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A Good Day at the Polls Tuesday was a bad day for prohibition, race prejudice, religious bigotry, and political reaction. At the primary polls in eight states the people lopped off the political heads of sundry dry leaders, standpatters, and lynching exponents; and, at the same Übia. rewarded several progressive leaders. Thanks to the intelligence of Michigan voters, Jim Couzens is coming back to the senate. His easy Republican nomination means election. That has put crepe on the door of the old guard headquarters down in Washington. How they hate that man! It is bad enough for a Norris or a La Follette to go progressive, but when a multimillionaire like Couzens fights against the special interests it is more than they can stand. He everlastingly is showing up the tricks of Mellon and the treasury department, calling the bluff of dry lobbyists, poking his finger into shady power deals, checking the railroad and radio corporations, and otherwise throwing monkey wrenches into the welloiled machine. Since the day Couzens boosted the wages of Ford workers, broke with Henry and retired on his millions, he has been his own boss. That is why the people want him back in the senate, where he is without fear, but is feared by the bosses and the lobbyists. WJjjle Michigan Republicans were returning Senator Couzens, out in Colorado the Democrats were nominating for the senate an expert in government whose technical knowledge is matched by liberal convictions, Edward P. Costigan. He used to be a member of the federal tariff commission, where he stood out against the efforts to make that body a rubber stamp for the politicians and high rate seekers. Running against Costigan will be George H. Shaw, who won the Republican senatorial nomination from the Anti-Saloon League candidate, William V. Hodges, and others. Superintendent Finch of the Anti-Saloon League was exposed in the role of selling wildcat oil stock to political offics holders and candidates. Shaw represented the ring of Senator Waterman, while Hodge was picked by the retiring boss, Senator Phipps. With the Republican politicians kicking each other’s ships in factional rows, it is itpeky for Colorado and the country that the candidate is of the unusual caliber of Costigan. Meanwhile. South Carolina has repented after forty years and dug the political grave for that unlamented genius of bigotry, Cole Blease. He has traded on racial and religious hatred to hold public office for the last time. The former Governor and senator can now preach his lynching gospel at home in his own back yard, and whether he continues to vote dry and drink wet will not matter. No one will miss him in the senate but his fellow clown, Heflin of Alabama—who may not be there himself after election day. What a laugh for A1 Smith to see the three horsemen of the great bolt of 1928 go down one by one—first the ancient Simmons of North Carolina, then Heflin and Blease! Any one would be better than Blease. But James F. Byrnes, who will take Cole’s seat in the senate, is beter than the average. When last in Washington he was a hard-working and creditable congressman. Louisiana didn’t have a chance to do so well. It was a choice of two evils in a dirty campaign. To defeat the reactionary and hereditary Senator Raflsdell, or to keep the unreliable Huey Long from climbing from the Governor’s chair to the senate seat, was the question. The people decided apparently that Long, with all his wild antics, could hardly be as bad as the Democratic Ransdell, who usually voted more blindly that the Republican old guard itself. If Long doesn’t turn out to be another Blease or Heflin the country will be relieved. Beneath the rise and fall of political personalities in many of the Tuesday primaries was the sweeping undertown of wet revolt. It was the same tide which recently carried to victory Dwight Morrow in New Jersey, Jim Ham Lewis in Illinois and Bulkley in Ohio. In addition to the Anti-Saloon League's senatorial defeats in Michigan and Colorado on Tuesuay, the dry losses were heaviest in the congressional primaries in the state of Washington and Michigan. Two of the chief dry leaders in the house of representatives are Grant M. Hudson and Louis C. Cramton, both of Michigan. Hudson has now been defeated. Cramton, after fifteen years in office, has been flayed so hard by his wet opponent that a recount probably will be necessary to determine the winner. Two other dry congressmen from Washington also appear to be defeated on the basis of incomplete returns. And Washington is the state which not so long ago gave to the nation the author of the insufferable flve-and-ten prohibition law, Senator Wesley L. Jones. But Washington is learning. Both Republican and Democratic state conventions have gone wet. That has made Five-and-Ten Jones attempt to straddle the popular referendum fence, where sits Ruth Hanna McCormick and other suddenly timid dry senatorial candidates, hoping to escape the wet flood. All in all, the Tuesday primaries indicate that the voters are not so dumb as the politicians and special interests of one kind and another want them to be. And since these primaries are in line with earlier results in other states, there may be a whole let for the people to cheer about by the time the November elections are over. More About the Great Givers The national bureau of economic research has published a report on gifts of American corporations to community chests since 1920. The bureau selected for its study 129 representative cities, of the >58,801,872 contributed In 1929 to the community chests of these 129 cities, $12,954,769, or 22 per cent,* was contributed by corporations. Manufacturing corporations rated highest in percentage oi gifts. They contributed 47.2 per cent of the total. Next came retail and trade companies with 22.4 per cent. Third were banks and trust companies with 10.7 per cent. Especially low were chain stores with 2.9 per cent, and insurance companies with 1.5 per cent. The total benefactions look impressive until one goes deeper Into the facts. The decade from 1920 to 1929 was an unparalleled one in corporate business and profits. Did corporate gifts to community chests increase accordingly? Hardly, Fourteen of the 129 community chests studied were In existence in 1920. Thirteen supplied information for the decade. , In 1920, corporations contributed 23.8 cent

