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Hoover Takes a Hand It is with surprise that we read that President Hoover, who kept aloof from legislative affairs to the extent of remaining silent while congress framed a tariff bill, contrary to his policies has taken a hand In a congressional primary. In the northeastern corner of Tennessee, a Republican stronghold. Representative B. Carroll Reece is fighting for his political life. His constituents do not like the part he took in keeping the Norris bill for government operation of Muscle Shoals and the building of Cove Creek dam, which already had passed the senate, from coming before the house. Just as Reece was about to go down for the third time under the wave of popular resentment, the President has thrown him a rope in the form of a letter of indorsement. Hoover's letter says he la assured the senate plan can not pass the house “nor would I approve the plan.” He expresses preference for the Reece plan to lease Muscle Shoals. The primary campaign in which the President has chosen to take sides is in the very district where Hoover as a candidate expressed his views on Muscle Shoals. In his Elizabethton speech Oct. 6, 1928, after stating that he did not favor any general extension of the federal government into the operation of business in competition with citizens, he added: “There are local instances where the government must enter the business field as the by-product to some great major purpose, such as improvement in navigation, flood control, irrigation, sciertiflc research or national defense.” Asked by the editor of the Knoxville NewsSentinel, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, concerning the meaning of this reference, Hoover said: “You may say that means Muscle Shoals.” In view of that campaign statement, the public will be surprised to learn that the President favors the Reece leasing plan, and that he is fighting for It to the extent of interfering in a Republican primary. Though the President now is opposing the senate plan for government operation, we believe that plan is the only one the people will approve. They want to see this magnificent property, paid for by their millions, kept as a test plant to show the actual cost of producing electricity, and by competition to curb the private pow’er interests, fast getting out of hand. Hoover’s support of Reece is ail the more surprising because of the unscrupulous tactics employed by Reece, who charges that the Norris bill passed by the senate is “a Bolshevik scheme framed in Moscow.” Sam W. Price, Republican lawyer, running against Hoover’s candidate, favors government operation. He eays he is fighting “the battle of human rights against predatory interests." The President's letter will, lend aid and comfort to those predatory interests. How effective that aid will be can not be known until the votes in the primary of Aug. 7 are counted. Open Covenants Openly Arrived At No doubt President Hoover stood on strong historical and constitutional precedents when he refused to turn over to the aenate the secret materials bearing on the London naval pact. From Washington’s day to our own. Presidents have refused to give out secret data. And / the senate scarcely can complain, since its members laid bulldog hold on another Washington precedent in opposing “entangling alliances.” Without questioning either Mr* Hoover’s wisdom or his rights, we may, however, inquire as to what has happened to the campaign that all civilized states are supposed now to be waging against secret diplomacy. What has become of the Wilsonian idea of ‘open covenants openly arrived at”? We were taught that the World war was caused by secret diplomacy. The people did not know the manner in which their diplomats had committed them. They became aware only in the last moments before the war broke out, when it was too late to do anything about it. We were assured by Mr. Wilson and the entente statesmen that the end of the World war would also bring the end of all secret diplomacy. Everything would be done in the open and the people would be informed fully. The facts about the outbreak of the World war prove clearly enough the dangers of secret diplomacy. England was not bound by treaty to aid France. There existed only secret verbal agreements and an exchange of letters between Sir Edward Grey and the French ambassador in-November, 1912. Yet in 1914 Grey admitted an obligation of honor and he tells us that he would have resigned if this had not been fulfilled, irrespective of the invasion of Belgium. Likewise, there was no treaty which linked up the straits and Alsace-Lorraine in Franco-Russian policy, but George Louis, the French ambassador in Si Petersburg. admitted in 1910 that their actual linkage was taken as axiomatic and was the corner stone of Franco-Russian relations. It may be that open diplomacy is a futile hope. It may be entirely impractical in the world f international realities. But if so, our statesmen should inform the people frankly to this effect It is not fair to let them remain in a fool's paradise, fondly trusting that the old diplomacy is ended forever. Safety at Bathing Beaches - The heat wave that has been sweeping the middle west lately has brought with it the usual toll of drownings. Hot weather drives people to the beaches to cool off, and makes them forget the elementary rules of safety that should be observed at such places. First and foremost, probably, comes the rule that It is not safe to go swimming, alone, in a pool or river where there are no qualified life guards. It is safer to stick to the public beaches. They may be crowded, but at least there are people there to give help if help is needed. On top of that is the necessity for remembering that it is always dangerous to go in the water too soon after a meal. The man who bolts a heavy lunch and then rushes to the bathing beach is running a big risk. The readiness with which people run that risk cm an unusually hot day probably goes far to explain the increased number of drownings during the last hot spell. Documentary Gold Bricks The secret Communist documents introduced to the public by Grover Whaler while police commissioner of New York City now take their place with the gold brick and other objects of dubious barter. Witnesses before the congressional commit.ee, at its New York hearing, seemed to prove to the satisfaction of virtually everyone that the Amtorg letters were bogus. The ietterheaas—in spite of their alleged Moscow origin—were printed, according to believable testimony, in New York City. It remains to remark upon the singular gullibility which led first a high police officer, and finally Hep- *

