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Repealing the Primary That a grand jury which failed to indict any one after discovering evidence of corruption and fraud should advise the repeal of the primary law is not at all surprising. It is now fashionable to blame the primary for everything that happens in govertjnent. Os course, it would have been more logical had there been a recommendation that safeguards be placed about the ballot and that it be made more difficult for combinations of politicians in both parties to vote the names of dead men and fictitious personages. , It would have been even better had there been recommendations for more definite responsibility for frauds so that it would be easier to convict those under whose eyes frauds are perpetrated with such apparent ease. The record of the primary is not 100 per cent. But it compares most favorably with the results of conventions as far as obtaining either good tickets or representative tickets. The convention becomes the easy tool of the manipulator. It can be handled by those who meet in secret. Its decisions aie most often the result of anger and enmity rather than calm and deliberate judgment. Instead of a repeal of what is left of the primary, a short ballot and a more complete use of it for nominations would probably result in better government. A movement to restore the primary for senators and the governorship would not lack support in the next legislature.

Naval Die-Hards No one will doubt the patriotic motives of the little band of senate die-hards and aged admirals who are trying to kill the London naval treaty. But they should be reminded of one simple fact, which they seem to have forgotten in the heat of their fight. The fact is that this is a democracy, supposed to be ruled by the majority. Even if all the imaginary dangers of the London treaty were real, they could not menace our nation as much as an attempt at minority dictatorship within the government itself. Now the country is overwhelmingly for treaty ratification. The senate is for it approximately four to one. Nobody denies that. Such being the case, it is the right of the majority to ratify the treaty, no matter what the consequence may be. It is the right of the small minority to state, its case to point out the dangers which it professes to see. But there the right of the senate minority stops. If it can not win the vote in a fair fight, it has no fright to stoop to trickery and delay, to stab the treaty In the back. There has been no effort to silence the minority. On the contrary, it has been given an unusual amount of time in two senate committees, instead of the customary one, to probe the facts and stress conclusions. . . . ~ On top of that, the minority has stated its detailed objections to the treaty in a public appeal. That appeal has been studied and has been rejected by the administrarion and by public opinion genopportunity is to be given the minority on the senate floor during the special session. But then the vote should be taken. There no legitimate excuse for delaying the verdict It is the duty of the administration to expose and to fight efforts to prevent a vote until the hot weather and political chores back home drain the senate of a quorum and force adjournment without action. In considering the minority arguments, the public has noted that the British and Japanese treaty opponents are using the same arguments The big navy groups in London and Tokio say. as the Washington big navy group says, that the treaty puts its own particular country at a disadvantage and imperils national defense. This situation in itself is pretty good proof that the treaty represents some sacrifices by each country. and that no one profits exclusively at the expense of the others. < And that is clear also from the terms of the treaty, all of which are open, none of which involve secret agreements. In company with a great many Americans, this newspaper thinks that the London pact is far from perfect, and that it is much less a reduction agreement than might have been achieved had the American delegation and administration stood by the original Hoover reduction pledges. Nevertheless, the treaty does grant the United States approximate parity with Britain in all classes of ships, which never was granted before, and it does preserve American naval rights. Refusal to ratify the treaty would break the faith of other nations in our peaceful intentions and seriously would impair international relations. That must not occur.

Buncombe Lives It Down Back in the sixteenth congress old Representative Felix Walker, debating the Missouri question, gave his home county of Buncombe, North Carolina. a dubious fame and added anew word to the American language by insisting that he was “bound to make a speech for Buncombe." But Buncombe county has anew and better bid to fame. L. R. Alderman, adult educational specialist in the United States bureau of education, appealing for his Inspiring cause, tells of a movement In that mountain county that well might be studied by business men and analyzed by economists. In 1919 a teacher named Mrs. Elizabeth Morris landed in Buncombe. She found there 7,000 tdult Illiterates, and “civilization at its lowest ebb.” She started an adult education movement in a small way. It spread. * Today, more than 4.000 of these grownups, with an average age of 30, are attending night school, learning to read newspapers and books, to add and subtract, to emerge from the jungle of ignorance. “Business men there tell me that this movement has transformed the whole community,” Alderman says. “The new enlightenment has reflected itself not only in a spiritual liberation, but in greatly increased buying power.” Alderman says there are some 20,000,000 Americans who, like the mountaineers of Buncombe county,

