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One Step Ahead Most significant, at a time when state officials are attempting to get the farmers of the drought area of the state away from what in cities would be called the bread line of charity by giving them jobs building roads, is the movement at Connersville to teach the farmer how to co-operate in his buying. That word “co-operate” is likely to be heard more often in the future and many of us may come to realize the dynamic possibilities of its meaning. The farmer will go to school to discovei what he can do by combining his local selling power. It is an easy step to combined buying power. It is a movement worth watching for. Carried to large scale, it could easily change many of our industrial and commercial practices. Os course, if the farmer is driven to cooperation to exist, it may occur to workers to follow that example, if the farmer is successful. The nation is watching cooperation in ownership. It is complacently accepting investment trusts instead of individual stock ownership, just as industry went from individual ownership through the partnership to corporation control and finally to the mcrgci era. We are obtaining cooperative ownership of industries on a large scale. The same theory may work in production and distribution. While the farmers are learning the new theory of economics they may also obtain a larger sympathy with the industrial worker who is now the victim of unemployment. They may even come to an understanding of the tragedy which hits the workless man when he is exploited on public highway work. The time may come when it will be no longer necessary for lhe limes, 01 an\ other newspaper, to point out to public officials the immorality of peonage on public projects. Propaganda and Propaganda When the G. O. P. finally got rid of the clinging Claudius Huston. Simeon Fess was made Republican national chairman. Fess may be a well-known reactionary, but he has earned the reputation of being the most inept man in the senate. Therefore the work was divided so that the high-powered plans and action could be left to some go-getter rather than to Simeon. This idea was borrowed from the Democratic G. H. 1., where a propaganda genius named Jouett Shouse had been brought in to supply the strategy for the amateur chairman, Raskob. For months Shouses propaganda gunners and snipers have been peppering the G. O. P. till it is sore and jumpy all over. And all the while the Democrats have been getting cockier. Not so good for the administration on the eve of the congressional campaign. So the President and his party wisemcn decided to show the foe. To that end they created the new job of executive director of their party, and filled it with Robert H. Lucas, the commissioner of internal revenue. For a fortnight Washington waited for the great Republican broadside with which Lucas was going to blow the Democratic propaganda crew right out of the water. Now the blast has been touched off. The noise was terrible. But as the smoke cleared away there stood Shouse and his merry cut-throats, untouched—and giving the enemy the razz. Considering the ammunition he used, it is a wonder Lucas even raised a laugh. Here was his hot shot: “Elect a Democratic congress in 1930 and this country will not see normal business again for some years to come. ... When a man gets a serious illness, he doesn't call in a quack. That s just the time he puts his faith and hope in the old family physician.” He went on to blame Democrats for demoralizing business and increasing unemployment. After the Republicans’ unfortunate 1928 boomerang by which the imaginary A1 Smith panic turned out to be a real Hoover depression, one can imagine the Republicans looking at the Lucas statement and saying, ’ why bring that up?” Surely Lucas can not possibly be so hard up for campaign arguments that he must resort to this sort of thing. Jouett Shouse could tell him that there is propaganda and propaganda. One is effective and the other is not. One kind can defeat its purpose by its own obvious absurdity. The other kind is effective because it is partly true—that is. it is the truth, but not the whole truth. Perhaps Lucas will learn. We hope so. For the Republican-Democratic propaganda battle has become so one-sided that tt is not even interesting. Conservatives Defeating Conservatism The recent history of sex questionnaires in colleges furnishes an illuminating and amusing illustration of how conservatives often get in their own way by getting excited prematurely and going off halfcocked. A great howl has gone up from reactionary quarters over the questionnaires, but the intent and results of these efforts were in each case highly conservative and reassuring. Unless we know the facts, we ran not act intelligently. Until we know the de'/ee of sex rebellion among modern youth, both as io attitudes and acts, we can do nothing effective to correct the actual evils. Even the most conservative Wall Street iwnker would not invest without Investigating the relevant facts in the propositign offered. There is a vast amount of loose talk about the sex anarchy of the younger generation. One of the few reliable ways of getting at the facts is to submit questionnaires to these very youths. There is no danger of inciting anybody to "sin” through asking any relevant questions. A generation which is exposed t* the movies, -benders,” night clubs and college smut sessions is acquainted with the facts of life in word if not in deed. . Sueh a questionnaire was given to a group o$ •elected Smith seniors b; Professor Frank H. Hankins.