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resent*tive Fish and his fellow congressional committeemen, to swallow the take papers. Forging documents ha. ; become a widespread business. You can buy genealogies to order. In Berlin existed—doubtless plenty of the same sort exist in other world centers—an elaborate document factory which produced wealth for its proprietors until they were arrested following exposure of the Borah documents. These papers purported to show that Senators Borah rnd Norris had received bribes of SIOO,OOO each from the Soviet ambassador in Paris. Earlier fake documents purporting to show that Borah and Norris and their fellow senators, LaFollette and Heflin, were in the pav of the Mexican government, originated in some other document factory. Another document now generally believed to be false, the Zinoviev note, contributed largely to the fall of the first British labor government. The fraudulent Dreyfus documents which tore France asunder still are a bitter world memory. Since the Dreyfus case, however, the manufacture of fake documents and records has grown, along with other business, into far-flung and dangerous proportions. This makes it the more surprising that the highest officials of a great police force should fall for palpable forgeries, and a congressional committee dignify the hoa* by going into star chamber session to consider the papers, for fear that the undercover men who received the documents should be dynamited. Naive people there alwavi will be in this world, yet we are naive enough to hope that high police officials, at least, if not members of congress, hereafter will bounce documentary gold bricks a few times on their desk before handing the city hall or the capitol building over to tne sharpers.

Railroad Whistles Railroad men believe that they eventually will be able to devise a railroad whistle which will shoot its shaft of noise directly to the railroad crossing instead of scattering it all over the countryside; and while this would be highly efficient, and while any step to diminish the daily amount of noise in this noise-ridden civilization of ours ought to be welcomed, were not sure that we're entirely in favor of this plan. The railroad whistle is in a class by itself. It is one of the most romantic sounds one ever hears. To lie in bed, late at night, and hear some distant flyer whistling for a crossing, is to experience the feeling that one has heard the eerie horns of elfland blowing beyond the horizon. The note is haunting beyond words, with an insistent melancholy that defies description. We should be sorry to be deprived of It. Hard to Get Excited Somehow it is a bit hard to get excited about this 156-year-old Turk who is visiting this country. s In the first place, one may be pardoned for being a trifle skeptical aboijt those 156 years of his. A doctor recently pointed out that extreme old age records generally are claimed by illiterate peasants—by people, that is, who would not have any written records to substantiate their claims. In the second place, one is inclined to ask, “Well, what of it?” The gentleman may have lived every minute of his 156 years; but why get excited about it? It is safe to assume that in all his century and a half of life he has not done a tenth as much genuine living as an intense, active young American like—for example—Charles A. Lindbergh. A Chicago sword swallower nearly choked on a dime. And the dime is considered such a small tip, too. A house without doors has been erected in London. The builders are thought to be amateur bridge fans anxious to avoid further grand slams. A prize of $25,000 is being offered for the inventor of anew use for mercury. It must have lost a lot of prestige in the recent heat spell. A Rumanian girl, says a news item, is nearly seven feet tall and is still growing. If she is depressed now, she's in for a circus later on. A cabbage over four feet high and weighing thirtynine pounds has been grown in Ireland. There’s a swell head for you.