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of the total of these thirteen community chests. In 1929 they contributed only 22.9 per cent, and this was a boom year until mid-autumn. Moreover, the number of corporations contributing to these thirteen community chest doubled between 1920 and 1929—2,652 in 1920 and 5,127 in 1929. Yet the total contributions from corporations increased but slightly—s2,s3s,ooo in 1920 and $2,799,000 in 1929. Hence, corporations fell far behind in even this bonanza decade in keeping up their share of contributions to organized community welfare. The charitable enterprise of organized capital appear even less impressive when viewed in the light of another series of researches carried on by this same national bureau of economic research. We refer to the studies of income in the United States. In 1928 employers received 42.38 per cent of the total national income of $89,419,000,000 and wage earners but 36.05 per cent. In 1926, 98.928 per cent of the income-receiving population (44,194,550 in number) received an income of less than $5,000 a year. In 1927 each person actually employed received an average of $1,205. Even in the great wartime boom year of 1918, 4.86 per cent of the employed received less than SSOO a year; 33.35 per cent from SSOO to $1,000; ,33.26 per cent from SI,OOO to $1,500; 13.89 per cent from $1,501 to $2,000, and 8.15 per cent from $2,000 to $3,000. Without drawing any more decisive conclusion!, these figures prove that we can not allow corporate wealth to expand unrestrained and expect that its representatives will accept and execute the responsibility of insuring a square deal to society in the way of a large return to charity. Even if they so could be trusted, this would be an undesirable method of insuring general well-being. The only way to proceed is to see to it that workers get a decent break in the way of steady employment, fair wages, tolerable working conditions and real unemployment insurance. Then let corporate wealth take its legitimate earnings and do as it pleases with them.

Why So Much Pessimism? It is quite possible for a man to spend altogether too much time with books. Much study, as the writer of Ecclesiastes remarked, is a weariness of the flesh. Still, keeping in constant touch with representative modern novels does put interestong ideas into one’s head now and then. A confirmed reader of present-day fiction occasionally will get to wondering, for instance, why it is that the modern novelist has such a predisposition to pessimism. Sweetness and light are not exactly the chief characteristics of the ordinary novel of the day. The novelist of the better class usually surveys the surrounding world for some 300 pages or more and finds it rotten to the core. Book after book assures us that the human race is a fairly shoddy outfit, and writer after writer tells us that instead of being a little lower than the angels we are only a little higher than the barnyard fowls. Now- all this is worth thinking about. One of three things must be true: The race is behaving worse than it was, our novelist have keener eyes, than the novelists of an earlier generation—or else, perchance, our novelists are mostly mistaken. It is rather instructive, in this connection, to compare the modern viewpoint with the view-point of such a writer as Charles Dickens. It can hardly be said that the modern novelist “knows life,” as they say, better than Dickens. Taken by and large, the picture that he gives of English civilization and the human race generally in such books as “Oliver Twist” and “Nicholas Nickleby’’ is very depressing; yet the final impression left by those books is not one of despair. A modern writer, putting the same pictures into a book, would deduce that thS world is a hopeless place; Dickens, on the contrary, was an optimist, even though he saw quite as much of the seamy side of life as any modern writer you could name. You can come to any conclusion you like about this. It may be that the modern is, on the whole, a wiser man than Dickens; and it may be that the presentday tendency toward despair is something that will pass, in the fullness of time, giving way to a philosophy that has more in common with Dickens’. Just at present it is fashionable to see the darker side of things—which, considering all has happened in the last decade or so, is not surprising. But one is at least permitted to wonder whether this mood will endure. Waiters in some hotels in Canada are wearing gold epaulettes to distinguish them from guests. What those boys really need, if you ask the guests, is service stripes.