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Nobody in the class was excited and the results were most reassuring. If the students told the truth, then the most anxious and conventional father might have felt that his daughter was surprisingly immune to the ways of wickedness when at Smith college. But a great hue and cry went up all over the land from parents who were alaimed, but not informed. Professor Hankins’ scalp was saved only by the courage and adroitness of President Neilson. Then came the effort a year ago to give the sex questionnaire at the University of Missouri. The storm which followed has raged for more than a year. In the process two teachers were dismissed, one suspended and two reprimanded. Several others have resigned. The president has been dismissed. The questionnaire was proclaimed innocent and harmless by the investigating committee of the Association of American University Professors. But the episode was a greater comedy of errors than had appeared thus far. It seems that Professor Meyer and his associates at Missouri were net actually attacked for giving the questionnaire. This was but the smoke screen for the public. He was attacked for giving a sex lecture to a few highly selected advanced students who presumably were going into social work. The lecture was designed to enable social workers to inform working girls as to how they might resist seduction and predatory males. What could be more conservative or more gratifying to conventional parents than this? Yet a great university was kept in turmoil for more than twelve months because a professor tried to make promiscuous seduction of helpless girls less easy and frequent. The curators of the University of Missouri certainly could not have wanted to make seduction any more simple and common. The Bankruptcy Business Need for revision of the federal 1 bankruptcy laws is emphasized in the report by the department of justice revealing the magnitude of losses suffered by creditors through the operation of an obsolete system. The report was in response to a recent request from President Hoover to the departments of justice and commerce for an exhaustive study of the problem. The President called attention to the abuse of bankruptcy laws by unscrupulous persons, and said proposals for amending the laws would be made following the inquiry. Nearly a billion dollars in assets was involved in 62,845 cases filed during the last fiscal year, said the report. The amount realized on the assets of bankrupt firms and individuals was only about 18 cents on the dollar. And out of that came expenses and fees, which reduced further the amounts creditors finally recovered to about 8 cents on the dollar. Perhaps the most exhaustive report thus far on the subject was that under the direction of William J. Donovan, former United States assistant attor-ney-general, published last spring. Donovan acted as counsel for three bar associations of New York,! which became active after a series of scandals there which brought the intervention of Federal Judge Thatcher and United States District Attorney Tuttle. Donovan urged speeding up procedure, putting the administration of bankrupt estates on a business basis, relieving the courts of administrative duties, more efficient enforcement of criminal provisions of the present act, and other reforms. Judge Thatcher, who since has become United States solicitor-general, in a memorandum pointed out the superiority of the British system, which he had studied, and said it was successful in protecting creditors. He stressed the desirability of separating executive and judicial functions in bankruptcy administration. As the law now operates, the "bankruptcy business” Is carried on through 530 federal referees acting under order of the district judges and the army of trustees, receivers, lawyers and others named to look after the businesses of petitioners. The system is uneconomical and cumbersome, and open to manifold abuses. Judges lack time and training to participate intelligently. Receivers and ; trustees often are inexperienced and must rely on ! lawyers and others to do the real work. Shyster lawyers working for dishonest clients can use the law to mulct creditors. The presidential study, which no doubt will be completed by the time congress reassembles in December, should provide the necessary guidance for the needed early legislative revision and reform.