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are "functionally illiterate." Imagine, he says, what it would do for prosperity if every one of these could be brought up to the buying standard of even the average American family. New desires are created, desires for soap, sheets, window-shades, shoes, as well as a taste for newspapers and books. Here may be found one answer to our problem of overproduction. A Lagging Program The average citizen probably takes it for granted that the federal government with its string of national forests, is doing all tha: need be done in the direction of reforestation. However, Charles Lathrop Pack, the well-known president of the American Tree Association, declares in the July Review of Reviews that insufficient appropriations and decentralized organizaton are keeping the program from being put forward at anywhere near the proper pace. "At our present pace of planting ’’ he says, "it will take more than I.COO years to reforest the areas that we devastated in less than a century. We are witnessing today the progressive pauperization of townships and counties that thrived so long as timber lasted, and which are now slowly dying and literally going into bankruptcy.” Mr. Pack knows the situation, probably, as well as any man in the country. His words are not at all comforting. Apparently we need an entire new reforestation program if our forest resources are to endure. America’s Rise in Aviation European nations popularly are supposed to be far ahead of America in the use of commercial aviation lines. Now, however, the American Air Transport Association is quoted by World’s Work magazine as asserting that America leads Europe in air passenger travel—which is both surprising and gratifying. London's famous airport, Croydon field, handle* 1,358 passengers in one month, and in the same month the airport at Tulsa, Gkla., was handling 7,373, Paris’ Le Bourget took care of 1.850 while Chicago’s airport was handling 3,136. These are figures supplied by the magazine, and there seems no reason to doubt them. The plain fact is that commercial aviation in this country is making a steady, healthy growth. The extravagant prophecies of a couple of years ago may not be fulfilled yet, but aviation is moving forward. People are losing their fear of getting off the ground. “Your Obedient Servant” It is interesting to read that the American state department has sacrificed a time-honored custom of diplomacy to modern efficiency. Up to this time, all official state department letters have ended with the flowery old phrase, “I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant." Now, however, by an official order, they are to end with the modern “Very truly yours.” All this is as it should be; but it makes one wonder what diplomacy is coming to. The very essence of it is high-flown phrases and flowery language. What will ever happen if it gets stripped down to its essentials? Can our diplomats stand the shock? Among the things that keep our mind busy this summer is the thoughtful speculation over what the late William Jennings Bryan would say if he could hear the current charfee that the Democratic party is influencing Wall Street to depress stock prices and so discredit the Republican administration. Dry agents raided an Ohio restaurant and seized 100 bottles of whisky hidden in boxes labeled “soup.” That, doubtless, explains the origin of the phrase, “From soup to nuts.” The expression, “She just sweeps men off their feet,” easily can be understood since advent of those trailing gowns. Prison inmates are reported to be attempting to organize a union. They want to go out on strike.

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THERE’S a lot of propaganda for end against Russia, but you get true slant on the Soviet establishment from the case of V. A. Hatchatouroff, sent here from Moscow to study oil refining, who committed suicide rather than return to Russia when ordered back. a a a Vesuvius has been in eruption again and the most reasonable explanation is that it caught it from Mussolini. ana Peggy Hopkins Joyce, who has been matrimonially dormant for some time, now threatens to marry an English title. “My word!” a a a The bureau of statistics announces that the people of our beloved land will consume three billion cucumber pickles this year. This promiser a lot of business for the secretary of the interior a a a THE Detroit Institute of Arts is exhibiting a number of Rembrandt paintings and if Rembrandt looks down upon it he probably thinks of the days of his adversity when he made chalk sketches on walls for enough to get a handout. a a a Dr. de Martel, famous Paris surgeon, thinks French statesmen live longer than American statesmen because they drink wine and to prove his case he cites the early deaths of Wilson, Harding, Bryan and Roosevelt. He overlooks the fact that Roosevelt and Harding were not total abstainers, while Wilson died from a mountain of worries and Bryan from overheat. a a a The truth is that age laughs at habits. Some topers wear out a hundred corkscrews, while some Puritans wear out a dozen pumps; some live to be a hundred and ascribe it to the fact that they kept moth out of their lives by smoking and others become centenarians and say it was because they never touched the weed. a a a GO to a dozen gentlemen, perched on the whatnot of antiquity, and ask them; “How come?” and you will get a bewildering array of answers. One will say it's because he bathed every day and another because his pores have been locked for sixty years; another will tell you it’s because he wore an electric belt around his equator and another because he carried a buckeye in his pocket and the next will aver it’s because he irrigated every spring with sassafras tea. a a a You just can’t figure it out. but if we were sponsoring an adventure in longevity we should say: Work at the thing you like, put a thermostat on your emotions, never argue about nothings, give Mr. Barleycorn the stony stare, keep off state roads on Sunday, eat half as much as you want, never run for office, and most important of all—read this column every day. * .