REASON TSST

THE home-made miniature golf course is abandoned; the sand pile’s deserted; the fishing pole are parked on the back porch; the wagons rest from the labors cf the summer; the shacks are empty; there is a strange silence everywhere and the dog sits wrapped in loneliness, wondering what's the matter. The kids have gone to school. 808 Our hats is off to Coste and Bdllonte. the daring Frenchmen, and we would not disparage their gallantry, but there's only one fellow in the history of this world who ever had the nerve to fly the Atlantic all alone, and his name is Lindbergh. 808 ALL of us who lie awake at night because we worry about frivolous things tender our respects to Coste, who was able to wrap himself in an army blanket and go to sleep just an hour before hopping off. tt tt a * Ruth Hanna McCormick has made thousands of votes for herself by her statement that she hired detectives to investigate Senator Nye, that she is going to say with it to the end and by her challenge: “What are you going to do about it?” If Nye were even remotely related to the late humorist, Bill Nye. he would not fume about it; he would realize that the joke is on him. 808 THE prince of Wales just has been promoted three times, once in the army, once in the navy, and once in the flying corps. It’s always a great satisfaction to see a battlescarred hero get what's coming to him. BBS It’s not fair to hold Mayor Walker responsible for the crookedness m the government of New York City, for he's busily engaged as chairman of the United States reception committee, he hasn’t time to look at anything else. With the exception of Christopher Columbus, Walker has welcomed every celebrity who has come here from abroad. 808 It s too bad -Coste and Bellonte didn t get here in time to be lionized at the national air races in Chicago. f

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ—

Use of Electricity Would, Be Greatest Marvel to Visitor From Past Century. WE live in an age of electricity. A visitor from a past century, perhaps, would be more surprised by the use of electricity than by any other factor in modern life. The way in which Aie snap of a switch floods a room with light, toasts a piece of bread, starts a washing machine or a street car or an elevator, would appear like magic. The visitor would be impressed by the long transmission lines, the wires which go across fields and hills on the high steel towers, carrying electric power to distant towns and farm houses. \ Perhaps he would be most impressed by the magic of the bsiephone, the radio and television. It is hard for the average citizen of. the twentieth century to realize that 100 years ago these marvels were undreamed of. The basic discovery upon which all modern electrical miracles axs based was made ninety-nine years ago. Next year, on Aug. 29, 1931, the world will celebrate the centennial of the discovery. a a a * A Great Event THE great discovery was the discovery of electro-magnetic induction, mad on Aug. 29, 1831, by Michael Faraday, working in his laboratory at the Royal institution in London. The experiment was a simple one. Faraday wound two coils of wire on an iron ring. He connected one coil to an electric battery. The other coil was connected to a galvanometer, the rude forerunner of such meters on the dashboard of your automobile.

Faraday found that at the moments that the connection between the first coil and the battery was either made or broken, a current was set up or “induced” in the second coil. This was evidenced by the behavior of the needle of the galvonometep Faraday demonstrated that when the current started in the first coil, the coil was surrounded by an electro-magnetic field or “field of force.’’ When this field cut across the second coil, it caused an electric current to be set up in the second coil. This phenomenon of electric induction is the foundation of every electric dynamo, motor and transformer. Asa preliminary announcement issued by the Royal Institution of London concerning plans for next year’s celebration says, “No other experiment in physical science has been more fruitful in benefit for mankind. “Aug. 29, 1931, is. then, Ithe centenary of one of the great events in the history of the world.”

