by the process of the government’s keeping its hands off brewing in the home. tt a u Those Dry Heretics SOME of the other drys have accepted this heresy with eagerness. I heard Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart give voice to the same theory in a debate with Clarence Darrow 1 . The gentleman from lowa said that nobody was interfering with Mr. Darrow’s personal liberty. Mr. Darrow, according to the senator, was legally entitled to concoct beer and wines in his own house, provided that they were not intoxicating in fact. The courts have made some decisions which seem to show that some edge above the Volsteadian limit of half of 1 per cent may be achieved in this manner. But to me it sounds like a silly arrangement. In days of old, beer was made by people who knew something about the process. The high art of the Germans was always a bit beyond

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—That certainly is a bright idea of Mr. Wisehart’s, making it easy for children to find work when married men with families can not find it. Os course, the manufacturers are in favor of it. Why pay an older man $25 a week when a 16-year-old child will work for sl2? It is bad enough now with all the married women working. There should be a law during an unemployment situation like this whereby no married women would be employed if their husbands were working. My husband and many others have been out of work for a long time. What chance will they have if Mr. Wisehart’s plan goes through? A TIMES READER.

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antitoxin and of toxin-antitoxin in the control of this disease. Few people understand the difference between toxin, antitoxin, and toxin-antitoxin. When a horse is injected with the poison which diphtheria germs develop, he develops in his blood a substance which opposes the poison of the diphtheria germ. The poison is called toxin. The material in the blood which opposes the poison of diphtheria is antitoxin. If a child does not have enough of this antitoxin in its blood to overcome diphtheria infection, the physician gives it antitoxin to help it. If a child has been exposed to diphtheria and it is necessary very promptly to give it something to help it ward off the disease, antitoxin may be injected. However, this antitoxin does not protect for a long period of time. It must be remembered that it has been elaborated in animals and not in the patient’s own body, and that therefore its effects wear off in about three weeks. Os course, if a person has diphtheria, the antitoxin when injected helps to overcome the disease and

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the capacity of any of our local practitioners, but they were improving at the time that prohibition cut them down. Now, if Franklin Fort is in any sense a spokesman for the drys, it almost seems as if the eighteenth amendment might well be re-en-titled, “An amendment to impair the quality of beer.” This is the strangest moral concept which yet has cropped up in a land turned topsy-turvy by the incantations of dervishes asserting divine inspiration. It is, as I understand it, a crime and a sin to drink good beer—a sin and a crime punishable by penalties ranging all the way up to sudden death. But Mr. Fort and his friends say that it isn’t a crime at all to drink bad beer. It was a wicked and a horrible thing, they say, for men to walk around the comer and in a public place regale themselves with steins and schooners. a tt Wear Them Out TO be sure, Mr. Fort and his friends may have in mind a subtle plan. They could quite possibly reason in this wise: "The making of beer is a somewhat arduous and difficult process. Give the wets enough hops and they’ll soon hang themselves. After a few futile years of experimentation every American will turn from the cauldron in his home and say: ‘And is this the stuff for

Questions and Answers

Who made the first successful parachute jump? The first of which there is record was made in 1787. in Strassburg, by a man named Blanchard. Was the little boy who played the part of the district attorney’s son in the motion picture “Skin Deep” the same one who appeared in “The Singing Fool” with A1 Jolson?” Davey Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lee of Hollywood, Cal., appeared in both films. Where does cactus grow? Aside from a few African species, the 1,000 known forms are restricted to America. How many Swedes are there in the United States? According to the last census there were 1,485,063. What do mealybugs look like? How can they be eradicated from plants? * They look like little downy white tufts on the under side of the leaves, along the veins, or In the leaf axils and on the stems of plants. They often form large masses and are difficult to eradicate. An effective method is a soapsuds bath, followed by the removal of every insect. A splint or toothpick will be found helpful in dislodging them. A dose search should be made each day until

when the person recovers he has developed in his own body his own antitoxin, which is one reason why one seems to have this disease twice. If one is injected with small doses of toxin or poison, he builds up resistance to diphtheria in his own body. If it is desirable to stimulate his resistance-building factor still more, it is necessary to give him larger doses of toxin. However, such procedure would be unsafe. Therefore, it is customary to add antitoxin to the toxin, w’hich prevents it from working harm, but not prevent the body from responding to the injection of the toxin by building up more resistance. Few people realize the background of the way in which the body opposes disease. The process is called immunization. The terms vaccination, inoculation, injection and similar terms refer to the fact that the substance is being put into the body so the body builds the materials to oppose it. More than a million children have been immunized in New York with toxin-antitoxin, and without a single harmful result to any of them.

