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The Curse of Santo Domingo It sometimes seems as if an unkind providence had decreed that the sunlit regions about the Caribbean sea should be the permanent home of turmoil and disaster. This is especially true of the island that the Spanish adventurers called Hispaniola—the island which is the home of the Dominican Republic. From the moment of its discovery to the present day it has had a turbulent history, and misery and desolation have been visited on its people times without number. The hurricane is only the latest in a long list of catastrophes. Perhaps the earliest Spanish conquerors began it when they systematically exterminated the native inhabitants and replaced them with luckless blacks, dragged from their homes in Africa by slave traders. Before the white men can, Hispaniola probably was peaceful, save for an occasional hurricane. But Columbus' arrival seems to have signalized the beginning of anew era—an era in which battle, murder and sudden death were to be regular, anticipated events in the lives of the islanders. Sir Francis Drake swooped down on Santo Domingo once, took the city by dint of hard fighting and looted it of all valuables that the retreating inhabitants had forgotten to take with them. Other pirates followed; indeed, Hispaniola was the very center of the buccaneers’stamping ground for nearly two centuries. The island passed from Spanish rule to French, and in the last decade of the eighteenth century some faint echoes of the French revolution hit a responsive chord in the breasts of the Islanders and they lose to massacre the whites, carrying through the job with thoroughgoing savagery. There were wars and rumors of wars; Spain took charge once more and was ousted by a successful civil •war- an army came over the mountains from Haiti to lay waste and despoil the land around Santo Domingo; peace was established and a dreary succession of minor civil wars followed, punctuated with sporadic murders and culminating in an unusually bloody uprising that finally brought the United States marines to the scene, bringing law and order on the gleaming (points of their sharpened bayonets. And now, as a final period to this long tale of trouble, comes the hurricane—suddenest and sharpest blow of all—with the ancient city of Santo Domingo nearly destroyed, and with hundreds of people struck dead in an hour’s time. There is little that one can say about the hurricane It is the embodiment of the threat that hangs perpetually over the West Indies; the final curse that lies perpetually in wait for the people who live about the lovely Caribbean; the last chapter in a story of disasters.

World Judge Kellogg Apparently it is all settled that former Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg will be elected a judge of the world court. That will be a double gesture—a gesture of friendship lor the United States and a tribute to the Kellogg pact and its author.* Kellogg deserves recognition for his labors in behalf of the treaty to outlaw war, though there are several younger and better informed international lawyers in this country who doubtless would make abler world judges. The tragedy of Kellogg is that he sincerely desired to make that treaty a great peaefe achievement to atone somewhat for his mistaken state department policies, and that others emasculated his treaty until it became meaningless. In its present form, the Kellogg pact is valuable as a moral weapon and a point of departure for a real anti-war structure but it is nothing more. Far from outlawing war. it actually sanctions— through the interpretative diplomatic notes which preceded its signing—the types of war which are most common, such as so-called defensive wars.This newspaper and a majority of Americans who supported the Kellogg pact as a first step had a right to hope that the pact would be strengthened and carried forward long before this. Instead when the United States government had a chance at the recent London naval conference to give reality to the Kellogg treaty by entering a supplemental consultative pact, it refused. Our government’s failure to go ahead along the line started by the Kellogg treaty also emphasizes the strange delay of the Hoover administration in obtaining senate acceptance of the protocol by which this nation will become a world court member. The administration is pledged and repledged to action on this issue, and yet it continues the delay which has characterized earlier administrations. Selection of an American as one of the judges is far less important than American adherence* to the W'orld court as a member.