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

‘Mastering a Metropolis" Proves Gigantic Task for Best Minds of Gotham. BAGDAD on the Hudson was what O. Henry named New York. Today it is a more wonderful Badgad than ever before, as the tall pyramided skyscrapers rise majestically toward the clouds. The minsrets of an oriental Bagdad would _eem like doll houses beside them. It is a more wonderful Bagdad and a more fearful one—as anyone who has attempted to ride the subway in the rush hour will testify. Wonder and fear sometimes are related emotions. In the case of j New York, the causes of wonder and fear are related phenomena. For skyscrapers cause congestion which requires subways. And subways invite congestion which encourage the building of more skyscrapers. And the result is that the more majestic the rise of the modern pyramids, the more terrible and inconvenient the push and jostle of street and subway. Some ten years ago a group of public-spirited citizens observed this problem and a hundred other problems which beset the future of New York. The result was that a meeting held on May 10, 1922, the committee on regional plan of New York and its environs held its first public meeting. Elihu Root was the principal speaker at the meeting. a n Committee THE committee had come into existence in 1921 as the result of the activities of the late Charles Dyer Norton. Though we think of city planning as something new, it is, after a fashion quite old. New York got its first dose of it in 1811 when Gouverneur Morris, Simeon De Witt and John Rutherford formed a committee to draw up a plan for the city which then boasted 90,000 inhabitants. Their plan was not much more than an arrangement of streets. The first attempt to draw up a comprehensive plan for the city was not made until almost 100 years later, when Mayor George B. McClellan appointed what he called the New York City improvement commission. The committee made a report in 1907, but after the fashion which seems so prevalent in American civic life, nothing w'as done about the report. . . In 1913 a heights of buildings commission was appointed, with Edward M. Bassett as chairman. The work of this committee resulted in the zoning ordinance and the introduction of the set-back principle of skyscraper construction which has so radically altered, and immensely beautified, the skyline of New York. Nothing had come immediately of the 1907 report. But among those who had not forgotten the plan was Norton. Norton was a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation. tt Advice IN 1914, George McAneny, then president of New York’s board of aldermen, organized a committee on the city plan of which he was chairman and the presidents of the five boroughs were members. To aid the work of this committee, he appointed an advisory committee of architects and business men. Norton was the head of this advisory committee. Members included Irving T. Bush, Bassett and others. As Norton once said, “The committee met in a beautiful room in the city hall once or twice and wisely resolved to give advice only when it was asked for, which was never.” It became plain to Norton that though the execution of a city plan would be an official governmental action, the task of stirring up the necessary enthusiasm for it and the task of doing the preliminary work would have to be done by interested citizens. And so in 1921, with the financial support of the Russell Sage Foundation, he organized the committee on regional plan of New York and its environs. The original committee consisted of Norton as chairman, Robert W. De Forest, John M. Glenn, Dwight W. Morrow, and Frederic A. Delano. Since then, the committee has made a comprehensive survey and published it in ten volumes. Recently a popular summary of the ten volumes has been compiled by Robert L. Duffus, well-known journalist, and published by Harper & Bros., under the title of “Mastering a Metropolis.” Every one interested in the future of New York—and who isn’t interested in that subject?—will find “Mastering a Metropolis” a fascinating volume.