(deals and opinions expressed ‘.n this column are those of ne oi America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude ol this naner.—The Editor.

which I am exhorted to bleed and die and vote? It’s not worth it. Send to the druggist, mama, and order a couple of gallons of celery tonic.’ ” But if Mr. Fort reasons in this fashion he reckons without due consideration of the genius and perseverance of the American people. Already certain sections of the population have shown what Yankee stock can do in spite of difficulties. It would be fantastic to assert that in ten years’ time gifted individuals here and there have shown that gin can be made in obscure bathtubs. Gin has become the wine of the country, but the flavors compounded abroad still elude us. On the other hand, we lead the world in labels. Cosmopolitans used to say that America had no artistic instincts. Now we can ram that lie down the lips of these supercilious globe-trotters. Let them look in any speakeasy at the rows and rows of local Scotch in bottles. Did Rembrandt ever achieve any more glowing colors than are to be found on these tags and inscriptions? In the beginning, American label art was open to the charge of being imitative. A faircopy of the coat cf arms of Gordon gin was considered quite sufficient. That day has ended. Bolde-.* and braver spirits introduced originality. They began to use names and designs never before seen on land or sea, much less in Scotland. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

eradication. When practicable the plants may be held under a faucet, or other forceful stream of water and the Insects washed off. Treatment should be repeated frequently. Was Woodrow Wilson the yjungest President of the United Siates? Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest. What is the theme song of Gloria Swanson’s picture “The Trespasser?” “Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere.” Who was in command of the world cruise of sixteen American battleships in 1907? Admiral Evans was in command from Hampton Roads to San Francisco, where he turned the fleet over to Admiral Sperry. The ships sailed from Hampton Roads In December, 1907, and returned early in 1909. Is there an American language? There is no American language, although Henry L. Mencken wrote a book entitled “The American Language,” the purpose of which was to show how different the common American idioms are from those used in Great Britain and other English speaking countries. Nevertheless, the language of the United States is English.

MAY 24, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS: Throw the Dial Telephones Out of the Window and Put the Girls Back at Work. "T'VE done with him,” says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Ills 71st birthday, referring to Sherlock Holmes. “I’m tired of hearing myself described as the author of Sherlock Holmes; one would think I had written nothing but detective stories." Sir Arthur is mistaken. Most every one knows that he has written a great deal besides detective stories, but the general opinion prevails that he has written nothing as good. Sherlock Holmes lives between the covers of too many books to be killed even by his creator. If there were more characters like him, the publishers would not feel compelled to cut the price of fiction to improve the market. a b tt Still, the writers of fiction face something worse than the lack of originality. The realities of life, as made possible by accumulated knowledge, have outstripped personal imagination. What the world can do and is doing makes better reading today than what any individual can evolve from his inner consciousness. Even Jules Verne has lost caste, with airships circling the globe and commercial television just around the corner. B tt tt Human Nature the Same r\NLY human nature remains the same, and even that shows signs of yielding to environment. Still, it is reassuring to find men and women wrangling over appetites, prejudices and problems which perplexed their ancestors 10,000 years ago. What a drab life this would be if we could not argue about marriage and divorce; if congress lacked something to probe, and if the tariff were to go out of business as an issue. A nation-wide investigation of the reds; an alleged crematory in Chicago where gangsters burn their victims; a general debate as to what the Pennsylvania primary means; a New York judge on the griddle in connection with an unexplained fee—how natural it all sounds. u tt b Having expressed itself with regard to the supreme court and having welched on the tariff, the good old senate redeems its reputation by turning thumbs down on dial telephones. Do not pass this by as an inconsequential act. The senate has done nothing in the last ten years that causes more people to, heave signs of satisfaction. Asa matter of fact, the country had about given up hope of relief from this abominable device by which the telephone company was getting rid of one-fifth of its girls by compelling the public to do their work. Out With the Dials AND Just to keep the record straight, let us remember that Democrats, not Republicans, led the good fight against dial telephones. Whatever may happen to prohibition as an issue for 1932, or farm relief, or the naval treaty, here is a rallying cry for the minority party. Brought to its senses by Senator Glass of Virginia, and shown the light by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, with the solid south urging them on, the greatest deliberative body on earth comes to the rescue of a long-suffering humanity, and strikes a body blow at one of those devilish devices which not only torture the souls of flustered housewives and tired business men, but enable holding companies to collect unconscionable dividends through patent rights. a b Os all contraptions designed to fool people in the name of progress, to filch money out of them in the name of economy, to make them do work for which they already had paid, and interfere with the kind of service they were supposed to get, the dial telephone caps the climax. Evry state legislature, every city council, and every private enterprise that is not subsidized, or scared, should take courage from what the senate has done, throw the dial telephones out of the window, and put the girls to work.

Iffiw Wel/'Doyou I ‘JCnow'y&urWbJe? § FIVE QUESTIONS A OAV B ON FAMIUAR PASSAOES gt VIWWVPVIVIVIVWIIA 1. How did Solomon decide the ownership of the child whom two women claimed? 2. Where did John write the Book of Revelation? 3. Who was “a stranger in a strange land?” 4. What does “from Dan to Beersheba” mean? 5. When does the Passover begin, and how long does it last? Answers to Yesterday’s Queries 1. Balm, or balsam; Jeremiah 8:22. 2. A member of the early church of Jerusalem, who lied about the price of the property he had sold and withheld part of it from the church; Acts 5:1-5. 3. Hercd’s killing of all the children in Bethlehem 2 years old or less; Matthew 2:16. 4. “Then the Lord will take me up.” Psalm 27:10. 5. Moses and Aaron, to Pharaoh; Exodus 5:1.

Daily Thought

Be thu faithful unto death.— Revelation 2:10, an n Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. — Cicero. What is the smallest denomination gold piece ever Issued fcjr the United States treasury? The one dollar coin.