Prison Progress in New Jersey Dwight Morrov; has gained an international reputation as an astute diplomat through his work in Mexico. It is very possible, however, that his permanent reputation may rest quite as much upon an achievement of which the American public has heard but little. More than a decade ago he launched comprehensive reforms in New Jersey which have made that state one of the few in the country that are trying to handle delinquents in a scientific ana humane manner. In the winter 1916-17 the New York Evening Post revealed sensational brutalities and incompetence at the Trenton state prison. Something had to be done. A commission was appointed to investigate. But the usual thing happened. The investigation did not stop with the appointment of the commission to investigate. Mr. Morrow, as chairman of the commission, took his job in dead earnest, in spite of his heavy burdens in connection with J. P. Morgan and war finance. A thoroughgoing investigation was made and sweeping changes recommended. Most of the recommendations were put into operation. The charitable and correctional institutions of the state were centralized and put under the control of a single commissioner of institutions and agencies. The post has been filled competently by Burdette Lewis and William J Ellis, the present commissioner. Under Commissioner Ellis there has been developed a systematic program of classifying and segregating criminals * according to the special types, so that rational treatment may be administered. No one can deal sensibly with hardened crooks, first offenders, the criminal genius, the defective delinquent, aged crooks and mere youths in the same institution. The latest bulletin of the department indicates the remarkable progress already made in this effort at rational classification and separation. For adult male criminals alone no less than six institutions are to be employed: (1) state prison at Trenton for the more hardened adult criminals over 25 years of age; t 2) Leesburg prison farm, for feeble-minded convicts; (3J Bordentown farm, for selected types from the state

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prison; (4) Rahway reformatory for anti-social and homosexual criminals between 16 and 30, with special emphasis upon industrial development; (5) the Annandale reformatory, for the more reformable types over 16, with particular attention to vocational training; and (6) Trenton state hospital for psychopathic prisoners. In addition, the same bulletin makes a strong plea for a seventh institution, one for defective delinquents after the fashion of the admirable plan developed by Dr. Walter N. Thayer at Naponoch, N. Y. Psychology and psychiatry are widely used in classifying and treating the convicts. During the year 1929-30 no less than 5,500 mental examinations have been made by the department. All this is for adult male criminals alone. There also are well diversified institutions for youthful delinquents. Just a hundred years ago a famous prison commission in New Jersey found that old and young, male and female, habitual criminals and first offenders and normal, defective and psychopathic were all herded together. Ofie boy was so small that he had to have an iron yoke put around his neck to keep him from crawling through the bars on his cell floor. The world has moved in New Jersey in a century. Many other states are due for a thorough-going house-cleaning in their institutions for criminals. The successful experience of New Jersey in the last twelve years may offer something in the way of suggestions and guidance to those now groping for better things in other parts of the Union. An American Cheka? Announcement that the department of justice has begun collecting nation-wide crime statistics covers a disquieting development. The department will accept figures of local police. Many of these figures are unreliable. There is the added objection that the system planned leads toward a centralized bureaucratic federal police power. The road between the police blotter and the finished statistical report is lined with local politics. If all crimes reported to the police by victims prove to be too large compared with the number of successful arrests, ammunition is given by the local police department itself to its critics and the political opposition. Conditions being as they are, it is dangerous to put out these police statistics under the seal of the federal government. They will be like the unreliable unemployment figures that have been issued. They will do more harm than good. The new plan of the department of justice calls attention again to the undesirable broadening of its activities. When Supreme Court Justice Stone was at-torney-general, he cut the department’s bureau of investigation staff and business to a minimum. It is unavoidably a bureaucratic organization, hidden from the people, distant from their, control, yet operating in every locality.

Imperceptibly it is getting into more fields. Local police departments which are inefficient, cities which do not want to spend the money to take care of their own crime prevention work, have used this federal bureau as a dumping ground for their business. A striking example is the bureau's rigid, allembracing enforcement of the federal law against joy-riders and children who run other people’s automobiles across state lines. The author of that law, Representative Dyer of Missouri, has criticised the way it is enforced. Chairman Wickersham of the Hoover crime commission recently told the American Bar Association that, the government is not equipped to deal with juvenile delinquents. The federal bureau of prisons has been burdened with a job it should not have and does not want; the federal courts and prosecutors have been given cases they should not be bothered with; all becausq, the federal bureau of investigation has been so mechanically “efficient” as to be humanly inefficient. The danger of too close relations between this bureau and the local police departments throughout the land is matter for concern to the local communities. It is one thing for the department of justice to act as a clearing house for fingerprints, and another thing for it to act as a national crime prevention agency, with the police of the various cities co-operating with it. This was tried to some extent during the PalmerDaugherty regimes, and resulted in much injustice. The present move to extend the work of the federal bureau will forge one more link in the chain by which local police will be tied to federal police. And some local police chiefs, imbued with foreign methods, want to develop such a national police system. .A centralized national police system is foreign to American institutions. The country does not want a cheka or anything which approaches that European police and spy institution.