REASON

IT was a victory for decency when the supreme court of Nebraska decided that George W. Norris, the Broken Bow grocer, who was induced to run for the senatorial nomination against the senator of the same name, had filed his petition too late. a a a With its age long reputation for cussedness, this is the first time that a political machine ever tried to nail a victim to the cross by running against him a cooked-up candidacy, carrying his identical name, thus confusing the voters and making it impossible after the election to determine which was elected. a a a IT is not unlikely that political head hunters in other states will follow the Nebraska idea, so it might be well for legislatures to provide that where candidates for the same office have the same name, their identity shall be established by printing some sufficient description. a a a You may not agree with Norris and you may desire to see him beaten, but you must agree that it is a devilish proposition to proceed to destroy a man by deliberately confusing the voters. If there’s such a thing as treason in time of peace, this is it. a a a Unci* Sam should be able to slice off a lot of his indebtedness when the fellow who invented the miniature golf course pays his income tax. Just a few days ago the first one opened in our town and now we have five. No matter how hard up we may be, we always have money for joy. a a a MR. COOLIDGE'S newspaper article about judging ourselves by our aspirations and others by their conduct is identical with what Dwight Morrow said in his last motion picture interview. Is it possible these old friends have the same ghost writer and he got his merchandise mixed. a a a We’ve often wondered why Donald MacMillan spent, so much of his time in the Arctic, but as we read of his arrival in Iceh nd as the thermometer on the back porch hovers around 100 we realize that he is one of the most brilliant thinkers of modem times. a a a The king of Egypt is likely to lose his job. If things continue to run against the purpje, it will not be long until it •will be impossible to find a king, outside of a poker game. a a a Improved machinery has rescued the farmer from drudgery these hot days, but the poor golf player must continue to go forth to the baking links and do his work by hand. _

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SCIENCE I ' BY DAVID DIETZ Outer Region of Sun Divided Into Three Parts—Surface, Atmosphere and Corona. THE astronomer divides the outer region of the sun into a number of parts. The layman will find It easy to acquire an excellent knowledge of solar phenomena if he becomes acquainted with these divisions and their names. These divisions are three in number. First there is the sun's surface. Next there is the sun’s atmosphere. And finally, there is the corona, a sort of extremely tenuous gaseous envelope surrounding the atmosphere and trailing off Into space. The solar surface is known to astronomers as the photosphere. This word comes from the Greek. "Photos” means “light.” The name is appropriate, since the sun’s light arises in the photosphere. The photosphere is the luminous surface which is visible with an ordinary telescope. The sun spots and other visible markings are on the photosphere. It must be remembered, however, that the photosphere does not constitute a surface in the sense that the earth has a solid surface. The photosphere it itself gaseous. The solar atmosphere consists of luminous, but practically transparent gases. It can not be seen with a telescope. During an eclipse of the sun, when the disc of the moon blots out the sun, a little of the solar atmosphere can be seen protruding beyond the edge of the moon.

Regions THE sun’s atmosphere is divided by the astronomer into two regions, known as the reversing layer and the chromosphere. The reversing layer is the part of the atmpsohere which lies immediately above the sun’s surface. Its name, which seems an odd one, comes about as a result of the effect which this layer of gas has on the spectrum of the sun. It is called the reversing layer because It is responsible for the dark lines in the spectrum of the sun. Were it not for this layer, the lines would be bright. The reserving layer consists of most of the chemical elements known here on earth. There are familiar gases, such as oxygen and nitrogen and the vapors of many substances such as iron, copper, magnesium, calcium and so on. These substances exist as gages on the sun because of the tremendous temperature of the sun. The reversing layer extends upward for a few hundred miles and then merges into the second division of the solar atmosphere, which astronomers call the chromosphere. The chromosphere extends to a height of several thousand miles. “Chromos” is the Greek word for color. The reason for this name is that when the chromosphere becomes visible during a total eclipse of the sun, it is seen to be colored a blood-red. The chromosphere is composed chiefly of the lighter gases, hydrogen and helium. u n n Prominences GREAT streamers or tongues of gas arise from the chromosphere. These are known as the solar prominences. The prominences, which are of various kinds, sometimes rise to enormous heights in brief periods of time. Astronomers have photographed prominences that rose to heights of more than 100,000 miles in the period of a few hours. Finally, we come to the corona, which surrounds the entire sun, a sort of outer envelope composed of gaseous material of surprisingly low density. The corona becomes visible only during am eclipse of the sun. Astronomers have perfected devices by which the chromosphere can be studied at any time, despite the fact that it becomes visible to the eye only during an eclipse. But as yet they have not been able to do the same thing with the corona. This is one of the reasons why astronomers regard an eclipse of the sun as such an important event. It is the only time that photos of the corona can be obtained. These photos indicate that the corona changes in shape with great frequence. It has not appeared exactly alike at any two eclipses. In addition, there are changes of a systematic nature in its appearance that seem to be linked up with the sun-spot cycle. The exact connection has not yet beep worked out, though it is thought to be an electromagnetic one.