REASON

INDIANAPOLIS comes to bat with the latest case in which a beast shot a young man and outraged a girl, the beast in this instance being white. In all such cases we should put our criminal lawyers in moth balls, cut out our courthouse monkey business and ask our judges to step on the gas. v m n When there’s no doubt of guilt, there should be a fifteen-minute trial, immediately followed by a twenty-minute necktie party, all in harmony with the statutes, of course. And it makes no difference whether the guilty be white or black. If anything, hand the necktie to the white man more quickly than the black man, for more is expected of him. B B B THIS reminds us that along with the other darlings our pardon board and Governor are letting out of the penitentiary every little while, there usually age several who were sent up for rape. Our authorities should be informed that for the time being we have enough such undesirables at large without any additions from those now behind the bars v BBS Those fanner vigilantes down at Brazil, Ind., did a fine day’s work when they shot that quartet of bandits full of holes, and we'll not get anywhere until each community has its vigilantes. Experience has shown that a dead bandit rarely gives the community any more trouble. Several other things have contributed to the high tide of crime wnich washes the shore of the present, but unemployment has recruited many of the bad men. Idleness is the main entrance to hell. B B B IT makes you wonder what conditions will be when our industrial schedule shall be rearranged to proride a five-day week and a six-hour day, further reductions to follow in due time. Unless we can make tree-sitters out of millions, there will be a large cargo of devilment. BBS Instead of being a penalty visited upon the human race for the indiscretions of Mr. and Mrs. Adam, work is the greatest blessing ever invented, not only because it keeps you out of trouble, but because it affords the only abiding satisfaction on earth. B B _ 3 And of all jobs, the farmer would have the best if conditions could be arranged to give him prosperity. Out in the fields you are free; you don't have to flatter anybody or plot against anybody; you are free from all the littlenesses of men: you are in partnership with nature and if she'll only keep her shirt on, you are better off than anybody else.

pv FREDERICK LANDIS

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! SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ Intense Heat Drives the Tail Out of a Comet, Investigation by Astronomers Discloses. PLUTO, the newly found planetlike object discovered in the solar system, maintains its planetlike appearance only because it is so far from the sun. That is the opinion of Professor William D. Macmillan, professor of mathematical astronomy at the University of Chicago. Professor Macmillan, one of the world’s best-known astronomers, believes that Pluto is not a planet at all, but a comet. It is-a well-known fact that when a comet is first sighted in the heavens at immense distances from the sun, it does not have a tail. The tail develops as the comet approaches the sun, and grows larger as the comet gets closer to the sun. As the comet recedes from the sun, the tail disappears. Another factor which points to a definite connection between the sun and the comet’s tail is that the tail always is directed away from the sun, irrespective of the comet’s motion. At times the tail is moving through space ahead of the comet, like a freight train backing up the track. Pluto was closest to the earth in 1900, according to Dr. MacMillan’s calculations. But it then was still more than a billion miles away. Had it passed closer to the sun. Dr. Macmillan believes that it would have developed a magnificent tail which would have rivaled Halley’s edmet or any of the famous historic comets. a b b Heat INTENSE heat drives the tail out of a comet, according to Dr. Macmillan. The comet has to approach close enough to the sun to be heated up before the tail develops. ‘‘The striking characteristic of Planet X is that it remains far enough from the sun to keep cool.” Dr. Macmillan says. He continues: “If you were to freeze a bottle of pop, for instance, take it out to the neighborhood of Uranus, knock off the glass and throw the ice toward the sun with a side motion, the ice would revolve in an elliptical orbit around the sun. “As it approached the sun, heat would expand and release the gas, while light-pressure would drive it off as a tail. That is what probably happens to comets. “Quite likely the solar system has parasites crawling all over it. If you go hunting for them, you probably could find hundreds. “It is conceivable that Planet X is one of a cometary family, having many members, which move in the outer ranges of the solar system, approaching the sun at intervals of -thousands of years.” a a a Accuracy DR. MACMILLAN feels that more data must be gathered about Pluto before a complete opinion of it can be given. He says: “Several more months of observations must be had before any accurate graph of the orbit of Planet X can be drawn. On an ordinary size drawing, the three positions supplied by the Flagstaff' astronomers so far would be inside a small dot. “Tentative calculations indicate that the orbit has an eccentricity of nine-tenths. If further observations show that the eccentricity is over ‘one,’ then the orbit will be hyperbolic, which means that Planet X never will return and that it is the first such comet ever seen. “Astronomers in general have had the feeling that Planet X, though highly interesting, is not a planet and has no connection with Lowell’s prediction. Its orbit would seem to justify that feeling. . “Estimates of its size have been on the assumption that “X” is solid, and would ha re such reflecting power as solid bodies have. But actually there is no way of measuring its density. If it is a comet, as it seems to be. then it may- be a swarm of fragments and its volume is much larger than that of the earth.”