REASON by F ” CK

UNDER the congressional re apportionment which will take place in almost all the states, as a result of the last .census, tne cities will march to a near leadership of the house of representatives and there will be a change in several things. a a a In the first place it will be harder to get appropriations for prohibition enforcement and in the second place it will be harder to limit foreign immigration, for if the cities had their way about it we would throw down the bars and let in all of Europe. a a a We have now reached the place where foreign groups in great centers band together to tell the rest of us what our immigration policy shall be. We thought we had exterminated the hyphenated American in the fires of war-time lovalty, but he has returned stronger than ever. u * tt TT does not require much imagination to see that A by the time the census of 1940 shall be taken, the ever-growing rower of the cities at the expense of the country and the country towns will place the destiny of the United States in the hands of organized foreign blocs. a a a The cheapest politician is the one who capitalizes national feeling, and both parties havg. them who pander to nationalistic societies in return for votes. In fact, political success in great cities depends upon one's ability to juggle the prejudices of foreign groups. a a a WE hear much of the “minority groups” into which our own people have organized themselves, this criticism coming almost entirely from city - statesmen who hold their jobs because they have been able to massage the emotions of the foreign bom. We don't like the group idea in government, but if we must have group government, give us the home group as opposed to the one from across the water. a a a Thomas Jefferson had a perpetual fear of the sinister influence of cities in government and i i he were with us now his soul would be troubled greatly, but what can you do about it when the constant trend is from the country to the cities? i -

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ-

Sizzling Hot Ice Is Produced in Laboratory by Harvard University Professor. ICE hot as a stove in full blast. That is one of the curiosities which Dr. P. W. Bridgman, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard university, : is able to produce in his laboratory. High pressure is the magic which Professor Bridgman employs. He has developed apparatus in his laboratory by which he can obtain a pressure of 290 tons to the square I inch. When he has obtained that pressure, he gets many strange results. : Many gases, for example, turn to thick liquids and can be poured like warm molasses.. Ice kept under this high pressure can be heated to a temperature of 180 degrees without melting. (Water, it w r ill be recalled, boils at ordinary pressure at a temperature of 212 degrees.) Professor Bridgman describes his experiments in a recent report to the Engineering Foundation of New York City. He says that in his experiments the molecules which comprise gases and which normally are flying about without any contact with each other, are driven together by the high pressures. In addition, the atoms composing the molecules are driven closer together. a tt m Opposing Forces PROFESSOR BRIDGMAN’S paradoxical experiments can be understood, if we reflect for a moment upon the nature of solids, liquids and gases and the meaning of boiling and frdfczing. All substances are ( composed of minute particles called molecules. These particles are continuously subjected to two forces. One is the force of their own vibration nr motion. This force tends to separate them and drive them away from each other. The other force is the electro-magnetic attraction which exists between molecules. This force tends to draw them together. 1 Whether a substance exists as a gas, liquid or solid depends upon which force has the upper "hand. In a gas, the vibration or motion so overbalances the attractive force that all the molecules are continuously flying about in all directions. There is no cohesion between molecules at all. In a liquid the two forces are more nearly, equal. The attractive force is strong enough to draw molecules together, but almost immediately the force of vibration causes them to separate. The molecular condition of a liquid, therefore, might be likened to a dance in which the dancers conspicuously are chaniging partners—a sort of super-circle twostep. In a solid, the force of attraction or cohesion has the upper hand and the molecules are bolted into place. They are still in vibration, but their motions are confined to a limited area—like chained dogs which run back and forth within the limits of their leashes.