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ANNEXATION OF HAWAII July 7 ON July 7, 1898, the United States annexed the Hawaiian Islands in response to an appeal made by leading residents. First appeal for annexation was rejected by President Cleveland, but President McKinley approved the second. The move for annexation was launched by the progressive party, consisting of Americans and the better elements among the foreigners and natives who were displeased with the existing government. They objected chiefly to the reign of Queen Liliuokaiani, who sought to nullify the constitution and secure absolute power. The queen ultimately was deposed and a provisional government organized. After the United States sent commissioners to the island to investigate conditions it was decided at first not to interfere. This heartened the deposed queen to seek a restoration, but when she refused to grant a general amnesty, this country proceeded to carry out the annexation. In 1900 the islands formally were organized into the territory of Hawaii, and a territorial Governor was appointed by the president. To whom does Luxemburg belong? It is an independent grand duchy of Europe, rulec. by the grand duchess, H. R. H. Charlotte.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Exercises Beat ‘Reducing Machines'

BY DR. MORRIS FISHREIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvecia. the Health Masezine. ABOUT 1857 a Swedish physician named Dr. Gustav Zander began to use mechanical means for massage and exercise. These machines were the first ever used for the purpose. Since that time various devices have been developed, including the hobby horse, popularized by Mr. Coolidge, and all sorts of vibrators, shakers and springs, as well as machines for manipulating and vibrating the muscles of the human body. In a recent consideration of the use of these machines, the council on physical therapy of the American Medical. Association condemns them, although not unreservedly, for several reasons.

The Human Race Must Have Alcohol BY JAMES A. REED, EX-SENATOR FROM MISSOURI

ARTICLE THIRTEEN Do We Need Alcohol? INDUSTRIAL alcohol has figured large in the prohibition controversy. Great quantities have been diverted for making whisky and gin. How much has been the subject of bitter debate. Prohibition, properly speaking, has nothing to do with industrial alcohol. The eighteenth amendment forbids the use of alcohol for drinking. That, and nothing more. I doubt whether the public has the slightest conception of the manifold uses of industrial alcohol, or how impossible it would be to operate the industry of the country without it. It has more practical uses in industry than any other chemical. It exists in greater quantities than any other liquid except water. Indeed, its principle was referred to by an eminent scientist as “the soul of the vegetable world.” Yet in spite of the simplicity of alcohol production and the wealth of substances from which it can be extracted, there is not today a sufficient quantity of alcohol produced in the United States to meet our scientific and industrial needs. A research expert of the United States Industrial Alcohol Company has stated that one of the major engineering and chemical problems of this age is to find raw material, abundant and cheap enough, to produce the necessary supply. Industrial alcohol is used by thousands of industries. But to prevent its use as a beverage, the federal government treats all its users as potential criminals. It hedges them in with all sorts of restrictive regulations. Spies sometimes have been put in the plants of the industrial alcohol manufacturers, and in establishments of its users. Their books and records are examined regularly and carefully. They are subject to severe penalties if a single gill goes astray. TO prevent further the use of industrial alcohol as a beverage, the government puts deadly wood alcohol into millions of gallons. Wood alcohol is such a powerful poison that a small quantity of it causes immediate and permanent blindness, and a large quantity, death. Industry has been handicapped and harassed greatly by the restrictions on industrial alcohol thought necessary to prevent its diversion to beverage use. Alcohol is used in the home ever/ day, for it is a constituent of all metal, fum Sf ure and shoe polishes. No woman could keep her home clean enough to 1 : ■> in without it. There could be no electric light in the home without industrial alcohol. It is used in the manufacture of the filaments in the electric globes. It is also the principal constituent of canned heat. All paints, lacquers, shellacs, varnishes and enamels have alcohol as their base. Alcohol is also the principal constituent all paint and varnish removers. Among the pyroxylin and nitrocellulose products, in the manufacture of which fT '°at quantities of industrial alcohol are used, are brushes, buttons, mirrors, billiard balls, hat stiffeners, dress ornaments, shoe caps, salt cellars, napkin rings, pin trays, vanity boxes celluloid collars, and millions of other arrives of every-day household use. a a a FLAVORING extracts, such as vanilla, ginger and lemon, are made with the use of alcohol. It is a necessary ingredient in man-