Royal Institution IT is interesting to note that the Royal institution, in which Faraday performed his experiment, is still one of the world’s great scientific centers. Its present director is Sir William Bragg, famous authority upon the X-Ray and crystal structure. (It was this writer's pleasurable experience a few years ago to visit the laboratory where Faraday performed the memorable experiment with Sir William acting as his guides The Royal institution and the institution of electrical engineers of Great Britain have joined forces to plan next year’s celebration. Many other famous organizations, including the Royal Society, will co-op-erate in the celebration. The British Asosciation for the Advancement of Science, which celebrates its 100th meeting next year, is making plans to hold its centenary meeting in London at the same time that the Faraday celebration is being held. In connection with the celebration, the Royal institution plans trie publication of a diary which Faraday kept in his own handwriting. The diary is extremely voluminous and will require six or eight volumes to contain all of it. The institution hopes to have at least the first two volumes in print at the time of the celebration. Faraday did important work in the field of chemistry as well as that of electricity and it is expected that his diary will prove of interest to scientists throughout the world.

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BATTLE OF BRANDYWINE September 11

ON Sept. 11, 1777, Washington met the British at Brandywine in one of the most crucial battles of the Revolutionary war. General Howe started out to take Philadelphia, then the capital of the United States. Washington had not enough men to meet~Tiim in open fight, but by skillful moves, prevented him from crossing New Jersey and obliged him to go by sea. Howe sailed south, entered Chesapeake bay, and, landing at the head of it, marched against Philadelphia with a force of 18,000 men. Washington met him at Brandywine creek with but 11,000 men. Washington was forced to retire from the field, but the defeat was so slight that he was able to detain Howe for a fortnight on the march of only twenty-six miles to Philadelphia. The British finally entered the city on Sept. 26 and encamped at Germantown, where Washington attacked him. But his plan to rout the invaders failed when, in the fog, one American battalion fired into the other by mistake, thus causing a sudden panic in the ranks. Washington then fell back to the hills on the Schuylkill at Valley Forge, about twenty miles northwest of Philadelphia.

Daily Thought

And God looked upon the earth and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted nis way upon the earth.—Genesis 6:12. I have seen corruption boil and bubble till it o’errun the stew. Shakespeare. >

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Following is the explanation of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not”' which appeared in Wednesday’s Times: Xing Henry Invented the Yard Measure The word “yard” is ancient Anglo-Saxon, and has been in use in England from ancitnt times. King Henry I Beauclerc, who ruled England in the twelfth century, is credited with its establishment as

Complications of Measles Serious

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. UNTIL the seventeenth century so little was known about scarlet fever and measles that they frequently were confused. Then the great physician. Sydeham, recognized them as definite conditions. Since that time scientific medicine has been gaining ground slowly in its battle against these two serious infectious diseases. After a period of invasion 1 of three or four days and a preceding incubation period of about two weeks, the chief symptom of measles, the eruption, extends all over the body. During the invasion period in this as in other infectious diseases, the patient has running nose and some fever and sore throat. While few people die of measles, the complications of the disease account for many. Few children have

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IT had been my intention to say no more in this column about cats vs. dogs, but to let them fight it out in the manner laid down by tradition. But no columnist should look a gift contribution in the eye, particularly when it comes from a distinguished writer such as William McFee. Mr. McFee has a right to his day in court, since he was nominated here as a fine novelist who gained his skill by leisure spent on ships. A contact with cats also was mentioned as a useful sort of training for the better stylists. Carl Van Vechten was nominated, but I forgot Agnes Repplier is almost as great an authority on felines. Mr. McFee denies, with some indignation, the leisure periods which I assured were common in the lives of mariners, but he confesses to the cats and writes as follows: nan William McFee IWAS losing a few dollars in a gentlemanly way at Saratoga Springs when your piece about‘Conrad, Cats and Literature’ came out. and I only just have seen it. Asa man who not only has been to sea, but keeps a cat, you will allow me to point out the acute difference between a cat fancier and a citizen who merely has a cat. “In the beginning, however, I was struck by your cheerful assumption that the sailor has the great boon of idle time. Mr. Broun, the first four, or five years I spent at sea I averaged about "eleven hours a day, including Sunday, and about nine in port, including any day that the ship arrived or departed. “I have, Mr. Broun, worked thirtysix hours at one stretch in a gale of wind that canted the ship, which was flying light, away over and did not help us to ship anew steam expansion joint over the after boilers. “In case you are not familiar with expansion joints, they are about seventeen feet long, shaped like a giant boa constrictor and ■weigh about a ton. I remember the time because we got in on Saturday and I slept through the week-end and missed a date with the barmaid at the King's Head, at Cardiff—a very nice girl. “I would like to mention that a deal of Conrad’s humor is riot perceptible to the landsman. I have to remember this in insisting on it. But it is there. “His rendering of the subtle relations between Captain MacWhirr (in ‘Typhoon’) and his chief mate is masterly and a source of unending pleasure to the initiated But neither MacWhirr nor his mate is credible JLo an American public which has secn brought up,on the