Energy Content WHETHER a substance exists as a gas, solid at ordinary temperatures and pressures depends upon how strong the two opposing forces are under those conditions. Oxygen is a gas under ordinary conditions because the force of motion has the upper hand. Water is a liquid because the two forces are then about equal. Iron is a solid because the force of cohesion is the stronger. Temperature is really a measure of molecular vibration. When we heat an object we give energy to its molecules and thus increase the rate of vibration. That is why iron turns to a liquid if it is heated enough. When we cool an object we take energy away from it. That is why water freezes or turns to a solid. As We take energy away from the molecules, their rate of vibration becomes so slow that the force of cohesion gains the ascendency. Asa result, the molecules are chained to their positions and the liquid, 'water, becomes a solid, ice. To melt the ice, we must give back energy to the molecules until their force of vibration is sufficiently strong to overcome the cohesive force. What Professor Bridgman does Js to subject the ice to tremendous pressure. This aids the cohesive force and pushes the molecules closer together than they normally exist. Now when heat is applied, the molecules do not get enough energy to break their chains. Consequently, the ice remains a solid, though it is heated almost to the ordinary boiling point of water.

BOSTON POLICE STRIKE ON Sept. 9, 1919, following the suspension of nineteen officers for activities connected with their affiliation with the American Federation of Labor, 1,500 Boston policemen went on strike to enforce the recognition of their newly formed union. It was the first police strike in the United States. Rioting and disturbance immediately resulted and a provost guard was brought from the navy yard to quell the disturbers. Stores throughout the city were broken into and robbed. The following day the city was placed under martial law and cavalry and 5,000 members of the state guard patrolled the streets. Governor Calvin Coolidge telegraphed the secretary of war and the secretary of navy Asking for federal military assistance in case the state guard was insufficient. Shortly after this, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, requested that the policemen return to their posts until after the industrial conference. Coolidge refused to give the striking policemen back their jobs and anew body of policemen was formed. Through the nationwide attention he attracted by his firm stand for law and order Coolidge gained political fame. Asa result he became vice-presi-dent and later president, on the death of President Harding.

BELIEVE ITORNOT

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Following in the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” which appeared in Monday’s Times; The Musical Rocks—These unique rocks are located on a farm ” near Marblehead, Mass. They were arranged by the Indians long ago and still are in

DAILY health service Examine Child Starting in School

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Ilygeia, the Health Maeazine. SEPTEMBER is school time. All over this land of general education children will begin their perhaps unwilling progress toward the schoolhouses. Investigations made during the last few years have revealed the fact that about 3 per cent of the children will not hear sufficiently well to take advantage of the teaching and a considerable number will not be able to see the figures that the teacher puts on the blackboard. Many of the children will be little inclined to education because their nutrition is bad. Some of the children will be infested with intestinal worms that sap their energy. Bad teeth and tonsils will in

IT SEEMS TO ME BY 11 BROUN 0

THE new theatrical season hardly has begun, and yet one actor has established himself as a certain candidate for anybody’s best-performances-of-the-year list. And to add the proper dramatic touch, this actor found his fame in the very first performance he ever made on Broadway. Nor is he any stripling. To me the age of 40 .hardly puts cne in the sere and yellow, and yet it is a rather belated time for a metropolitan debut. Name him! Name him! There will be no surprise in that, for all the critics have acclaimed him already. Naturally, I am referring to Guy Kibbee, who plays the part of mortician drummer in “Torch Song.” Probably you know that the play is a story of religion and romance in the sticks. All the important action takes place in a fourth-rate hotel in a third-rate town. Mr. Kibbee, I am informed, has been many years an actor, although his activities previously were re-, stricted to those areas which lie outside the promised land. n n a * Familiar IT well may be, accordingly, that he, too, has known just such hotels and such traveling men as are portrayed in “Torch Song.” He is more at home than any other person in the cast. Yet the true explanation of his success must lie in the fact that he is in every ample inch an actor. Such being the case, it seems to me a pity that his chance has been delayed so long. The public is fond of stories about genius starving in garrets and of sudden success coming to men and women who have long striven for it obscurely. And yet every such case marks the failure of the community to keep its weather eye open for talent. It is not a good thing for anybody that an apprenticeship should be so long. The fewer mute Miltons the better. a a a Sincere AT least one city servant seems to be a valiant man struggling as best he can against vast odds. I’ve studied New York's Free Employment Bureau and talked to Edward C. Ryblci, its chief. I think there is no doubt of the sincerity and honesty of Mr. Rybici. He personally and profoundly is touched by the plight of the jobless. And with the materials he has at hand he is doing the best he can. But New Yorkers have no right to I compliment themselves on civic i achfevemefits in respect to unem-