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—Your articles concerning the labor situation are commendable and I am sure that this is the unanimous opinion of the membership of the various workmen’s organizations of this city. Your efforts are appreciated highly by the painters of local union, No. 47, of which organization I am proud to be a member. RALPH COX. 217 North Noble street.

Questions and Answers

What are Basques and where do they live? They are a peculiar race dwelling on the slopes of the Pyrenees. They occupy the pruv nces of Biscay, Alva, Guipuzcoa and Navarre in Spain and two T rench departments, Bayonne and Ma ..leon. What is the meaning of the name Edwilda? It is Teutonic and means “rich power.” What is the corpuscular theory of Ught? That theory, according to which luminous bodies emit minute particles capable of passing through transparent substances, and producing the sensation of light. It is also known as the emission theory. What is the value of a Confederate 520-bill, issue of 1864, portraying Nashville capital? It is not worth 1 cent. When do the spring and autumnal equinoxes occur? The spring equinox occurs March 21 and the autumnal equinox Sept. 23. When did Admiral Robert E. Peary die? In 1920. In what poem does the following line ossur: “Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you?” “Life’s Mirror,” by Mary A. DeVere who wrote under the pen name of Adelaide Bridges.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

Following is the explanation of Rilpley’s “Believe It or Not,” winch appeared in Saturday’s Times: Rotten Row Is One of the Most Desirable Places in London—“ Rotten Row” is an English corruption of the French “Route du roi” (the

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Blood Pressure Has Mental Angle

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. SINCE the factors that control blood pressures are numerous and include not only purely physical factors, but also mental aspects, such as the relationship of excitement or emotional states, such as anger, sorrow, and irritation; since the part played by heredity is not quite certainly known; since the influence of proper elimination from the kidneys, the amount of fluid and of salt taken into the body, and of alcohol and tobacco is not certainly established, there is a wide field of research on this frontier of medicine still available to the explorer. It is believed that alcohol in moderation does not influence the

IT SEEMS TO ME

Heywood Broun, who, conducts this column, is on his vacation. During his absence Joe Williams, sports editor of the New York Telegram, will oinch-hit for Broun.—The Editor. BY JOE WILLIAMS THE boys aren't blowing the whistle in the big town any more. Possibly you've heard about it. It seems that Police Commissioner Mulrooney sent out an order the other day to the effect that the boys should leave their Tom Thumb trumpets at home. Ostensibly this was an order designed to expedite traffic in some way or other. Preferably forward. It also was suggested that the muting of the brasses would lend still further impetus to the noise abatement movement. Some people complain there are too many noises in the metropolis. This in spite of the fact that La Guardia no longer is campaigning. Tish and double tosh. The order probably has a far deeper significance- In the picturesque argqt of Tammany Hall, to blow the whistle means to squeal, yell Copper and tell all. Even a cat-hoppifig slant at the newspaper headlines of the day will disclose that there has been much furious tooting of the whistle in political arenas. Vaudevillians are reviving the long-bearded ones. Are you in politics or don’t you believe in graft? How that used to panic ’em in Peoria, eh, Willard? Grand jury rooms arc boiling over with probes, quizzes and non-parti-san peep-holers. The snriil blast of the vidicative whistle has uncorked a pandora flask of pre-war astonishers right off the good scow E. A horse doctor with democratic fetlocks was paid more than $40,000 for one day s practice. If a man is that expert why should he have to practice? This proves opportunities were greater and gaudier before the machine age came. An auto doctor today is lucky to grab off. a full day’s pay between Edison questionnaires. a b a Poor Politician ANOTHER gentleman distinguished for party fealty and unceasing devotion to the public weal wanted to build a summer home at Blue Point where the wild oysters gambol au naturel on the moonbathed sands. But he didn’t have enough money. Avery kind lady heard his story and her heart was touched. * What a cruel inconsiderate world. They have milk funds for babies, Christmas charities for the poor, relief for the farmers and food for the Belgians. But nobody ever seems to want tc. do things for an all right politician who is sobbing in his clam chowder because he hasn't got a nice big house out in Blue Point with cane chairs on the front porch, a