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THE WORLD WAR July 28

ON July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, five days later delivering an ultimatum containing demands with which the Serbian government would comply only partially. Austria-Hungary had accused Serbia of complicity in the assassination of the Austrian heir-apparent, Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, and alleged that the anti-Austrian machinations of Serbian patriots menaced the integrity of the Hapsburg empire. Serbia wished to avert the hostilities that threatened. Diplomats of other European powers sought to iron out the difficulty, but AustriaHungary refused to submit the matter to peaceful arbitration. The Russian government, sympathetic to Serbia, ordered mobilization of its army. This caused Germany to declare what it considered to be a defensve war against Russia. Two days later Germany declared war against Russia’s ally, France. ■When Germany violated Belgium's neutrality, England considered this sufficient cause to declare war against the invaders. The United States entered the conflict on April 6, 1917, by declaring war on Germany. What are the seven seas? The North and South Atlantic; North and South Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Psychology Needed to Cure Alcoholics

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hvrela, the Health Magazine. FOR some years it has been the impression among * physicians generally that a man becomes a chronic alcoholic not because of any special qualities In alcohol creating a certain disease, but because of some qualities in the man himself which make him want to drink because of the general medical effects of alcohol. Dr. Henry Hart has attempted to analyze the personality factors in alcoholism as they occurred in some thirty patients who were studied in an institution devoted to the treatment of chronic alcoholics. It has long been known that the alcoholic patient is unreliable and will try to deceive his relatives, his friends, and his doctor, when they try to ascertain just why he indulges in his tendency to alcoholic sprees or chronic tippling. Os the thirty patients, only nine gave a definite history of having a father who was also an alcoholic. In seven cases it was reported that the father of the patient had been strict, stern, or repressive, and in six cases that the father was unstable and had had a nervous breakdown. In seven of the cases the father could be considered

IT SEEMS TO ME

IN Chicago, I see by the headlines, two babies were mixed up in a hospital. Or maybe it was just that somebody was afraid they had been mixed up. Unfortunately I didn’t read the story very carefully. I don’t even know whether the children in question are boys or girls. They must both be of the same sex, I suppose, or there wouldn’t be any mixup. To many people private ownership of offspring is enormously important. But as a matter of fact there isn’t much choice among the little ones. They need more than necklaces with names on them to be persons. There really ought to be some system by which the very little ones could be kept in the shop for a considerable period, like puppies, and not turned over to the parents or guardians until in a condition more disciplined than usual. 0 * The First Year NONE of them amounts to much during the first year. I can’t see, for the life of me, why your own should be any more Interesting or precious to you during that time than the child of anybody else. After two, of course, they are persons, but a parent must have a very lively Imagination if he is able to see any child as a sort of small scale copy of himself. Oh yes, a nose, or the eyes, or the color of the hair, or something like that, but the world is full of snub noses and brown eyes. To me it seems more of a coincidence than anything else. And even though it is more, what of it? How can a man work up a terrific, sentimental gratification over the fact that after he’s gone his nose will persist in the world. The hope of personal immortality through offspring is of small solace. The joys of being an ancestor are exaggerated. Mind you, I don’t mean for a-mo-ment to cry down the undeniable pleasure which arises from the privilege of being associated with a pleasant and playful child more than 2 years of age. Or I might reduce that limit a little. Only last week-end I saw a most fascinating baby who had only turned eleven months. For a person in rugged health, who is not particularly dressed up and doesn’t want to write a letter or read a newspaper, I can imagine few diversions more enjoyable than to have a child turned loose on him. His own, if you wish, but “own” chiefly in the sense that It is the one to which he has become accustomed. 0 Adoption, Paternity PEOPLE who adopt children build up as close a relationship as exists in any other family. The sense of paternity is not necessary for the creation of a joyful companionship and a deep and abiding love. Only a person extraordinarily satisfied with himself will demand that