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the same position. The rocks emit musical tones of several degrees’ variation when struck with a stone or other hard object. The varying tones are caused by the different shapes and sizes of the stones.

many cases be responsible for chronic infections that keep the constitution subnormal and which therefore interfere with attention, interest and ambition. Indeed, by all the rules of experience, many children who are put into the schools for the usual teaching will be so subnormal mentally that they can not possibly keep up with the average of the class. Asa result of their difficulties they will develop mental attitudes leading toward degeneracy and anti-social conduct. Such considerations as have been presented have, more than any other consideration, prompted hygienists and educators to urge that every child have a physical examination to secure a health rating and to be made as physically fit as possible%efore school begins. In many school districts throughout the country, organized plans

ploymentr The community hardly can be blamed for the Met that joblessness is widespread. That is not only a national, but an international problem. Yet it is cruel that men should have to stand in line so long for the mere prospect of a chance to work. They must come back day after day. The time of waiting may vary from two to four hours. A few of the more desperate applicants are on hand by 4 in the morning. By 6 or 7 the lineup is above the thousand mark. a a a Syjstenp TT -might be possible to work out some system of notification after registration, but in the present state of the labor market this is difficult. The employer who has a job to give expects service within an hour or so. Accordingly, both the registered and unregistered must wait in line each day, find some position which they can fill chalked up upon the blackboard inside thd office. ' f The staff is too small; the quarters are too small; the appropriation is too small. The men on the line have a right to be cynical. There was a man

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Editor Times—Judging from your editorials, you thin'- the wage earners should have steady employment at the present wage rate. This can not be. Soon after the close of the World war the European farmers came back into normal production and the result was that prices of farm products fell* to about pre-war levels. But the European manufacturers could not get back into production so soon, and the result has been that American manufacturers have been able to export much of their prod-1 ucts at nearly war-time levels, and wage-earners had full time employment at wages nearly as high as those prevailing during the war. Now, with the aid of American capital, European manufacturers are getting into production again. As a result our exports of manufactured godos have decreased greatly. The millions of men thus thrown out of employment can not go back to the farms from which many were attracted to the city by high wages, because our farms now are equipped with labor-saving Implements. If all men who want work are given steady jobs, we must regain our large exports. ■* This can be dong if we meet, the prices of European manufacturers,

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provided for regular inspections of all children in school and for attending to the correction of physical deficiencies thereafter. In the vast majority of instances, however, such organized effort is not put forth. Perhaps it is far better that parents take the initiative and take the child to the family physician before the beginning of school for a physical examination and for correction of such defects as may be determined. Experience has shown that the chief defects usually fotind concern the sight, the hearing, the tonsils and adenoids, the teeth, flat feet, bad posture, and nutrition. The defects are practically all correctible. When they are corrected the child has a better chance to succeed in his school work, and certainly more opportunity for a happier existence.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column a*e those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of (his oaper.—The Editor.

who torn me that he already had spent in all twenty-four fruitless hours of waiting in the human traffic jam. “Why do you come?” I asked him. “I come,” he said, “so that when anybody asks me, ‘Are you doing anything to try to get a job?’ I can tell ’em, ‘Yes’.” a a Giants A MAGAZINE editor, I find, is a man who says “Sit down,” then knits his brows for five minutes and suddenly brightens as he exclaims, “Why don’t you do us a series like Mr. Dooley?” The talk veered ’round among a little group of serious thinkers to that same Finley Peter Dunne, and one man said he thought the humorist had once coined the most devastating line ever written about any American public man. It was Dunne’s Mr. Dooley who remarked of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt ’s book on the San Juan hill adventure, “It should have been called ‘Alone in Cuba.’ ” But my favorite still remains the description of the American ambassador at the Court of St. James, who was “traveling to Buckingham palace as fast as his hands r.d knees would carry him.” (Copyright. 1930. bv The Times)

and not otherwise. To do so, wages must be reduced, and, above all, profits must be re* duced. Reduced prices of manufactured

Questions and Answers

How did Wall Street in New York gets its name? The early Dutch settlers of Manhattan built a wall to the north of their settlement as a protection against Indian raids. Wall Street now runs along the site of the old wall, hence the name. What is geometry? It is the branch of pure mathematics that treats of space and its relations; the science of the mutual relations of points, lines, angles, surfaces and solids, considered as having no properties but those arising from extension and difference of situation. What is the value of a United States dime dated 1841? • From 10 cents to 28 cents."