In the first place, it is felt that the psychology that their use develops in the patient is wrong, since they convey the impression that the machine has curative qualities and that it is unnecessary for the patient to do anything, but that he can leave everything to the machine. It is argued that the machine will accomplish things that can not be accomplished by simple exercise, but in the instance of extra fat around the waist actually better results are accomplished by leg and abdominal exercises without apparatus, and better results for weight reduction can be accomplished by a walk or slow run in. the fresh air. The machines treat only one part of the body at a time and do not have the advantage of general ex-

ufacture of vinegar. Jellies are colored with dyes made from alcohol; stick candy is lacquered with a harmless resin dissolved in alcohol. Pectin, now almost universally used in making jellies in the home, is recovered from fruits by the use of alcohol. Druggists use alcohol more universally than any other chemical. All perfumes contain alcohol. It is used in every kind of lotion, cosmetic, liquid soap, shaving cream, tooth paste, mouth wash, hair tonic, germicide, insect killer, deodorant and collodion solutions. In medicine, it is essential. It is used in the manufacture of more than 4,000 medicinal preparations, including such indispensable drugs as antipyrin, salvarsan, and insulin. You remember in this connection how Louis Pasteur came to make his monumental scientific discovery concerning the bacterial origin of disease, a discovery that has saved more human lives and prevented more human suffering than all other agencies of healing and mercy since the dawn of the Christian era. He made those discoveries in a brewery in France, experimenting upon beer and wine, to determine the cause of secondary fermentations. He discovered the germ theory of disease in a glass of beer. From that discovery, to quote the language of Sir James Crichton Browne, an eminent member of the English College of Royal Surgeons: “Must be ascribed the abolition of that dread scourge puerperal fever (which was killing an enormous percentage of the mothers of the world) the detection of the germs of tubercle, cholera, lock jaw, Malta fever, the discovery of diphtheria, antitoxin and of the protective treatment against cholera, typhoid fever and the plague, the elucidation of the true nature and mosquito origin of yellow fever, and finally a production of a remedy for the hidden plague.” a a a CERTAINLY, the needs of ailing and suffering humanity are nothing to the Anti-Saloon League reformers. They have asserted that they and the federal government, and not the doctors, have the right to prescribe what a sick and dying man requires for his restoration to health. Did not the late Wayne B. Wheeled (doctor of divinity, not medicine), declare before the judicial committee of the house of representatives on May 20, 1921, this new principle of therapeutics? Hear him: “If it comes to the point where it must be a choice between medicaments for medical preparation and the enforcement of law, I think we must choose law enforcement.” Yet, you will read the eighteenth amendment in vain for any prohibition against the medical use of alcohol. There could have been no development of modem surgery without the anesthetic ethers and the antiseptic compounds used for "putting the patient c sleep” and the prevention of suppuration of wounds. The recent intrcduction of ethylene, anew antiseptic, with less after-effects than any other, has attracted, world-wide attention. Experiments have been made with this product to eliminate pain in childbirth. Chloral, chloroform, iodoform and ethyl chljride extensively used in hospitals are all made from alcohol. Chemists tell us that it is absolutely impossible for the human race to do without alcohol. We are washed with it at birth and embalmed with it after death.

ercise in developing other parts of the body. Indeed, the Council on Physical Therapy points out that vibratory massage of the abdomen with a strap attached to a motor for ten minutes can not give as much benefit as a ten-minute fast walk with conscious effort given to holding in the stomach and abdomen. The tendency is for people to become very tired promptly of the shaking devices and hence to discontinue all exercise. Moreover a few instances have been reported in which people with appendicitis, or rupture, or ulcers of the stomach have been injured seriously by using these machine without any adequate knowledge of their physical condition.

And yet a chemical so useful as to be absolutely indispensable to life itself is made the subject of all sorts of criminal laws and regulations, largely on account of an asinine prohibition law, designed to prevent its use as a beverage. The great industries of this country which are dependent upon industrial alcohol have been made the victims of scandals and outrageous treatment because the government, by enactment of the prohibition law. has put such a premium upon alcohol for beverage use that there is ah almost irresistible temptation to divert it to beverage use. fCoDvrißht. 1930. by James A. Reed: distributed by Current News Features, Inc.) Next: Former Senator Reed will discuss “Prohibition Profits.”