On request, sent with stamped addressed envelope, Mr. Ripley will furnish proof of anything depicted by him.

a unit of linear dimension, by his making it that distance from the point of his nose to the end of his thumb. Baby Rose Marie Can ping 94 Songs Baby Rose Marie, though but 5 years old, is a nationally known radio artist and vaudeville headliner. She is doings a vaude-

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the disease before they are six months old; therefore, the number of deaths in that period are few. The disease has a mortality of about 5 per cent when taken care of under the best conditions and from 15 to 25 per cent in the presence of epidemics under the worst conditions, such as among soldiers in barracks in war time. Chief complications responsible for death are broncho-pneumonia and the other lung complications. The symptoms of measles are known to almost every one. The disease varies greatly in its severity, however, and sometimes a very mild eruption with mild general symptoms is overlooked, or mistaken for a food rash or some similar complaint. Asa result of failure to recognize and isolate the case, any number of children coming in contact with the suspected case may develop more serious forms of the disease. Although some hundreds of years

twaddle Jack London and Peter B. Kyne write about seafaring. “I have a particular antipathy to Cappy Ricks, because a passenger who admired him gave me a quarter for showing him ;ny engine room one?. That ended it for me. Peter B. Kyne could not possibly be a good writer. tt tt * a Dogs Are Dumb “OUT as one who kept several cats for many years on ships I think you miss the secret of their fascination. They are sensible. They are intelligent. “The very stories that dog lovers tell about dogs show that the dog— , and the lovers, too, for that matter —q[re not very intelligent. All they do prove is that the dog and his lover are on about the same plane of idiocy. That is why we like dogs, because they are so human. But a cat is another thing altogether. He, or she, is a personality altogether independent of the stately human race. “,And I had one cat which would follow us up to the old man’s room when we went to get some money to go ashore and rub her fur against his leg. She wanted to go ashore and live her own life, too. She did, for that matter. “And she lost her passage, because we sailed some hours before the appointed time. Peace to her remains on some Greek dump! “I disagree that a cat is a snob. She is merely well breed. Any cat has better manners than the haughtiest Pinscher. “And I have a cat which enjoys, more than anything else, sleeping on an unfinished manuscript. I needn’t tell you what a dog does to an unfinished manuscript.” tt 'a a Unfinished THERE is a story that the publication of Ernest Hemingway’s fine book, “A Farewell to Arms,” was delayed for almost six months because a bull terrier came upon the manuscript and worried it into shreds. I have my doubts. To me this suggests the sort of story an author might cook up to soothe the feelings of a published impatiently waiting a delivery. My own testimony would have to be that dogs are not interested in manuscripts—at least, not mine. I was interested greatly once when Captain Flagg came up to a half-finished novel of mine, lying on a low table, and undertook to in- | vestigate, just what sort of tale this might be. He sniffed for maybe thirty seci ends, but the emanations of the book failed to arome his Interest,

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have passed since the first recognition of measles as a disease, the specific causative germ has not been determined. Various investigators, from time to time, have thought that the germ was in their hands, but the proof has not been satisfactory and after the passing of a few years the claims have been dropped. N~ -ertheless it is quite certainly established that the disease is infectious, that it can be pasesd from one person to another with secretions such as sputum or nasal fluid from the body, and that blood taken from a person with the disease carries the infection. The blood is also the substance which carries the antibodies against the disease. Hence in the modern treatment of serious cases of measles, it is customary to get blood from someone recently recovered and to inject this into the body of the seriously sick patient.