.SEPT. 9, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

\Some State Primaries This Week Seem to Have Shrunk to the Proportions of an Hley Mud Fight. A NORTHERN New York farmer is suing a neighbor whose bees flew onto his premises, filched his honey and stung his horse. Let us hope that if the case comes to trial, the bees will be brought I into court for purpose of identification and sting everybody. Jack (Legs) Diamond is suing German authorities, not only because they refused to let him land, but because they are sending him back home on a freighter. To make the episode entirely consistent, Germany ought to sue our state department for getting her into the mess. Great is the law. tt St tt Just an Alley Mud Fight WITH ten states holding primaries this week, one’s thought naturally turns to politics. It would be a happier thought if there were less personality and more principle In the issue. But somehow' the performance seems to have shriveled to the proportions of a mud fight between old women in a back alley. Such questions as whether Louisiana can stomach Huey P. Long, or whether Michigan should turn dowm Senator Couzens because he has not always been regular from the Republican viewpoint, serve no purpose so distinctly as to obliterate constructive discussion. An outsider would think we had nothing to talk about except some vulgar trivialities. ana Too Much Money CHEVALIER, the French actor, just has signed, a contract which will net him $20,000 a W'eek, if not more. It sounds intriguing, if not a little unjust. More than one youth will dream of the stage as an easy road to fortune because of it. But, like everything else in life, it has another and a darker side. “Easy come, easy go,” is not a meaningless proverb, especially in the field of amusement. Monday morning, a woman of scarcely more than 30, was haled into a New York court, because she couldn’t pay a $3.50 taxi fare. Ten years ago, that woman was earning $3,500 a week as a dancer on Broadway. . a a u > Must Deliver the Goods PEOPLE are fickle with their favorites, whether on the stage or in the more serious business of politics. More often than not, their fickleness is justified because of the way popularity swells the average head, because of the shoddy stuff that is passed off by those who think they have made themselves solid, because of the liberties people take when they think they can get away with it. No .matter what you can do, or how far you succeed, you must continue to deliver the goods if you would hold the crowd, and there are plenty of ex-kaisers, ex-danccrs and ex-congressmen to prove it.

We On Rejoice FROM a national standpoint, British newspapers are right in bemoaning the fall of Irigoyen. He was partial to the development of British interests in Argentina, and in so far as such attitude made it necessary he was not particularly kind toward development of American interests. To about the same extent that our British cousins can discover a cause for sadness in his unhappy fate, we can discover reasons for rejoicing. Not that the new regime promises to be prejudiced in our favor, but that it is likely to be fair, which is all we ask. In this connection the speed and precision with which Irigoyen was overthrown and anew government established augurs well for Argentina’s immediate future. Obviously, this was no half-baked rebellion, set off spontaneously by sparks of discontent, or guided by a leadership which had not considered carefully what should be done after the shooting was over. Back of the dramatic events which occurred last week and which resulted in a complete change of government, there must have been months of organizing. When General Uriburu gave the word, nofc only the army, but the navy, struck as one man. Not only that, but the people apparently were back of them. Not only that, but they ere ready to name a government before disorder had time to take advantage of the demoralized conditions which usually go with revolution. History contains few Aises in which such a complete change was brought about with such little disturbance. Argentinians have a right to feel proud of their achievement, while the rest of the world is justified in accepting their new government with confidence.

goods not only will regain our exports, but will result In a greater consumption here at home, especially by farmers. Evans Woollen may well add to his “Catalog of Follies, Fast and Present,” the folly of attempting to hold wages to the present high level and also the folly of attempting tq keep manufacturers’ profits at the level that prevailed from the close of the war until one year ago. The situation in this country is aggravated by the shortage in the production of gold, whl|h is resulting in a drop in prices the world over. H. M. CHADWICK. Morristown, Ind.

Daily Thought

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.—Hebrews 11:1. Faith is the force of life.—Tolstoi. What does the word Mississippi mean? It is an Indian name meaning “great waters” or “the gathering in of all the waters.”