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healthy in every way, but physically and mentally. In four cases the mother had died before the child was old enough so that she could have affected his life in any way. In ten cases the child had had what the psychologists call fixation on its mother. In eleven cases there was a definite history of marital discord between the parents, and in one case a feeling of intense hatred toward the mother because the child had learned that she had attempted to get rid of him before he Was bom. In two cases in women the mother was definitely an alcoholic. Among these patients there were numerous instances of abnormality of personal adjustment to life and of personality. The forms of mental abnormality varied from shiftlessness and irresponsibility to feelings of inferiority, religious fanaticism and sexual disturbances. The most significant factor found apparently was the fact that most of the patients showed a complete lack of any downright concern over their weakness. There was indeed lack of desire on the part of the alcoholic patient to get well so that the painfulness of his affliction is outbalanced In his own mind by his sense of comfort and well being when he takes too much alcohol.

the child in his house be Important only in the precise ratio in which he reflects back the parent. I should think that a father would like to find in his son not just the same old Brown, or Smith, or Broun, but something different and considerably better. lam the father of a courageous child. That he never got from me. It makes him alien, but nevertheless attractive. Much sharper than a serpent’s tooth is the pleasure of an abject parent who finds himself blessed with a stubborn and determined child. If the people from the hospital should call up tomorrow and say: “We find we’ve made a mistake. We sent you the wrong child 12 years ago, but now we can exchange him and rectify everything.” I believe I’d say: “Oh, don't do that.”

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—Giant mergers eljfnftiate competition. Thus we pay the same price for bread made out of 60-cent wheat as we did when wheat was worth $1.60 a bushel. The Republican party has violated the Sherman anti-trust law in allowing these mergers to exist, letting a few men set the price of production and price of the finished product. The rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. The world owes every person a living, and If any one who is not getting it, somebody else is. We are the richest and most prosperous nation on earth, yet we have starvation and suicides on acount of unemployment. The party now in power in Washington not only has violated the laws, but most of them bought their power with money from the giant mergers, so it is time to change and give the Democratic party a chance to try and save the situation, which is bordering on anarchy. We are getting a taste here at home in the statehous? now. Those birds are feathering their nests with the taxpayers’ m< ey, spending money like drunken sailors, but we will have a chance this fall to give them the same dose of medicine we gave them last fall. One of our papers is bolstering up the administration by thinking things over with Cal, but you can riot eat, live,

Questions and Answers

Which three universities in the United States lead in the amount of endowment? Harvard, with an endowment of $86,702,843; Columbia, with $63,597,416, and Yale, with $58,024,459. Did Kansas or West Virginia enter the Unionist? Kansas entered the Union Jan. 29, 1861, the thirty-fourth state, and West Virginia was th§ thirty-fifth state, entering June Is, 1863.

Thus it is difficult to affect any permanent cure in an alcoholic patient without substituting something, such as religion, art or love, for the alcohol, and which will take the place in the patient’s ego of the effect that he gets from alcohol. This explains why the chronic drunkard does not want to get well, no matter how much he may protest that he does. Dr. Hart found among alcoholics an overwhelming number of instances of marital maladjustments, so that It seemed quite likely that the resort to alcohol was an attempt to get rid of the difficulties associated with married life. Apparently the person who is a chronic alcoholic is one who has a constitutional instability, who finds discord in the family in which he is raised. He Is all adjusted to life, has no sense of responsibility and when he grows up he finds married life full of problems which are beyond his solution. Alcohol apparently brings him forgetfulness, stimulation, and mental relief that he does not get in other ways. Obviously, the control of such a condition must be basically psychological control and not merely an attempt to handle the condition from the physical side.