Questions and Answers

Was the allegation that the present king of Great Britain had at one time married the daughter of Rear Admiral Seymou- ever proved? The alleged marriage of the present king of Great Britain to the daughter of Rear Admiral Seymour was a subject of court proceeding for libel in England, an editor having made the statement in a magazine. The king took the extraordinary action of suing for libel. The editor was unable to prove the charge and the decision was against him. The king took this action to clear up once and for all the story that he had married the admiral’s daughter while serving on a naval vessel in Malta. Can bats see in the daylight? Yes. How long was the Appian way? Via Appia, the Roman road, extended 350 miles from Rome. Who was the Mad Queen? Joanna, Queen of Castile. How many members of the Russian imperial family of Romanoff are living, and who is the present head? There are twenty-nine living members of the Russian Romanoff family and the Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich is the head, and pretender to the throne. What is the Jewish population of Jerusalem? 33,971.

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JULY 7, 19*

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Publicity Is a Wonderful Instrument, If Used With a Proper Sense of Values. ALL of us hav* the desire to do something spectacular. Most of r.s have sufficient courage to take mois or less risk for a moment In the spotlight. Few of us have enough self-control to resist trying the stunt road to fame or fortune. George E. Stathakis goes to his death over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He was a chef, but wanted to be a philosopher. More particularly. he wanted to know how it felt to be bounced around for a minute or so with the spotlight or eternity just around the corner. Maybe he found out. but what is the good, since he can’t tell any one? 0 8 8 They’ll Cash In HAYING hung up anew endurance flight record, the Hunter brothers propose to “cash in." No one begrudges them the revenue they may collect from a gullible public, but there are too many poor actors on the stage already, and too many good ones out of work. The Hunter brothers have proved their ability as aviators. Why not stay with the job? That is what Lindbergh did, and he probably will make as much money out of it in the end as though he had accepted the vast amount of money he was offered to pose as a freak. 0 8 8 Fooled by Rainbow PUBLICITY is a wonderful instrument, provided it is used with a decent sense of value. But the press agent has led us into many strange paths and too many young people are being fooled by the rainbow dreams with which he regales them. To perform some stunt and then win a fortune by exhibiting oneself like the rubber-necked man or fat girl seems an easy way to solve the problem of existence, and it would be, were the public not constantly on the watch for anew sideshow. 8 0 0 'Has-Been’ Is Pathetic YOUNG people do wrong in imagining that a moment of superiority counts for much. To be the real thing it must last. The most pathetic role in life is that of a “has-been.” The happiest people are those who keep their place in the line, who plug along at the thing they can do best, and who continue to live in the present. There is nothing to this idea of leaping into fame overnight and then retiring. You don’t have to take my word or any one else’s for it. Just look around you at the people past 60Those who have kept at work are not only the most contented, but the most interesting. Those who dwell in the past, who spend their time recounting what they once were, are not only the most discontented, but the worst bores.

They Keep Busy EDISON could have retired as one of the world’s greatest inventors forty years ago, and Ford could have quit as one of the world’s richest men two years ago. Why do you suppose they did not? They had sense enough to realize that it would have been the end; that ease would have meant nothing but dry rot after the active lives they had led. and that the only way they could make the years pleasant and agreeable was to go on. Edison, though 84, still is studying and experimenting. Ford, though 67, is extending his vast industrial organization, building plants in England, Italy and Russia, planting rubber trees in Brazil and establishing a goldenrod plantation in Georgia. a a a War Gave Proof THIS age in which we live was not created by men and women who performed stunts when they were 25 or 30 and then spent the rest of their lives showing off or taking things easy. What is more, it can not be perpetuated by them. It takes longer now to master the rudiments of human knowledge than it ever did before and it takes longer to make practical use of them. The man who would beat records, improve devices or discover new principles must expect to stay a longer time with the job. In one sense of the word, this is youths age—an age of speed and power, requiring clear eyes, steady hands, and sound hearts. But in another sense of the word it is an old man’s age—an age that h*s gone deeply into the secrets of nature and that requires the wisdom of years for guidance. Nothing brought this out so clearly as the late war, in which most of the privates were under 30, while most of the generals were over 50. DAILY THOUGHT Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil. —Habakkuk 2:9. To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.—Henry Ward Beecher.