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

for after this brief survey he walked away. And from that day to this I never have been able to induce him to nose around any of my novels. He wouldn’t think of chewing them. To him they are just so much puppy biscuit. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times) How many children did the late President Roosevelt have? Six; one by his first wife, Alice, who is now Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, and five by the second marriage; Theodore, Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow (Mrs. Richard Derby), Archibald and Quentin. Quentin was killed in France in the World war. The other children are living. If I started to work for a penny a day, and doubled my pay for each day for thirty days, how much would 1 make? Figuring 1 cent for the first day, 2 cents for the second, 4 the third, et cetera, your salary at the end of thirty days w r ould be $5,368,709.12. How did marriage and divorces in the United States compare in 1927? There were 1,200,694 marriages and 192,037 divorces.

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Too Many People Are Hunting Jobs, While Too Fcio Are Try in g to Create Them. S HOUSE and Fess disagree over the result in Maine. They would. It is a part of the game, and not the least important part, to admit nothing and claim everything. Meanwhile, the outstanding feature of Maine’s election was the vast’number who failed to vote. If the country goes as Maine goes, it will stay at home. Democrats may get a modicum of consolation out of those Republicans who were too dumb, indifferent, or lazy to register an opinion, or vice versa, but it is not a reassuring sign. e a a Too Bad Long Won IN South Carolina and Louisiana, a personal row- served to bring out a much larger percentage of voters. In spite of all that has been said about popular interest and intelligence, there is nothing like an oldfashioned knock-down-and-drag-out to remind citizens of their responsibility. South Carolina Democrats are to be congratulated for retiring Cole Blease. Too bad, Louisiana couldn’t have met them half way by keeping Huey P. Long at home. However the respective states may feel about it, the nation gains little through such an exchange. a a z Little of interest SENATOR COUZENS wins a renomination in Michigan, though not by what you would call a landslide, Phipps appears to have lost his grip on Colorado, and the wets seem to have captured Washington. By and large, the election in Maine and the primaries in eight states offer little interest to seriousminded folks. If any of the major problems played a part, or any of the real issues were discussed from a constructive standpoint, we have yet to hear about it. If the Hoover administration was on trial, or such questions as the tariff, prohibition, or unemployment were touched upon except in that pandering, smushhead way by which the average politician seeks to befuddle the average voter, it has yet to be reported. oat r This Job Problem SPEAKING of unemployment, the real trouble seems to be that too many people are hunting jobs, while too few are trying to create them. It’s a wonderful idea to get on somebody’s pay roll and stay there for life, but who will provide the pay roll when everybody turns jobhunter? Communism answers, “the state," and with England harnessed to the Dole system, while Americans advocate government insurance, it looks as though Communism might be right. Some of us old fogies, however, will stick by the notion that neither the state nor society can get very far unless quite a few people enjoy the privilege and have the ambition to something for themselves. ana Mass Thinking ADMITTEDLY, there is virtue in mass thinking from an appropriative or defensive standpoint, but when it comes to leadership we are obliged to fall back on the old theory of individual initiative. The philosophy of salesman.. \ir> , is fine, provided we have someth, z new and better to sell. So, too, the philosophy of system is fine, provided we have something around which to build it. • The crowd can copy everything but individual talent. That is always a little in advance, always leading the way, always developing those new ideas and devices which form the basis of progress and prosperity. If a man by the name of Drake hadn’t drilled an oil well; if a man by the name of Edison hadn’t invented the incandescent lamp, phonograph, motion picture machine, and many other new contrivances; if two brothers by the name oil Wright hadn’t made an airplane that would really stay up, and if a thousand-and-one other individuals hadn’t thought of or discovered something different, where would we be? tt St tt A Matter of Brains DRAB, uninteresting toil on the part of us common folks is necessary and always will be, to satisfy the routine needs of life, but the climb from the jungle has been made possible by a comparatively small number who had the courage and skill to follow unblazed trails. The difference between cavemen and modern men is wholly a matter of brains, and we have found no surer way of developing brains than by emphasizing a sense of personal responsibility through the hope of personal reward.