HEYWOOD By BROUN

And I think I’d add: “This one's been around quite awhile now and given approximate satisfaction and if you don’t mind just let things go on as they are. You can keep the real one.” After all, a son is distinctly an acquired taste. It’s the practice of parenthood that makes you feel that there may be something in it. And anybody’s child will do for practice. I wish the distracted parents in Chicago would look at it in that light. Let them stop worrying. If each household gets a promising baby, that child will come to be their very own as he grows up. In twenty years, in ten, in five months, in fact, it will matter very little Just who It was who bore him. (Coovrieht. 1930. by The Times)

pay rent and taxes by thinking with Cal. It’s time for the farmers and laboring men to wake up and th'nk, and an empty stomach surely will make you think. Don’t fall for their candidates and campaign promises, for they are like the old Turk and his wives: “Get them young, treat them rough and give them nothing.” SILAS BAINBfHDGE. 243 Kansas street.

Ideals and opinion* exorcised In this column are those el one of America’s most Interesting writer* and are presented without rerard to thrlr agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this nauer.—The Editor.

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.JULY 28, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS: The Democrats Appear to Have a Chance in 1932, hut They'll Have to Display More Horse Sense Than They Have in Recent Years to Win. SELECTION of Senator Fess as chairman of the Republican national committee will be taken generally to mean that the Hoover administration has decided to throw in its lot with the old guard. In this respect, Fess’ appointment is in line with many preceding events. However kindly President Hoover may have felt toward the liberal elements within his party, and however earnestly he may have t™ o *° bring about an understanding between them and the conservative.., the last two years have resulted in nothing so distinctly as a widening of the rift. Nor is the blame wholly on one side. More than once, liberals have gone out of their way to oppose the Hoover administration and whether they intended tc make a compromise impossible, they have just about succeeded. # s n AS Chaiman Fess says, President Hoover probably will be renominated in 1932. But the stage 6eems set for another belt, and, of course, another chance for the Democrats. But the Democrats will have to display nore sense than they have in recent years to make anything of it. At present, they are about as badly split as the Republicans—half wet, half dry, half liberal and half conservative. Worse than that, they have no impressive leader like Wilson to trot forward, as they did in 1912. # 0 0 ‘Ma’ Is Back Again MA FERGUSON, former Governor of Texas, and wife of an impeached governor, running because her husband can’t, is out in front once more, just to show how confused the situation really is. Her opponent will bfe R. S. Sterling, byproduct of the great prosperity that has come to the Lone Star state through oil. Just another incident in the rapidly forming conflict between old-fashioned politics and new-fashioned business. m m DETROIT police have many theories as to why Jerry Buckley was killed, but fione as to who killed hhn. The same thing is true of Chicago police with regard to the Lingle case. Our law enforcement machinery seems to be running to seed over the whys of crime. One wonders if we are not getting altogether too speculative, and if It would not be just as well to fall back on the idea of merely trying to stop the thing. The New Witchcraft THE red hunt moves merrily on, with 641 watches discovered as having been smuggled in by an alleged Communist, with the state department threatening to exclude Russian manganese, coal and timber, and with Moscow claiming to have been insulted and hinting at measures of retaliation. What a good time we are having with this new brand of witchcraft, and what a stew we are concerting for the future. Does the United States intend to lead a boycott on Soviet Russia,, and would other nations fall in line? Or would they take advantage of the manifest opportunity of admitting that Communist propaganda costs us something, and that it may cost us more? Would its complete suppression, if that were possible, be worth the loss of Russia’s trade? Call such an idea sordid and commercial, if you like, but please remember that we are in the midst of a depression, and that unemployment is generally considered an important issue. Further than that, consider the principle involved, the tradition of freedom for all other peoples which we always haie claimed to support, the characters of governments we have recognized in the past, and the disturbances we have tolerated at home in the name of liberty. Have those politicians who are inflaming the red bogey thought this thing through? Do they know where they are going, or what the ultimate end is likely to be?

Daily Thought

Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation—Matthew 26:41. Every Christian is endued with a power whereby he is enabled to resist temptations.—Tillotson. What kind of ink Is used by the government inspectors to stamp meat? A harmless ink made from vegetable coloring.