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blood pressure. In some people, the wihdrawal of excessive amounts of alcohol will lower the blood pressure, but in others it will not apparently have this effect. Because of the food qualities of alcohol it tends to favor putting on weight, and it has been established by the insurance companies that excess weight after middle life is likely to be associated with higher blood pressure. It has been established that a nervous state tends to raise the blood pressure, and it is known that excessive amounts of tea and coffee may make the individual more nervous than he would otherwise be. These practical aspects of the subject are such that every man may make to some extent his own research.

radio in the living room and a bed of red geraniums on the lawn. B B B Fine Music ASIDE from the suggestion that there may be a political significance in the Mulrooney order which has taken the nickel-plated canaries away from the coppers in the metropolitan streets, the question remains whether or not it is for the best. This all depends. Personally, whistle music never appealed to me very much. It always seemed to lack something vital. And after you've heard one whistle, you’ve heard them all. A traffic cop's whistle in Yazoo City, Miss., sounds just about as offensive as another traffic cop’s at Fifth avenue and Forty-second street. It may be that I’m prejudiced in the matter of music. I go into transports of ecstasy. I mean to say, I go quite nuts, when an animal trainer brings a trained sea lion out on the stage, squats him down in front of a row of 1914 auto horns, and by the exercise of sheer Wagnerian magic, persuades him to sneeze into the funnel ends, causing to arise therefrom a miscellany of snorts, grunts and wails which when freely translated, amounts to the “good old summer time,” with the usual Macy discount for cash. All’sWell BUT this is wasted thought. Sounds are silent. From now on in our town traffic ebbs and flows to the accompaniment of white-gloved gestures. There is still need for a rhythmic persuasive school. A loose, disorganized system of hand wagging and thumb jerking is unthinkable. Nobody

Picnic Lunches Tired of planning summer meals? The bulletin which our Washington bureau has prepared on picnic lunches and porch suppers is just what you are looking for. A whole list of suggestions • for appetizing menus, and corresponding recipes for making them up—all practically dishless—is contained in this bulletin. You'll find it full of timely hot weather suggestions for the auto trip, the week-end guest, the maid’s day off or any hot day in midsummer. Fill out the coupon below and send for it—then clip it in your cookbook for future reference. CLIP COUPON HERE Picnic Lunch Editor, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C-: I want a copy of the bulletin, Picnic Lunches and Porch Suppers,' and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or United States stamps to cover return postage and handling costs. Name •. St. and No City State I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

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Ark., grow green cotton. A small portion of it was submitted to me by them, with verification that it was colored green in its natural state. Tuesday The Four - Year - Old Bride.

From time to time it has been recognized that various drugs will lower the blood pressure. This effect is brought about by action on some of the factors concerned in maintaining the blood pressure. Sometimes the lowering is brief and therefore of but little use in the control of a long-continued chronic condition. Other drugs have been used in which the lowering of pressure took place over longer periods of time. Then the question arises as to whether or not the increased blood pressure may not be a mechanism for maintaining the health rather than a serious factor of disease. Upon such problems as these research workers continue to spend their efforts in many hospitals.

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

DV HEY WOOD BROUN

'minds a great deal being told to stop or go to the swing of poetry or the harmony of physical motion. Now, where is there more recourceful pplice staff? One week his men interpret in colorful detail the arts of May West and the next with Hampdenseque skill sublimity of thought of the pious Earl Carroll cult. Even when they wave at you now, with wistles gone, you wonder if you shouldn’t sort of humor them and wave back with a handsome silk monogrammed handkerchief and shriek “Peeps, old fruit.” (Copyright, 1930, by The Times)

Daily Thought

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.—Emerson. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose 'his own soul?—Matthew 16:26. ! Was Colonel Charles Lindbergh : voted the greatest living flyer by I the International Aeronautic Asso- | ciation? No, but an honorary membership in the association was bestowed upon him, which is the highest honor received by an aviator. What is the name of the leading woman who appeared with Jack j Hoxie in the motion picture serial, ! “Lightning Bryce,” produced years ago? Ann Little. How may a man obtain dances at a dance hall? Ask the floor manager to introduce you.

'AUG. IS, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS: The Gambling Instinct Is in All of Us; Every Normal Human Being Likes to Bet Now and Then. JIM DANDY, rated as hopeless and carrying odds of 100 to 1, wins the Travers midsummer derby at Saratoga. Experts are trying to figure out how it happened, and those who bet on what they supposed a sure tiling are disappointed, while the few who took the long end—most of them just for fun—not only acquire easy money, but prestige. The idea that they were lucky soon will give place to the idea that they were wise, that they knew something other folks did not, that they are possessed of an intuitive ability to judge horses, and that it will pay to watch them. Some folks regard this as tine most pernicious aspect of gambling, as it probably is, but it plays no bigger part at the race track, roulette wheel, or ticker, and is no more pernicious in its effect than in every phase of life. Whether in gambling, politics, business or society the crowd worships those who succeed, even though their success represented nothing more than falling in a mud puddle and finding a diamond ring. B B B Bad Example Moralists will find a lot to woriv about, not only In the young men who laid $5 on Jim Dandy and won SSOO, but In the vastly greater number who may be encouraged to bet on horses by their good fortune. The same moralists, however, will continue to read stock quotations without reference to dividends and buy low-priced shares because somebody connected with the outfit made a killing. As between the two. gambling on horses is much less injurious than gambling in stocks, because it haa no effect on essential business. BUB Natural to Bet THE gambling instinct is in all of us. There isn’t a normal human being but who likes to lay a bet now and then. Efforts to repress this instinct have led to the usual result. Denied the privilege of expressing itself in comparatively harmless forms, it has broken out all over the map'. We have prohibited lotteries, smashed slot machines and barred stud poker, only to become the greatest gamblers on earth. Like bootleg hootch, our gambling devices have become rank poison. Instead of satisfying a peculiar appetite, they go to the vitals of our economic structure. tt tt a More Reform '"I''HE deprfssoin we are in can be X traced to nothing so definitely as a craze for gambling which should have been allowed to express itself in games or activities designed for that purpose and which would have been satisfied to do so. But bent on reforming the world, on making human beings over, on purifying individuals through mass regulation, we have piled inhibition on inhibition until the age-old hunger for games of chance and hazard has seized on our commercial set-up and virtually run away with it. Boys, brought up to regard threecard monte with horror, look upon it as quite legitimate to take the savings of widows and orphans in a stock deal. Worse than that, some of our brainest financiers says it is necessary, say you couldn't get the needed capital without the useless buying and selling by suckers and speculators, who have no interest in what they buy or sell, except as a change in the quotation makes them some easy money. Worse still, many executives of our big and important industries spend far more time telephoning to their brokers than doing the work fpr which they are hired and on the efficient performance on which thousands of people depend. B tt B In a Moss Horbe racing, cnuc-a-iuc, craps, spitting at a crack—what do such tilings amount to, compared to the way in which the capital Investments of this country were watered for five years, only to have the bubble burst last fall? Whether we have accomplished anything in discouraging the gambling instinct, which is doubtful, we have turned it into channels where it not only can wreck banks and close factories but actually take bread and butter from millions. Better a race track with wide open betting at every cross road and a poker game at the back of every corner grocery than such a mess as we are in.

— *rdoAVriß'THie”

VIRGINIA DARE’S BIRTH August 18.

ON Aug. 18. 1587, Virginia Dare, ■ the first child born in America of English parents, was born on Roanoke Island, Va., now a part of North Carolina. Sir Walter Raleigh was trying to found a colony in this region j which he called Virginia in honor lof Queen Elizabeth, the virgin 1 queen. The new baby, therefore, was named for the country. She was the granddaughter of John White, who was sent out by Raleigh as governor of the Roanoke colony. Two days after her birth she was baptized “according to the rites of the Church of England.” This was the first celebration of the rite of ! Christian baptism of a North | American bom white child. I Before Virginia was 3 years old, •the coony disappeared, and no on* ! knows to this day what became of | it. The “Lost Colony of Roanoke* | is regarded as one of the mysI teries of history. | One legend is that the colonists intermarried with the Indians and are the ancestors of the present band of Croatan Indians living in ' th? southern part of North Caro- | lina, who number about X). William Strachey, on tire other hand, writing in 1613, states "the men. women and children of the first plantation of Roanoke were killed by practice and commandment of Powhattan.”